Sheds!

Yep G-BMLC still visits GCI regularly as a freighter with Emerald, retracing back to it’s days with Aurigny.

I also remember after the Gill EDI route transferrred to British Midland Commuter from LBA they operated a LBA-BRS route for a short time!

Aurigny operate G-BPFN (SH3747) at the moment as well as leasing 1 from BAC Express. I am due to fly BOH-JEY-BOH in late October, 1st time in a shed & i’m looking forward to it as long as it’s not to windy!!!!.

Thanks fro that Ren, glad that was cleared up, I didn’t see that the aircraft was de-registered.

Is this what you call a military shed? SD-330-200 C-23B Sherpa spotted last year, 21 July at Frankfort airport, Kentucky

If they parked it at the airbase gate would it be a “guardin shed”?

I thought it was with Aurigny, I just looked on the G-INFO site.

De-registered in the UK in 1998 and off to Sweden according to G-INFO

I thought it was with Aurigny, I just looked on the G-INFO site.

Well, G-OAAS is with Aurigny…

It left Aurigny many years ago. Does anyone know where it is?

From memory, the following were the Gill Shorts (during my service)
G-BNYI, G-RMCT, G-DASI, G-OLAH, G-BLZT, G-KBAC, G-BHHU (330), G-BIOE (330) AND G-BVMX (in the thread above) looks familiar too – can anyone else confirm?

The routes that Gill used the Shorts on, again during my service, were: NCL/BHD, NCL/ABZ, ABZ/WIC, MME/ABZ, EDI/LBA, PIK/BHD. And at one point, NCL/MAN AND NCL/LGW I believe. The 330 was more or less out of service when I joined Gill in 1997 but it was used on pax services occasionally when absolutely necessary.

So, for me, it was from one airline with 330’s (Shorts) to another with 330’s (Airbus, of course!!) 😀

Well, G-OAAS is with Aurigny, G-BVMX looks like it’s been de-registered in America, and G-BMLC is with Emerald Airways.

Can anyone tell me where G-OAAS, G-BVMX and G-BMLC are now?

US Army Shorts

Is this what you call a military shed? SD-330-200 C-23B Sherpa spotted last year, 21 July at Frankfort airport, Kentucky

Thanks for clearing that up EGNM!

Indeed Gill did. It was head office and aircraft that operated passenger routes during the day were often reconfigured to fly mail routes during the night, and then reconfigured again in the early hours ready for a full days passenger flying.

I think that Gill did, I can vaugley remember some at NCL, I know there was one at Teesside routing ABZ-MME.

You’ll never guess what Silver Snapper, after reading this on Tuesday, I saw one of these BAC boxes on approach into NCL!

Didn’t Gill have some based there.? :confused:

Apparently there’s a couple of US military sheds on the way to PIK right now as part of the big joint forces-NATO excercises off the Scottish west coast. My PIK friends are keeping my informed and their lenses trained.

You’ll never guess what Silver Snapper, after reading this on Tuesday, I saw one of these BAC boxes on approach into NCL!

ATC: TWA??? give way to the Shots330 ahead

TWA???: That’s an aeroplane?. Thought that was a choc!!!

Have to laugh at that very funny jethro15 😀

G-BMLC was in fact an ex-Loganair machine – in fact it seens to be ex several UK airlines! It still even has the reminants of the Aurigny “A” on its tail!

The Shed certainly is a unique aircraft, especially as it has 2 seperate doors for each crew member to enter the cockpit in!

24 posts on a thread relating to the Shorts SD3-30, and nobody has mentioned the classic Heathrow ATC exchange:

ATC: TWA??? give way to the Shorts330 ahead

TWA???: That’s an aeroplane?. Thought that was a choc!!!