Aide moi – encore! I am trying to trace the history of Nord 1002 F-BFKA (c/n 196). It was exported to the UK in 1967. A.J.Jackson says it went to a private museum near Bath in 1973. The CAA website (G-INFO) indicates that it was exported to the USA in 1976. The FAA website does not appear to contain details of previous identities of aircraft registered in the USA and I have not found any other source of information which does. So does anyone know if F-BFKA went to the USA in 1973 and, if so:
– whether it assumed a US registration
– what was history in the USA
– whether it exists today.
Alternatively, if someone can point me to a website which lists previous identities of US registered aircraft and which can be searched against make & model, I’d be very grateful to them for I can then try to do the job myself!
By: quicksilver51 - 18th May 2010 at 20:04
Mea culpa!
I was the photographer of this Nord 1002 at the Trago Mills site at Stover, near Newton Abbot on 28 March 1970. How I wish I’d paid more attention – and taken more pictures! Interestingly, my log-book originally showed the c/n as being 283, which at some point I have over-written as 196. No recollection of that of course, but I was a number-collector back then, and I may have re-written history so that I could claim G-AVJS as a “cop”! I can only assume that I read the c/n off the airframe, but I regret that after all this time I can’t remember much about seeing it.
I wonder if the c/n of the Trago Mills Pingouin was really 283, and the G-AVJS connection was erroneous?
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