Aviation News - May 2016

Boeing’s prototype 727, N7001U, made

its  nal  ight on March – a 15-minute

ferry trip from Paine Field to Boeing Field,

Washington state.

Named Spirit of Seattle, it was officially

retired in 1991 and donated to the Museum

of Flight by United Airlines. Volunteers have

been overhauling the airliner ever since at

the museum’s Restoration Center & Reserve

Collection at Paine Field.

The last  ight, made under a special

permit, had pilot Tim Powell and co-pilot

Mike Scott at the controls. They were joined

by  ight engineer Ralph Pascale and safety

officer Bob Bogash.

The tri-jet is currently on display in the

Museum of Flight’s Airpark but is due to be

placed in the new Aviation Pavilion later this

year. Joe G Walker

Former Royal Navy Lynx HAS3 XZ721 has arrived at East Midlands Aeropark at East Midlands

Airport after being acquired by Mark Lindsay. The helicopter was acquired from Air & Ground

near Hixon, Staffordshire, on February 22 and transported by road to the Aeropark four days

later. A Falklands veteran, XZ721 was built in 1980, serving for 20 years before being placed in

storage in 2010. Mark Lindsay

Anson Bound

for Greece

The fuselage of a 1941 Avro Anson Mk.I

AX246 has left its temporary storage at

Leeds East Airport on a truck bound for a

new home in Greece.

It is joining a museum dedicated to

the Hellenic Air Force and will represent

an aircraft used in Greece following its

liberation after World War Two.

The  rst part of the move involved the

fuselage frame, gun turret, one Cheetah

engine and various parts, including the

distinctive ‘bubble’ engine cowlings to Athens.

The empennage and centre section of

the Yeadon-built Mk.19 Anson, G-AGPG,

followed a week later and will eventually

be mated to the restored fuselage, and

painted to represent an early post-war

Hellenic AF Anson. Ken Cothliff

PRESERVATION

16 Aviation News incorporating Classic Aircraft May 2016

First Air Force One Flies Again

Final Flight for Prototype 727

Lockheed C-121A Constellation Columbine II returned to the skies on March 19, bound for its new home in Bridgewater, Virginia. This was the

 rst presidential aircraft to  y under the ‘Air Force One’ callsign when Dwight D Eisenhower was President of the US. It has been purchased by

Dynamic Aviation and was  own from Marana, Arizona, where it had been stored, to the company’s Virginia home via a stop at the Mid America

Flight Museum in Mount Pleasant, Texas. Dynamic Aviation will now fully restore the aircraft, with the aim of presenting it on the airshow circuit.

Tyson V Rininger

Prototype Boeing 727 N7001U at the Museum of Flight after its  nal  ight on March 2. Joe G Walker

Lynx Arrives at Aeropark

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