My birthday photo – Hunter arrival at Säve

There’s your answer, Bex – I knew SierraEchoFred of our Scandinavian “Aviation Mafia” would come up trumps in the end!

THank you everyone for your help, would any of you mind if I kept you pictures for a future model project? If you want to see what Ive been to recently nip over to the Models forum page and you’ll see my interpretation of 6Sqns XX119 Jaguar in its Kitty Kat colours 😀 Bex

There’s your answer, Bex – I knew SierraEchoFred of our Scandinavian “Aviation Mafia” would come up trumps in the end!

Säger som Daniel – Stort Grattis i efterskott!

Fliegerstaffel 15 of Flugwaffe 🙂

Grattis i efterskott, PL! That must have been a great day at Aeroseum (though I was lucky to see both Hunters in Rygge). Don’t know about the symbol, sorry…

Ok Its a squadron insignia for a Swiss air force unit. I have no further info.
I flew Dakota OY-BPB as PAX from Sola airport Stavanger in 1996,with AN 2 and Dakota LN-WND in close formation.

LN, thanks for trying. It is a rather nice insignia though 😀 Bex

Happy Birthday PL

Would have been a great prezzie if they were delivering it to you!!

Papa Lima & Lima November, thanks for that, and I look forward to hearing from you about it. LN, please could you tell the gentleman concerned that I think his insignia is a beautiful design and looks wonderful on his Hunter? Bex

Ok Its a squadron insignia for a Swiss air force unit. I have no further info.
I flew Dakota OY-BPB as PAX from Sola airport Stavanger in 1996,with AN 2 and Dakota LN-WND in close formation.

Happy Belated Birthday Papa Lima mate!

Lovely photo’s Papa.

I hope it was a grand day mate, and by the look’s of it :rolleyes: , well I guess ya got a wish and a surprise thrown in 😮 .

That Dak sure has had a busy life! 😀

Such an amazing aircraft type, Nearly everyday and some night’s(Sat night’s dinner fight’s are popular), I will have Dc-3’s droning with that beaut rumble right over my flat, taking off or landing on the north south at the drome.

I think it’s a wonderfull sound, that I have heard for year’s now that I have lived around the drome for about 30 year’s.

I will miss it all 🙁 ( Yes ever the growler’s:dev2: ) when the drome finally goe’s kaput 😡 which will happen one day by the look’s of thing going on over there.

I see you are as spot on as usual with the detail Papa, Thank’s so much for the effort, it’s most interesting stuff.

I wonder just how many Dak’s/Dc-3/C-47’s are still flying in the world today :confused:

It must still be a lot!!

Catch ya for now Pete mate, and many late happy wishe’s once again.

64 year’s down:) let’s hope Papa that you have at least another 46 healthy year’s to go 😉

Ooooo Roooo

CROC’S RULE’S :dev2:

Thank you for your kind thoughts – Peter (Papa Lima)

This is why I was at Säve that day – half an hour before the Hunter arrived, we of the Aeroseum were awaiting the arrival of the Danish Dakota Friends C-47 – in brilliant sunshine, but with a very ominous black cloud on the horizon!

OY-BPB History:
03-04-1944 Roll out
09-04-1944 Accepted by USAAF
14-04-1944 TCC, Baer Field, Indiana
29-08-1944 805. Base Unit, George Field, Illinois
26-04-1945 Left George Field via Nashville, Tenn. for Montreal, Canada
24-05-1945 Delivered to the Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNAF) under “Lend-Lease”
Used by RNAF until June 1946 when it was leased by RNAF to Det Norske Luftfartselskab,
DNL (The Norwegian Air Lines)
16-10-1946 Registered LN-IAT and named “Nordtind”
18-10-1946 Began scheduled flying
01-10-1948 Painted in Scandinavian Airlines System colors. Retained reg. LN-IAT but
renamed “Terje Viking”
15-12-1948 Taken over by DNL from RNAF – The price was 125,000 Norwegian kroner.
08-02-1951 Taken over by SAS
30-07-1953 Last scheduled flight for SAS
16-09-1953 Deleted from the Norwegian register
01-10-1953 Bought by the Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) from SAS – The price was
588,200 Danish kroner.
RDAF serial 68-682.
01-01-1954 To ESK 721 (Squadron 721)
02-01-1955 Painted in camouflage colors (gray/green/blue)
15-12-1960 Reregistered K-682. Radio call sign: OV-JBM
09-12-1966 Repainted in “VIP-colors”: White top, two thin black cheatlines, silver bottom,
day-glo panels on nose,
tail and wing tips.
30-07-1982 Last flight for RDAF
06-08-1982 Stored at RDAF Base Værløse
03-03-1983 Leased by Bohnstedt-Petersen A/S
31-10-1983 Returned to storage
21-02-1985 Taken over by Bohnstedt-Petersen A/S as OY-BPB. Retained RDAF colors.
Orange panels partly overpainted. Used as a company plane, but also used for pleasure flights at airshows.
25-06-1992 Taken over by The Association for Flying Museums Planes/Danish Dakota
Friends as OY-BPB.
Retained RDAF colors.
19-04-1996 Repainted in original 1946 SAS colors and named “Arv Viking”
28-08-1996 New #2 engine (very expensive – 300,000 Danish kroner)
Flying time: ca. 21000 hours
1998 Repainted to the 1966 Royal Danish Air Force scheme.

Some people always get what they deserve, happy birthday PL.

Papa Lima & Lima November, thanks for that, and I look forward to hearing from you about it. LN, please could you tell the gentleman concerned that I think his insignia is a beautiful design and looks wonderful on his Hunter? Bex

Hi Bex,
All I have found out is that it’s a Hunter F.58 owned by Oyvind Ellingsen and based at Såtenäs, Sweden (about an hour’s car drive from where I live).
Perhaps another more knowledgeable Forum member knows what the symbol means?
Come on, DanielK or Sierra Echo Fred, where are you?

Happy birthay Papa Lima.About the insignia at Mr Ellingsens Hunter I will contact him personally since I know him and give you an answer. Maybe Wingnut or TJ will be helpful too.

LimaNovember:-)

Hi Bex,
All I have found out is that it’s a Hunter F.58 owned by Oyvind Ellingsen and based at Såtenäs, Sweden (about an hour’s car drive from where I live).
Perhaps another more knowledgeable Forum member knows what the symbol means?
Come on, DanielK or Sierra Echo Fred, where are you?

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday PL, and thanks for sharing the great photo. I have a quick question, the insignia between the red ejector seat & the 82 markings, any ideas what it means?

Bex

I saw her and a sistership in Swedish nationality markings perform at Rygge Airshow today… 🙂

Happy Birthday,PL.. 🙂

happy birthday PL

Roger Smith.