Really surprised to hear they are going to leave the entire jet market. Their Hawker 4000 is barely 10 years old?

A report came out by the government accounting office (presumably the same one defence-aerospace quotes from) that says it is more expensive to pull out of the JSF then to continue with it. The same report also says that the air force will have to scale back ambitions unless they get more money. Minister Hillen has gone on record saying there is budget for at least 56 JSFs.

There are no An-24s with winglets. You’ve seen a bunch of Chinese made Y-7K, a further development of the An-24. If I am not mistaken the winglet’ed versions are only used by the Chinese military. I don’t believe the civilian Y-7 has winglets.

If it’s a genuine question, I’d suggest to google the registration. If it’s some sort of competition, I’d suggest to blank out the registration.

http://www.aerovintage.com/N1042B.htm

BTW, I realised it was a B-25 before Googling, and while I was not sure I already guessed it would be for aerial photography / film. You’ll have to fill in the year yourself.

Its over 3 years old and has really been well used, I have had a quote of around £150 to have repaired and will do so around Christmas time.
In the meantime I have a new toy a 650D.

Three years is not really old for a camera.

Congrats on the new toy. I’ve got myself a new setup as well: 7D, 100-400L and 24-105L: courtesy of having a decent insurance and an indecent thief.

apparently both crew ejected. good news i hope

Most sources so far mention both crew ejected safely and are without unjuries. Only the NOS reports that one of the crew has sustained minor injuries.

An eye witnesses (spotter) reported seeing the formation fly over when the second plan from the right suddenly had a burst of fire followed by a lot of smoke. Not long afterwards the plane crashed, but by then the pilots where already out.

It’s indeed a Breitling plane that crashed. Tail number 2, so that should make it ES-YLS.

Yes, off the top of my head they have a Boeing-Vertol CH-44 and a Mitchell B-25 in the collection. I presume there are other types.

There’s also a Bell P-63 Kingcobra and a Douglas A-20. There are also a handfull WW1 planes: including Fokker Dr.1, Voisin La.5 and a Sopwith Triplane.

Perhaps a bit surprising not to find more western stuff, considering that pretty much every aviation museum in the west has at least a Mig-21. But most of the planes in their collection where gifts, so I suppose noone bothered to gift them a Starfighter, F-4 or Mirage.

I’ve been there two weeks ago. The most westernly row of planes still has a lot of tall grass. That’s the row with the larger transport planes. The rest is kept low.

In fact, the planes are finally being repainted now. The helicopters have been repainted (the Mi-6 and Mil V-12 where in the process of repainting during our visit). Several of the fighters on the most southernly row have also been repainted.

There have also been a few new additions. These include a Tu-22M (there are now two of them), an Il-76 and several (incomplete) fighters. Just outside the museum a Tu-95 has been parked which can be seen from the museum grounds.

I intend to upload some photos to my website in the next few days. I’ll post a link here when done.