Jetstream G-TEXA / N318UE Help Wanted!

All taken at Inverness in April 2008, she was just doing taxi tests

Just a couple of pictures back at base, one better interior shot.

Wheel repaired on trailer next job is to tidy up the back, getting ready for Newark!

Consul, thanks for the pictures it has stayed in remarkably good condition having been sat in a yard.
Twin Otter any AP’s would help this is a J41 and I believe the RAF version is based on the J31 but let’s have a look in June when I bring it along

The aerial photos at the top of the following link I believe show your Jetstream at Elgin after parting out and sectioning at Inverness.

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?109270-Elgin-Scrapyard-airviews-27-May-2011

Tim

I have some decent responses so far but still looking!

Si

Probably not ideal…or cheap…but this firm specialized in breaking aircraft and I’ve seen them advertise Jetstream parts in Trade-A -Plane.

http://www.whiteindustries.com/

Hi TwinOtter23

Thank you very much for your reply, and apologies also,having re-read your post, it was my misunderstanding, but as always, clutching at straws makes me this way :o,

Take care, and thanks again

Robbie

Hi TwinnOtter23, read with interest about you finding “Harrier” parts amongst your shelving at Newark, these wouldn’t be by any chance for the GR5 variant? or any thing to use on Jordan’s cockpit.
Please excuse my forwardness, as Jordan has had very little help with his project,
Thank you for your time
Robbie

Robbie,

The “Harrier material” that I was referring to is actually APs and microfiche items – sorry for any confusion. I would need to check if they’re GR.5 as I was mainly focused on Harvard information.

While there are some Harrier items in store I understand that these relate to NAM’s Sea Harrier.

Hi Simon,
Great pictures, great looking project, if poss, in the very near future, could we pop over?
Regards
Robbie

Hi TwinnOtter23, read with interest about you finding “Harrier” parts amongst your shelving at Newark, these wouldn’t be by any chance for the GR5 variant? or any thing to use on Jordan’s cockpit.
Please excuse my forwardness, as Jordan has had very little help with his project,
Thank you for your time
Robbie

I’ll refrain from asking the obvious question about an event in June and ask the following instead – would you like me to check if NAM has any APs? 😉

When I was in the archive on Friday looking for the Harvard cockpit material for Sywell I seem to recall there was some Jetstream material tucked up alongside the shelves full of Harrier material.

Brilliant thanks Viscount!

Si

Not sure what you found on the Internet regarding the history of this aircraft, there are many unverified statements and research red herrings out there!

From a usually reliable paper based source ‘Turbo Prop Aircraft Production List’, TAHS, Roach & Eastwood, 2007, with additional notes from 1995 & 2004/05 British enthusiast magazine ‘North West Air News’:

BAe. Jetstream 4100, c/no. 41041, first flight 9.11.94, marked as G-4-041. Retained ‘B conditions’ registration with British Aerospace for test flying at Prestwick (no full British civil registration allocated). Ferried Prestwick to East Midlands 13.12.94 in primer as G-4-041 and returned EMA to PIK 30.12.94 now painted in full United Express colour scheme. Departed Prestwick 14.1.95 for Reykjavik and onto Narssarssuaq (arrived 15th) then onward to USA on delivery flight to Atlantic Coast Airlines, based at Washington-Dullas who operated as part of the United Express network. Seems to be their 18th J41 (of 33 ultimately operated – which includes one that crashed soon after delivery and was replaced by another with the same registration). The 41st J41 built (including prototypes) of the 104 completed and flown.

N318UE Jetstream Aircraft Inc (of Stirling, Virgina) ownership transferred 14.1.95, Atlantic Coast Airlines (ACA) del 14.1.95. Same day sold to Coventry Aircraft and leased back by Atlantic Coast Airlines. Wfu & stored 7.04. Independence Air, new name 4.8.04. Returned off lease to Coventry Aircraft 18.02.05. Noted recently arrived into storage at Loring, Maine 26.7.04 in United Express colours – never a part of the new Independence Air operation. Moved to Galgary 10.1.07 and a further period of storage. Ferried Calgary to Inverness 19-20.3.08 still as N318UE in United Express colours with titles removed.

At which stage, the problem with paper based sources, that they date quickly concludes what I can offer immediately. But with a gap, the ownership story is taken up mostly from CAA G-INFO website:

Registered G-TEXA with Highland Airways Ltd (of Edinburgh) 2.4.08. During summer 2008 entered a period of overhaul at Inverness, but was not flown again, before entering storage. Highland Airways ceased trading 24.3.10. Sold and registered to Bravo Aviation Ltd (of Jersey) 20.8.10. Aircraft moved (when?) to a scrap dealer’s yard in Elgin for parting-out and cutting-up. De-registered with the CAA as “sold in Sweden” 16.5.11, although she never actually left Britain.

While from ‘Wrecks & Relics-23’, Ken Ellis, Crecy (2012) gather it was at initially at Inverness on return to the UK, then a scrap yard at Elgin before just the nose section being noted 3.12 with Retro Aviation, Market Drayton, Shropshire, and as noted on the OP, moved again 12.4.14 into private ownership for restoration of the nose section as a mobile display.

While this short airframe story is strong on owners, it is weak on when and where actually operated, where stored and in which commuter colours it operated. For background on ACA have a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Coast_Airlines although the entry helps little here. ACA cancelled its agreement late 2003 with United Airways to operate as a United Express company due to UA wishing to attempt to renegotiate the contract as part of their coming out of Chapter 11, which explains why the ACA Jetstream 41 fleet were all withdrawn together into store around July 2004 as the United Express operating agreement terminated.

That is as much as I can easily discover. Anyone with Air Britain News fill in the gap from 2006 using the ‘Aircraft Production’ section – especially her circa late 2007/early 2008 return to the UK?

“Pully 113” requested a ‘concise’ version of the history in his OP, this is perhaps more accurately a ‘long-winded history with gaps’ version – anyone able to fill in how/when she re-crossed the Atlantic back to the UK (whole aircraft or just fuselage?) and where she has been subsequently? Thanks.

Nice cockpit and always good to see something different.
I’m sure though I’ve seen some Jetstream glass panels on ebay from time to time, might be worth keeping an eye on there.

Rob

Fouga, see attached not my Sea King I am afraid but I am sure the new owner will let people know soon.

Not great pictures but yokes, pedals, throttles in place plus overheads. Need seats, windows and some exterior panels

Nice new toy! Any interior pictures? What’s the story on the seaking cockpit?