Private Jet £40K

[eharding]

Work-Shy-Wanabe said:

Okay 90K then;

http://www.aircraftdealer.com/aircraft_for_sale_de...

Sorry Ive got a day off today....


EDIT: better link here: http://www.usaaircraft.com/active/listingview.php?...

Just make sure the windows still line up and the drawers in the internal fittings don't jam.

[Work-Shy-Wanabe]

eharding said:

Work-Shy-Wanabe said:

Okay 90K then;

http://www.aircraftdealer.com/aircraft_for_sale_de...

Sorry Ive got a day off today....


EDIT: better link here: http://www.usaaircraft.com/active/listingview.php?...

Just make sure the windows still line up and the drawers in the internal fittings don't jam.

It'll polish out.....

[steve j]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

That's a very old photo' probably taken at Finningley. XS729 was one of the 11 a/c upgraded in the early 90's and was scrapped in 2007.

You can tell that is a pre-upgrade photo' because of the cabin window arrangement.

Regarding the colour scheme, Eric is not quite correct, of the 11 upgrade aircraft the only one to be delivered after conversion in the black and white scheme was XS709 (which is now in the museum at Cosford). This a/c was the last to be delivered in mid 1997, the rest were delivered in the red/white.

The first aircraft to go into the black and white scheme was XS739 which was repainted in early 1997. Some of the fleet remained in the old red and white scheme till as late as 2000.

Don`t think it`s finningley, take a look at the armament equipment in the background, including the blue 1.000 lb bomb, blue for training purposes, maybe it`s cosford ?

[Fat Albert]

I don't recall the windows in the hangar doors being blanked off like that at Finningley? I went through AAITC in '88

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

steve j said:

Don`t think it`s Finningley, take a look at the armament equipment in the background, including the blue 1.000 lb bomb, blue for training purposes, maybe it`s Cosford ?

You are quite correct, it is in fact Cosford. I was under the impression that XS729 was one of the 11 Dominies that were upgraded, when in fact it wasn't. For some reason I had transposed XS729/G with XS711/L so my notes were in error - I've just spent an hour or so going through my Logbook!

In fact I hadn't looked closely at the photo' in the link. Had I done so I would have noticed the Cosford badge just below the DV window (just forward of the roundel), and had I bothered to scroll down the page I would have noticed that the Flight Deck is of the pre-upgrade type.

Mea Culpa!

XS729 was one of 7 airframes that were delivered to Cosford as Ground Instructional Airframes in late 1996.

Cosford has a runway shorter in length than the Minimum Balanced Field Requirement for the Dominie - in other words you can get in but you can't get out again. When the jets were delivered there they were initially flown to Shawbury where they were fueled sufficiently merely for a flight to Cosford (and back to Shawbury in case of a baulked approach).