Twin Otter in Cotswolds

Where ever you encounter them they seldom seem to be idle unless they are in maintenance. Real workhorses.

My only previous experience of Twin Otters was to do with those of Talair in PNG during the 1970s. See:

http://www.twinotterarchive.com/164_P2-RDG_unk_011987_mjo_1024a.jpg

What I saw last week looked very like that one (from a distance) which is why I thought of Twin Otter. However it was most likely to have been Islander G-BCEN. Thanks everyone,
Jim

It hasn’t always. For about three years it was conducted at Kidlington, after that it transferred to Marshall’s of Cambridge.

A type that I’m fond of and here’s one of the Survey aircraft @ Duxford pictured in this thread at the end of April 2014 http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?128152-Duxford-Diary-2014&p=2134522#post2134522 🙂

The weekend before one of the British Antarctic Survey Twotters was hangared at Staverton, these are all red. The spend the summer in the UK and the winter in the Antarctic when they have their summer.

Surprised that one of the Twotters was in the UK as winter maintenance has always been conducted by Rocky Mountain Aircraft of Alberta Canada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Antarctic_Survey

If BAS haven’t changed their colour scheme the top surfaces of the aircraft were black to make them easier to find if they go down in the snow.

Could have been the Islander, Tony as I’m pretty sure it wasn’t all-over red. It was quite a distance away when I spotted it but first thought was Twin Otter.

There was a BAS Twin Otter at Duxford the Tuesday before last.

It wouldn’t be the RVL Islander out photo mapping would it?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/108238488@N03/14503492701/

Thanks guys,
Jim

Possibly VP-FAZ which was heading east on the airway at 10,000ft towards Bournemouth last Wednesday

Steve

The weekend before one of the British Antarctic Survey Twotters was hangared at Staverton, these are all red. The spend the summer in the UK and the winter in the Antarctic when they have their summer.