Aviation News - May 2016

on the nose with each one representing a city visited on its first North America tour in 1986. The two camera symbols are for tw ...

the bomb bay doors, which currently feature the names of over two dozen veterans, the aircraft they served on, numbers of missio ...

Jumbo Fan I was disappointed to read in the April issue that the production rates for the Boeing 747 are to be cut to just 0.5 a ...

T he story of Pan Am’s McDonnell Douglas DC-10s starts with National Airlines, a domestic US carrier based in Miami, Florida. In ...

While not a perfect  t Pan Am’s biggest international hub was New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport, whereas National ...

COUNTING THE COST With an already weak balance sheet, this was an enormous burden and assets were soon being shed to shore up Pa ...

them as the other US domestic carriers and grounded eight in 1974, converted them to freighters and sold them to Trans Mediterra ...

ABERDEEN 4/2 M-GETS PC-12. 9/2 VQ-BSO Falcon 7X. 14/1 VQ-BSF Falcon 7X. 17/2 C-FFIJ Global 5000. 21/2 D-BADA Do 328-310 ADAC. 22 ...

86N Neos. 17/2 1225 C-17A UAE Air Force; TF-FXI Dash 8-Q402 Air Iceland for painting. 18/2 N902AR 744-428FER Centurion Air Cargo ...

Air Canada f/v; D-AEWA A320-214(SL) Eurowings f/v; HB-VWZ Citation 510 Mustang. 4/3 A7-BCZ 787-8 Qatar Airways f/v; EC-MJR A321- ...

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RAF BRIZE NORTON 1/2 ZJ994/AC Merlin HC3i 845 NAS, RN; KAF327 C-130J-30 41 Sqn, Kuwait AF dep 3rd. 3/2 ZZ417 Shadow R1 14 Sqn, R ...

CLASSIFIEDS Aviation News May 2016^73 WEB DVDS WANTED WANTED ENTHUSIAST’SFAIRS ENTHUSIASTS SOCIETIES PHOTOS UNMADE PLASTIC KITS, ...

REGISTER REVIEW BY STUART MCDIARMID 74 Aviation News incorporating Classic Aircraft May 2016 AgustaWestland AW169 G-KSST (c/n 69 ...

G-SPVI 406FCF SOCATA TB20 Trinidad GT 2168 SW Parker, Trustee of Teegee Group, Nottingham City Airport, Nottinghamshire G-SSXL 4 ...

G-GMPB Britten-Norman BN-2T-4S Defender 4000 4011 Re-registered as G-WPNS G-GOBT Colt 77A 1815 Cancelled as Permanently WFU (Cof ...

COLD WAR FLASHBACKFLASHBACK MAY 1988 W hen looking through my logs covering the past 40 years it is noticeable that the number o ...

again for the 1988 edition with the base receiving more than 60 USAFE  ghter aircraft from 12 squadrons. Launching from their h ...

The exchange ran from April 25 for ten days and when I visited the weather was poor. All eight jets were parked outside on the m ...

Aggressor Squadron. During May, F-15C Eagles of the 57th Fighter Interceptor Squadron from Ke avík, Iceland, were a continuous ...