The Flypast Beagle B206 G-FLYP landed at Shoreham yesterday afternoon with several fire appliances in attendance , having evidently had an engine problem when inbound from Le Havre.
What’s the story?
Hopefully it will not be too expensive to get it back into the air again.
Wicked Willip :diablo:
By: Beagle_Gent - 9th January 2021 at 01:01
Greetings All!
I still own the Beagle B206 Series one (CC Mk1 ex-RAF)
and would like to either sell/trade it or attempt to repair.
I have a spare crated engine as well as all manuals for service manufacturing and operation and logs going back to it’s beginning.
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Rick
By: Newforest - 23rd April 2011 at 08:25
Yes, it is great news, but why do our Forum sponsors both here and in print seem to be so coy in divulging the details of problems, progress and successes? A historic machine operated by a historic publication should be more open, I think.
By: low'n'slow - 23rd April 2011 at 07:36
Great to see it back in the air again, and all credit to those who have put in the hard work to make it possible.
I and I’m sure a few others, had assumed the worst when we heard of its engine problems a few years ago. Delighted to see that you’ve persevered when many others would have given up.
By: Seymour Seaward - 21st April 2011 at 16:16
G-FLYP flies!
By: Newforest - 3rd October 2010 at 09:00
PT-IQH originally G-AWLN. Interesting that the CAA registration card showed it initially as a series 2 and this was crossed out and series 3 substituted.
C-GBGL, c/n 074 went the other way, from a series 3 to a series 2 and was cancelled from the register in 1998.
By: Auster Fan - 2nd October 2010 at 22:15
Possibly, although one book I have seems to indicate that B.074 was the prototype as G-35-28, plus the only other one (B.080 – as shown), but see the list below…
By: Newforest - 2nd October 2010 at 22:01
You are correct, the one and only series 3, ten seater, unless you know different? 🙂
By: Auster Fan - 2nd October 2010 at 19:04
One of the few Beagle 206 Series 3?
By: Newforest - 1st October 2010 at 16:16
It would appear to be a B.206, s/n B.080, PT-IQH in healthy condition, but it is not on the UK register is it?! 😉
By: Moreorless - 1st October 2010 at 15:40
Anyone tell us what this is – apparently still active in Brasil?
By: Newforest - 1st October 2010 at 15:19
Well there’s the cat among the pigeons, who would be qualified to answer?:confused:
By: britfrog - 1st October 2010 at 12:24
the biggest mistake made with the flypast a/c was putting it on the uk register under current caa policy anyone with a twin or even large single needs to have their head read if they stay with the CAA.
I have flown the b206 N181WW many times and have helped maintain it for many years so know the enormity of the work involved in keeping it airworthy if you then have to maintain it according to CAA requirements it would be far cheaper to operate a small airliner.
However I know of two large sources of spare parts. engine parts are easy, series 1 props are rarer than hens teeth but there are only 2 new and 1 damaged in existance, hence the us plane which has been for sale for some years.
By: mike currill - 21st March 2010 at 01:02
The 206 is a notoriously difficult and expensive aircraft to operate and all credit to Key for keeping this one alive.
If it were to be fitted with alternative engines, not being a permit aircraft, the mountain of paperwork and associated costs would exceed the aircraft’s operational ceiling and it would also no longer be an authentic preserved aircraft.
Educated guesses only.
Moggy
Only just had another look at this thread and I with you about the credit Key deserve for keeping her alive and the fact that it would no longer be authentic if the engines were changed for something easier to obtain spares for. I had forgotten about her not being a permit aircraft and the amount of paperwork changing the type of engines would cause. Something about the paperwork equaling the weight of the aircraft comes to mind or in the case of what constitutes a major mod probably three times the MTOW.
By: Beagle_Gent - 21st February 2010 at 18:35
I have a Series 1 in need of repair. I do have a spare crated engine.
I would very much like to repair this aircraft to flight status or sell it to someone who can.
It was XS-781.
More Info at:
ignore the asking price, if there is still one on the page. Also, the aircraft was moved shortly after the photos and now sits on the tarmac. I would accept flying trades as well.
Thanks,
Rick
By: EGTC - 18th August 2009 at 03:01
Is G-FLYP based at Cranfield?
I’d love to get a few photographs of G-FLYP when shes there.
By: Seymour Seaward - 18th August 2009 at 00:45
G-FLYP got up and flew back to Cranfield yesterday afternoon!!:)
By: EK764 - 27th May 2009 at 05:31
Beagle to fly again! This is great news. Who is responsible for its continued airworthiness? This is the same engine used to power Cessna’s 404 and 421 models.
By: Willip26 - 25th May 2009 at 13:38
Great news there!
According to G-INFO, G-BSET was withdrawn permanently in 2004 and presumably is still at Cranfield?
Hope so, or maybe it is one of the ones that moved on to Boscombe Down as per post18#?
Wicked Willip :diablo:
By: Newforest - 25th May 2009 at 07:30
Great news there!
According to G-INFO, G-BSET was withdrawn permanently in 2004 and presumably is still at Cranfield?
By: Willip26 - 24th May 2009 at 23:14
10 months on from its unhappy incident and seeing the B206 sinking further and further into the long grass at Shoreham I was beginning to wonder if G-FLYP would ever move again under its own power.
Pleasing to be able to report therefore that within the past two weeks the removed engine and prop have been re-installed and the aircraft now looks set for hopefully many more flying hours.
Anybody know by the way whatever happened to G-BSET?
Wicked Willip :diablo:
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