Great set of photo’s and the 5th and 6th down say it all for me.

Thanks for posting and giving a low down on the demise of the 1_11s.

I was there years ago when Jet Heritage was looking after the classic jet collection there.Adrian Gjertsen was the main man there on the flying side.

Do the Bond helicopters still fly out of there?

Thanks for posting photos….:)JB

I don’t think I have noticed Bond Helicopters but I am not a serious airport visitor. My boyfriend and I sometimes visit an airport. He likes the big, noisy jets. There was a helicopter there when we visited in the mid 2000s – I would call it a Hughes 269 but it might be properly called a Sikorsky 300 these days. But I feel that Bond flew a fleet of high tech aircraft rather than a little beater so maybe they’ve moved elsewhere. Never seen any serious rotor wing hardware there.

There is a whole bunch of expensive executive jets in and out of there, like the Falcon 50 and lots of them have M- registrations, which I looked up on the internet and it is Isle of Mann registry.

There was at least one SABENA 737 series 200 being taken apart there (Delta Golf I believe). They semi-merged with Swissair and then Swissair went under taking SABENA along. And on the rear fuselage of this 737 was written…

‘Flying Together with Swissair’

And that didn’t do SABENA much good, with their 737s all cut up because of that ‘merger’… 🙁