Today we have a chance to see OO-VLE, having suffered an undercarriage collapse on the ground earlier in her life, she was ‘patched up’ and flown to Norwich for parting out ! Could this be one of the last views we have of this aircraft ??
Some of my views of todays visitors ….
By: Comet - 21st September 2011 at 18:07
I flew on OO-VLE in 2007 LCY-BRU with VLM. It was called “City of Southampton” back then. It is such a shame to see it end like this.
By: J31/32 - 16th September 2011 at 10:52
Presumably that is the Band Aid round the second and third windows. Wonder why it was worth restoring to airworthy condition just to have a funeral in another country?
I think the area around the windows could be where the ice shield from the prop was. It’s in the right area. The structural fix is visible on the top of the fuse made up of external stringers by the looks of it.
KLM seem to have their main handling area for F50’s at Norwich and so their parts reclamation/store/processing area could be there. Seems odd when they were produced in the Netherlands though.
By: MSR777 - 16th September 2011 at 10:26
the F27 looked better with big windows
I’ll go along with that.
By: EGTC - 15th September 2011 at 19:39
Sad news about VLE.
Nice shots though.
By: Newforest - 15th September 2011 at 17:26
Presumably that is the Band Aid round the second and third windows. Wonder why it was worth restoring to airworthy condition just to have a funeral in another country?
By: cockerhoop - 15th September 2011 at 08:59
the F27 looked better with big windows
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