The M- is temp while in possession of the owner before official reassigning to a new operator on lease..a sort of between leases exercise to close off one deal and open another

This has happened with a few airliners but they don’t fly in airline service with the M- reg

G-JEDI has been withdrawn from use

You seem to imply they won’t take the type at all, but as I read it they will not take delivery of the aircraft due on Monday and pulling out of the delivery ceromony. I think they are saying they won’t take it until the issues are sorted rather than never and have withdrawn there staff because at the moment there is no pint in keeping them there until a base to move on is achived.

As you say…time will tell

OK

But why is that a mistake?

A mistake being something done that shouldn’t have been

That was probably correct to add it at the time of painting and when it gets prepared for service will be removed.

If it was current when painted it would have been a mistake to leave it off.

I doubt if someone would have been taken off more important duties to run round updating a livery that’s going nowhere for a little while.

Garry

The Freighter in Argentina is the only Mk.1 to survive.

With a 21 in Australia and a handful of 31s it only leaves the Superfreighter as the only major variant without any examples with the last scrapped in 1975.
There were other subvariants like Wayfarers that have gone, but at least he three major types still exist.

I was thinking along those lines too..can’t think of any other BEA Viscounts wrecked at Heathrow…not in any major way.

The BEA Viscount (G-AMOK) that hit the construction equipment was repaired so I doubt it was in that yard, unless they stored it there until Marshalls picked it up for the rebuild.

Garry

Looks like a model…with a fully fuctioning radio controlled scale replica aeroplane:p