RAF Jetstream T1 XX500 On The Road

The RAF Jetstreams had a batch serials XX50x and the new aircraft of that type coming in to the Navy and being tested at Boscombe Down are serialed ZZ50x. 😎

Also used in all kinds of ground equipment too….. dfficult to get hold of!

IIRC most Jetstream engines are (were) leased from the French!

On Jetstreams, it often seems that the engines have more intrinsic resale value than the rest of the airframe!

I’d say that was true of many aircraft.

RAF Jetstream T1 XX500 on the road

A quick check on the Everett Aero website reveals that they have recently acquired two ex-Royal Navy Jetstream T2s. These will presumably be the ones put up for disposal in late 2010.

A photo on the Everett Aero website shows one of their recently-acquired Jetstream T2s to be XX484 (“566/CU”) and the other to be “563/CU” (serial not clearly visible). The description attached to XX484 states “last flown 11th March 2011″

XX500 was acquired in July 2005, so it looks to be a case of “one out and two in”. It will be interesting to see where XX500 turns up.

By the way, did anyone see the wings of XX500 “road running” with the engines still attached? On Jetstreams, it often seems that the engines have more intrinsic resale value than the rest of the airframe! (I’m presuming that whoever acquired the fuselage also bought the wings…)

It was London bound near Colchester.

Was it going towards, or away from Ipswich?

Bruce

I did think it might be a jet stream, but not really being up on civil types, wasn’t sure.

If it rides around wearing British serial XX500, don’t think there is much civil about it !!!!

Planemike

I had to look it up because I thought I recognised the serial number but was confusing it with XX900…

…which is a Buccaneer S2B based at Bruntingthorpe!

I did think it might be a jet stream, but not really being up on civil types, wasn’t sure.

That’s an RAF Jetstream T1 for anybody who hasn’t memorised every British military serial number! 😀