More Vintage Loganair

Excellent thread – anymore to add. Saw some of those trackers in MRS earlier in the summer!

Shame…one of the few links left with Abbotsinch (and indeed closely linked with Loganair)……what is the post-Loganair history of the hangar? I am told that Manx/BRAL owned/leased it at one stage (although that whole Manx and post-Manx stuff is a bit of a mystery to me!)

Yeah it was closely associated and regarded as being the Loganair hangar until the infamous BRAL years of shuffled ownership and various business changes.

The last occupier was BA Citiexpress until late last year, according to a chanced upon conversation with a certain Captain Donald Sturrock of Loganair who told me it was going to be pulled down once Citiexpress moved out. I gather the latest plan is it gets another stay of execution until Loganair’s temporary flirtation with the ex-Citiexpress ATP’s come to an end ?

That hangar is earmarked for demolition I gather, to further enhance the airport’s expansion and remote parking stand project

Shame…one of the few links left with Abbotsinch (and indeed closely linked with Loganair)……what is the post-Loganair history of the hangar? I am told that Manx/BRAL owned/leased it at one stage (although that whole Manx and post-Manx stuff is a bit of a mystery to me!)

I just pushed the gamma limit up a bit to get some of the detail out of the gloom for you. You should be able to find it in Photoshop, I did it on a freeware called Irfanview. www.irfanview.com

Area 100 eh…? I remember standing in the carpark (where you’d now be sitting at your pushback point approximately) looking at the going’s on from both area 100 and the domestic pier, which is of course now obscured by the new international pier. That hangar is earmarked for demolition I gather, to further enhance the airport’s expansion and remote parking stand project.

I recall the early days of those B-Cal A310’s too, a shame the airline isn’t around anymore. Always glad to see the Trislanders and any more you have is most welcome. 😀

P.S Thanks for the Iberia 742 shot, more happy memories. :p

Couldn’t resist Moondance, hope you don’t mind? Thought I’d try and eek a bit more detail out of this shot…

Not at all – what are you using – most of the scans have need a little tweeking (I’ve got Photoshop Leading Elements, that came bundled with the scanner)
Final few….maybe time to start a ‘Vintage GLA’ thread (there’s loads more!), featuring that other ‘Scottish’ airline (in name only by the 1980s) and a mystery C-47 (no idea where it was going) plus a couple of Tri-bombers (for Ren) on Area 100.

Couldn’t resist Moondance, hope you don’t mind? Thought I’d try and eek a bit more detail out of this shot…

Agreed !

Excellent thread, and well done Moondance for getting out of bed to receive that scanner. Have you considered letting Loganair or the Scottish Museum of Flight see these pics, just might pay for that scanner? 😀

Excellent pics indeed, nice to see a pic of the Iberia 747 especially!

This has got to be one of the best threads ever on this forum. Long may it continue.

Stuning photography, and a real memory jogger. Keep ’em coming please.

Agreed !

Excellent thread, and well done Moondance for getting out of bed to receive that scanner. Have you considered letting Loganair or the Scottish Museum of Flight see these pics, just might pay for that scanner? 😀

This has got to be one of the best threads ever on this forum. Long may it continue.

Stunning photography, and a real memory jogger. Keep ’em coming please.

Magnificent photos… please post more. Such a joy to see

And finally, reciprocating pistons don’t come much more impressive than this….EFIS is for kids!

Some more from Barra (I was clearly intent on using my new polarising filter!)

And both Loganair’s Bandits, up for sale in 1984, parked out on the old Area 100 (now mostly swallowed by the International Apron).

The mystery turbo trainer was the NDN-1T Firecracker, developed by Des Norman from the piston engined NDN-1 Firecracker (pic 1 at Farnborough 1980, pic 2 at Sunderland 1981). It was a contender for the RAF trainer contract, and a small batch were used by Specialist Flying Training at Carlisle. As they were PT6 powered (same engine in the Twotter, Shed and Bandit), they occasionally nipped into Loganair for engine work.
Look what else I found – Iberia 747 in 1985, Trackers on delivery to France in 1984.

Much nicer in the summer I’m sure you’ll agree Moondance? What altitudes would you typically operate in with those Islander and Twotter trips ?

The weather could be deadful in winter, but given one of those big winter high pressures sitting over Western Scotland, and the visibility could be almost unlimited (last 4 pix all taken on the same day – see the snow on distant mountains!)
The first three must have been taken on a trip up to Shetland, looks like FL90-ish. As for the others, looks like 2000ft-ish…flying VFR you could be as low as 500ft. (sometimes required for the ambulance, when the doc specified flying as low as possible), but normally 2000-3000ft.

Excellent! 😀 Mull and Iona, two Isles that I have visited. 🙂

More top scenery from the Scottish west coast (not a dig EDI fans). I’ll be up and around there a lot in the coming months for work and will most probably be travelling by four wheels most of the time, with the exception of a Loganair trip to Benbecula for an outside broadcast in January.

Much nicer in the summer I’m sure you’ll agree Moondance? What altitudes would you typically operate in with those Islander and Twotter trips ?

A few more of the scenic variety..

1. Wick
2. Scapa Flow – note the ‘Churchill’ barriers between the islands, built after the sinking of the ‘Royal Oak’ – which still had an oil slick leaking from it in the 1980s, and which the local pilots said was actually visible from the air when weather and sea conditions were perfect.
3. Kirkwall
4 & 5 Mull
6. Iona
7. Corryvreckan whirlpool between Scarba (L) and Jura (R)..a wild bit of water!

Outstanding pictures of both planes and scenery! The coastline sure is pretty.

Fantastic Pictures! More Please

The singled engined aircraft was made by Britten Norman when the RAF needed an advanved prop trainer. The Tucano eventually one the contract