YS 11 restored to flight status

Good news, I don’t think these machines reached European skies, remember seeing some of these birds in the late 80’s at Medan airport in Sumatra. Thanks for posting the link.

The Hellenic Air Force operated a fleet of six, although I’m not aware of one ever making a trip to the UK.

Olympic Airlines operated them in the 1970s

As confirmed by Post 8! 😮

Olympic Airlines operated them in the 1970s

And a flock of 4 at Southend in here
http://www.abpic.co.uk/results.php?q=ys-11+england&fields=all&sort=latest&limit=50

Like the man said searching NAMC YS-11 + Europe on airliners.net gives
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=%3D%22namc+ys-11%22&airlinesearch=&countrysearch=continent%3Aeurope&specialsearch=&daterange=&keywords=&range=&sort_order=photo_id+desc&page_limit=120&thumbnails=

And as I thought there was a Norwegian operator…Mey-Air…a type I wish i’d seen

That’s a weird looking HS748!

If you look for European photos, you will find that Southend was YS.11 capital for U.K. sightings!

Here is one of my photos taken in Cario (HECA) March 1979 of YS-11A-205 N187P cn2061
Below the cockpit…”Red Sea Pacemaker”
Came from Piedmont Airlines Spring 1978

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Olympic Airways ran them for a while in the 1970s, as far as I am aware the only civil user of the type in Europe.

Great to see it flying. Those were the most powerful Darts produced, weren’t they? 3,030 shp with water injection.

One of the oddities of the YS-11 is that the window-line is lower than on other airliners, which led to much neck-cricking not repeated until decades later with the CRJ…

Many were bought by Piedmont (now part of American via US Air) and in the 80s-90s you could still see them doing small parcel flights for various outfits.

Airliners are odd, one day they’re everyplace, next day, flying examples are extinct. I never though I’d see a day without multiple 727s, but I haven’t seen one fly in years.
We know 748s are still around in Africa, any Viscounts, F-27s (not Fokker 50s), F-227s in service?

I seem to recall one was scrapped at Southend .

Good news, I don’t think these machines reached European skies, remember seeing some of these birds in the late 80’s at Medan airport in Sumatra. Thanks for posting the link.

Not in service true, but some YS-11s have appeared here, for example one was demonstrated at Farnborough and another passed through Southend for some work on it not too many years back.

Tim

During the 1970’s, Pyramid Airlines flew crew changes between Cairo and Ras Shukeir, Egypt.
Ras Shukeir was one of their many destinations.
A lot faster, etc than the DC-3’s that they also used.

Good news, I don’t think these machines reached European skies, remember seeing some of these birds in the late 80’s at Medan airport in Sumatra. Thanks for posting the link.