Jetstream retirement date BROUGHT FORWARD!!!

[Chough]

Sorry to see the Jetstreams go, they have served the Fleet Air Arm for many a day.

Any idea when the King Airs are due to take over at CU ?

[ridgmeister]

Does anyone know if any special marks/scheme are likely to be applied? I'm guessing not, as RAF's Dominies went without any.
I may come down for the flypast, if the date is known, so I'll watch here.
Thanks to those who have already added info.
Cheers
Paul

[T_J]

Reports of up to 3 Jetstream at Manston wearing N registrations destined for the US.

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TJ

[nickel_55]

they flew a 6 ship Practice today at around 15:30

XX487 / ZA111 / XX486 (corrected serial)
XX476 / XX478 / XX481

No Special marks though i wasnt in the best of positions but manages a shot or t2o

Regards
Colin

[buzzer]

they flew a 6 ship Practice today at around 15:30

XX487 / ZA111 / XX488
XX476 / XX478 / XX481

No Special marks though i wasnt in the best of positions but manages a shot or t2o

Regards
Colin

thay did look good in formation.. don't think i have ever seen a 6 ship of jetstreams.. not even back in the days of the good old mass flypast to open airdays really nice to see them all to geather..
but was it a practice today? or the final mass flypast,with the last flight being friday?? bearing in mind that flying normal stops on a friday around lunch time

[nickel_55]

i wasnt in the best spot with the sun position ( carpark at Lidls in Helston ) but luckily the camera wasnt to far from hand.


Regards
Colin

[buzzer]

you did well to get any photo down there well done
still think it will be a sad day to see them go does'nt seem that long ago (20+ years ago!!)that i would be walking to school to the drone from the jetstreams on full chat about to start there takeoff run happy days

[nickel_55]

Me too

Luckily i heard themm call for Taxiing ont he scanner so got myself to the airfield quick!


much happier with todays pictures

Regards
Colin

[MarkS]

Wow another Truro based spotter !
Depends which runway they're using . 12 was always my favorite for photos ,parking on degibna lane and walking up to the approach.
I would love to be there today , but shall be at work in Redruth - unless I can find a way to disappear for a couple of hours !
Cheers, Mark

[egte]

Do we know which 6 flew today? I saw them fly-by Exeter at around 1100.

[BringBackEGDG]

Todays 6 ship XX481/CU-560 XX476/CU-561 XX478/CU-564 ZA111/CU-565 XX486/CU-567 XX487/CU-568

XX481 I believe is going to Hurn on Monday for a photo shoot with one of the King Air's returning to CU around 1400 this will almost certainly be the last flight by a 750 NAS Jetstream T2.

[buzzer]

vey said day but the boys put on a cracking tight formation
was'nt a bad day for a bit of spotting,even though i was 5 miles away from the CU..
jetstream in the morning, FOST Dauphin and METMAN BAe 146 in the afternoon.

[Chough]

Sounds as though that could well be Henry Orchard's scrap yard. based not far from the entrance to the Eden Project. They had a Nimrod to scrap if memory serves me correctly plus a Canberra both from St. Mawgan some years ago.

[buzzer]

Sounds as though that could well be Henry Orchard's scrap yard. based not far from the entrance to the Eden Project. They had a Nimrod to scrap if memory serves me correctly plus a Canberra both from St. Mawgan some years ago.

i went up there years ago..(back in the 90s) and he had just cleaned up some airframes from St.Mawgan..
there was the remains of a canberra,a comet(and yes it was a comet not a Nimrod,no upper window above the cockpit.it us to be on the dump..) and an andover..?? god knows were that had come from???
plus about 10 large wood box's with BRAND NEW wessex rotor heads in it!!! all for scrap!
i'll see if i can dig out the old photos i got..
on the jetstream front.. any ideas when the scrapping starts spingo???