Coventry 17/5/03

Reeve Aleutian also operated NAMC YS11’s at one time – I have photo’s of them somewhere at Anchorage

Originally posted by dan330
The Learjet LX-ONE gets about the UK a bit by the looks of it, got it at MAN the other week.

Very nice colours!

yea i saw LX-ONE on 26/10/02 in Malaga – taxiing out in front of the Atlanta 461!

Yes, mainly cargo, some pax otherwise general aviation. Flying clubs etc.

Great Pics there Kev, once again! 😀

Im looking forward to seeing the Atlantique Airlines DC-3 at Biggin hill in a few weeks.

Coventry, does it maily cater for Cargo then?

Cheers Kev. 🙂

The Learjet LX-ONE gets about the UK a bit by the looks of it, got it at MAN the other week.

Very nice colours!

Mongu, it is a Convair 440 i think.It was bought from a Portugese
freight company.I seem to remember it either has an engine problem or an undercarraige problem, perhaps both.
Incidentally i believe the Electras are operated without a flight engineer.

Sorry, didn’t see the Learjet. The other Electra’s outside 7 shed are G-LOFD (no engines or tail control surfaces, N9744C and an ex
Fred Olsen example(no reg). You may have seen G-FIJR making some noise out on the compass base round about 13.00 yesterday.

Atlantic only got 2 Reeve L188’s, N1968R was sold to Air Spray in Canada last year. The ATR-42 has been added to the Atlantic Express fleet as the company is expanding its passenger work.

Davej.

Thanks for that information. Presumably the two Reeve Electras near the hangars are N1968R and N9744C? Atlantic are operating a really diverse fleet now. Did you see the silver Learjet by the Business Aviation Centre? It was registered LX-ONE but I couldn’t get a picture.

Regards,

kev35

I wondered about G-IONA when I saw those pics ? She was still working for Highland Express when I took the pic below the other week at Glasgow.

I don’t think even Highland Express had her for long as the barely altered American Eagle scheme suggests ?

I was there on site too yesterday.

Some more info for you.

The Brasilia EMB 120 is operated by Atlantic Express. They have two aircraft on lease D-CAOA and D-CAOB.

The L188 is N2RK ex N187RV and I belive is being used by the company at the moment, hence the ‘Reeve Illusion’ titles.

Reeve did have three L188’s on the books when they went under.
N187RV, N1968R and N9744C.

The ATR-42 next the L188 is G-IONA. Which has been transfered from Highland Airways to Atlantic Express.

Hope this is of use.

Wysiwyg.

Thanks for that. I hadn’t a clue what the blue finned aircraft was. It’s been a good number of years since I used to haunt airports. Could be persuaded to take it up again though.

Regards,

kev35

I think the piston twins in the last picture are a DC3, Twin Pioneer, Sea Prince and a Convair 440.

The blue finned aircraft earlier on is an Embraer Brasilia.

Reeve Aleutian went bust a few years ago I think. As there are hardly any L-188 operators around these days, it seems sensible that Atlantic acquired some of their aircraft.

On a sidenote:

When I was about 12 or 13, I was determined (!) to be a pilot. I wrote off to lots of airlines, including Atlantic. They gave me a freebie ride on a DC-3! I was thrilled and when I got another freebie (2 hours with Monarch’s chief pilot in their 757-200 simulator) he was envious of me. Wonderful times for a kid!

Well done with the snaps Kev, they are very interesting and a refreshing change to the usual 747s from airliners.net

PS – does anyone know what the piston twin on the last photo is? It looks like some sort of Convair but I’m not sure.

You have the correct spelling, kev, I was trying to figure out was it was! They duly used that same blue and red stripe colour scheme.

Greekdude.

So the airline name was originally spelled ‘Reeve Aleutian’? These three Electras carried the title ‘Reeve Illusion.@ I guess Atlantic have acquired them either to operate alongside their own Electras or as spares ships. Thanks for that.

Regards,

kev35

Reeve Alleution is/was based in Alaska. They fly along their namesake island chain and operated the Electra up until a few years ago. I’m not sure if they’re still around, if they are, I know they had some 727’s in their fleet along with the electra’s.

Another general view.

Regards,
kev35

Reeve Illusion again

What type is the Omega aircraft with th blue tail?

Does anyone know anything about the Reeve Illusion aircraft? There were three there.