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used the type until ceasing operations in
July 1992.
In April 1986 Leeds/Bradford Airport-
based Brown Air introduced a single
Gulfstream I onto Leeds/Bradford-Glasgow
and Glasgow-Cardiff services, and, during
its rst year of operations, this aircraft was
ying up to 50 sectors each week. The
aircraft served this carrier, and the also
when it was renamed Capital Airlines, until
September 1988.
From September 1986 until September
1987 Birmingham European Airways
(originally Birmingham Executive Airways)
used three 24-seat Gulfstreams on services
from its home base to Düsseldorf and
Frankfurt.
The Gulfstream I undoubtedly changed
the face of corporate ying and the aircraft
has proven long-lived. Last December, it
was estimated that around 38 exampleswere still active, mainly in the USA, but also
in South Africa and Mexico.
Almost certainly the most proli c operator
was the Cartersville, Georgia-based Phoenix
Air Group, which still had ve aircraft
available for charter, and had operated 19different examples at various times with the
peak in the early 2000s.
As jets became more popular Grumman
responded to the emerging demand from
large corporations for aircraft that offered
the speed and prestige of jet propulsion.
One proposal was the G-159A project, a
stretched version of the Gulfstream with
two wing-mounted Lycoming ALF-502 fanjet
engines, in place of the Dart turboprops.
This design would have been capable
of carrying 30 passengers at 368mph
(592km/h) at an altitude of 30,000ft, and
was intended to be produced alongside the
turboprop variant.
In the event, the design was rejected
and work on the jet-powered Gulfstream
GII began in 1960 which featured two rear-
mounted engines. The GII rst ew in 1966
and the original Gulfstream became the
Gulfstream I.82 Aviation News incorporating Jets April 2018Below: Birmingham European Airways, and
used Gulfstream Is, including G-BMOW,
on services to Düsseldorf and Frankfurt.
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