2Excel Boeing 727 Oil Response Quit Teeside

[hammo19]

Rumours that 2 Excel's Boeing 727 Oil Response aircraft have moved out of Teeside Airport after they moved there from Doncaster. Anyone have any news on this? Where have they gone?

[aeropilot]

hammo19 said:

Rumours that 2 Excel's Boeing 727 Oil Response aircraft have moved out of Teeside Airport after they moved there from Doncaster. Anyone have any news on this? Where have they gone?

From what I've seen mentioned elsewhere, one has returned to 2Excel's base airfield at Lasham, and the other one has gone to somewhere in the middle east.

[hammo19]

aeropilot said:

From what I've seen mentioned elsewhere, one has returned to 2Excel's base airfield at Lasham, and the other one has gone to somewhere in the middle east.

Interesting, I wonder if that’s a temp or permanent move? It’s all been done a bit quietly.

[r3g]

hammo19 said:

Rumours that 2 Excel's Boeing 727 Oil Response aircraft have moved out of Teeside Airport after they moved there from Doncaster. Anyone have any news on this? Where have they gone?

Yah. G-OSRA went Teesside to Lasham on 12/7 and is still there. G-OSRB flew out to Djibouti a couple of weeks back. Flies back overnight tonight, to Souda Bay Air Base then arrives in Southend tomorrow afternoon to clear customs. Dunno what the plan for is it from there.

They may be consolidating ops at Lasham as they already have an MRO there.

Edited by r3g on Tuesday 8th August 00:00

[RouseyD]

OSRB was on a standby response job which has now concluded.

New base for the OSRL aircraft is Southend.

[r3g]

Looks like it's stuck in Djibouti. Didn't fly back today. Maybe try again tomorrow .

[DrDeAtH]

RouseyD said:

OSRB was on a standby response job which has now concluded.

New base for the OSRL aircraft is Southend.

Yup, they've been kitting out their hangar over the last couple of weeks

[DrDeAtH]

G-OSRB now at Southend. Landed an hour ago.

[BigS]

G-OSRB flew into Cardiff on Wednesday morning.

I was in St Fagans at the time and it did 3 passes overhead. Only caught brief glimpses of it through the clouds, but could certainly hear it coming!
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-osrb...

Looks like it flew back to Southend in the afternoon, after a detour into the Bristol Channel
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-osrb...

[DP14]

r3g said:

G-OSRB flew out to Djibouti a couple of weeks back.

Presumably it was the aircraft mentioned in this interesting event: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/2...