Post by viscount on Apr 13, 2014 12:37:15 GMT 1
On another forum, nwan member "TonkaZD938" requests information on Jetstream 41 nose section of N318UE/G-TEXA which has just been acquired, joining his Tornado front sections. Photos can be found on: forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?129681-Jetstream-G-TEXA-N318UE-Help-Wanted!
I have researched what I can find of the history of this aircraft, that had only a little under 10 years of service, with just the one operator. What I have come up with so far:
From a usually reliable paper based source 'Turbo Prop Aircraft Production List', TAHS, Roach & Eastwood, 2007, with additional notes from 1995 & 2004/05 British enthusiast magazine 'North West Air News':
BAe. Jetstream 4100, c/no. 41041, first flight 9.11.94, marked as G-4-041. Retained 'B conditions' registration with British Aerospace for test flying at Prestwick (no full British civil registration allocated). Ferried Prestwick to East Midlands 13.12.94 in primer as G-4-041 and returned EMA to PIK 30.12.94 now painted in full United Express colour scheme. Departed Prestwick 14.1.95 for Reykjavik and onto Narssarssuaq (arrived 15th) then onward to USA on delivery flight to Atlantic Coast Airlines, based at Washington-Dullas who operated as part of the United Express network. Seems to be their 18th J41 (of 33 ultimately operated - which includes one that crashed soon after delivery and was replaced by another with the same registration). The 41st J41 built (including prototypes) of the 104 completed and flown.
N318UE Jetstream Aircraft Inc (of Stirling, Virgina) ownership transferred 14.1.95. Same day sold to Coventry Aircraft and leased by Atlantic Coast Airlines. Left UK 14.1.95 on delivery to USA for Atlantic Coast Airlines (ACA) operating for United Express. Wfu & stored 7.04. Independence Air, new name 4.8.04. Returned off lease to Coventry Aircraft 18.02.05. Noted recently placed into storage at Loring, Maine 26.7.04 in United Express colours - never a part of the new Independence Air operation. Moved to Galgary 10.1.07 for further storage. Ferried from Galgary to Inverness 19-20.3.08 as N318UE then the US serial cancelled 31.3.08.
At which stage, the problem with paper based sources, that they date quickly concludes what I can offer immediately. But with a gap, the ownership story is taken up from CAA G-INFO website:
Registered G-TEXA with Highland Airways Ltd (of Edinburgh) on 2.4.08. Intended for service with Highland Airways it entered a period of overhaul at Inverness summer 2008, but in the event never entered service. After storage at Inverness taken to a scrap yard in Elgin (when?)for spares recovery and cutting up. Highland Airways with their Jetstream 31s and a single Jetstream 41 ceased operations 24.3.10. The CAA record showing G-TEXA was sold and registered to Bravo Aviation Ltd (of Jersey) 20.8.10. De-registered with the CAA as "sold in Sweden" 16.5.11. Although she never actually left Britain.
While from 'Wrecks & Relics-23', Ken Ellis, Crecy (2012) gather it was at initially at Inverness (some web listing quote Air Alba as owners - the pre 1997 name of Highland Airways) on return to the UK; then noted 3.12 onwards as a nose section with Retro Aviation, Market Drayton, Shropshire, and as noted on the OP, moved again 12.4.14 into private ownership in Cheshire for restoration of the nose section as a mobile display.
Now the reason why I have placed this on the 'Liverpool Region Nostalgia' Section is that I have 'an itch' in the back of the memory cells that a United Express Jetstream fuselage was imported via Liverpool Docks in the period around 2007-2008. It was reported on nwan forum, but while hosted by xsorbit, which ceased late 2008 - so the record is no longer there. Can anyone help out here, please? The only 'paper' source for this information could be Air Britain 'News' Production listings - but I was not an A-B member during that period so cannot search back issues for anything on 41041. I'm now certain that the United Express fuselage that transited Seaforth was a Jetstream 32, not a Jetstream 41.
I have researched what I can find of the history of this aircraft, that had only a little under 10 years of service, with just the one operator. What I have come up with so far:
From a usually reliable paper based source 'Turbo Prop Aircraft Production List', TAHS, Roach & Eastwood, 2007, with additional notes from 1995 & 2004/05 British enthusiast magazine 'North West Air News':
BAe. Jetstream 4100, c/no. 41041, first flight 9.11.94, marked as G-4-041. Retained 'B conditions' registration with British Aerospace for test flying at Prestwick (no full British civil registration allocated). Ferried Prestwick to East Midlands 13.12.94 in primer as G-4-041 and returned EMA to PIK 30.12.94 now painted in full United Express colour scheme. Departed Prestwick 14.1.95 for Reykjavik and onto Narssarssuaq (arrived 15th) then onward to USA on delivery flight to Atlantic Coast Airlines, based at Washington-Dullas who operated as part of the United Express network. Seems to be their 18th J41 (of 33 ultimately operated - which includes one that crashed soon after delivery and was replaced by another with the same registration). The 41st J41 built (including prototypes) of the 104 completed and flown.
N318UE Jetstream Aircraft Inc (of Stirling, Virgina) ownership transferred 14.1.95. Same day sold to Coventry Aircraft and leased by Atlantic Coast Airlines. Left UK 14.1.95 on delivery to USA for Atlantic Coast Airlines (ACA) operating for United Express. Wfu & stored 7.04. Independence Air, new name 4.8.04. Returned off lease to Coventry Aircraft 18.02.05. Noted recently placed into storage at Loring, Maine 26.7.04 in United Express colours - never a part of the new Independence Air operation. Moved to Galgary 10.1.07 for further storage. Ferried from Galgary to Inverness 19-20.3.08 as N318UE then the US serial cancelled 31.3.08.
At which stage, the problem with paper based sources, that they date quickly concludes what I can offer immediately. But with a gap, the ownership story is taken up from CAA G-INFO website:
Registered G-TEXA with Highland Airways Ltd (of Edinburgh) on 2.4.08. Intended for service with Highland Airways it entered a period of overhaul at Inverness summer 2008, but in the event never entered service. After storage at Inverness taken to a scrap yard in Elgin (when?)for spares recovery and cutting up. Highland Airways with their Jetstream 31s and a single Jetstream 41 ceased operations 24.3.10. The CAA record showing G-TEXA was sold and registered to Bravo Aviation Ltd (of Jersey) 20.8.10. De-registered with the CAA as "sold in Sweden" 16.5.11. Although she never actually left Britain.
While from 'Wrecks & Relics-23', Ken Ellis, Crecy (2012) gather it was at initially at Inverness (some web listing quote Air Alba as owners - the pre 1997 name of Highland Airways) on return to the UK; then noted 3.12 onwards as a nose section with Retro Aviation, Market Drayton, Shropshire, and as noted on the OP, moved again 12.4.14 into private ownership in Cheshire for restoration of the nose section as a mobile display.
Now the reason why I have placed this on the 'Liverpool Region Nostalgia' Section is that I have 'an itch' in the back of the memory cells that a United Express Jetstream fuselage was imported via Liverpool Docks in the period around 2007-2008. It was reported on nwan forum, but while hosted by xsorbit, which ceased late 2008 - so the record is no longer there. Can anyone help out here, please? The only 'paper' source for this information could be Air Britain 'News' Production listings - but I was not an A-B member during that period so cannot search back issues for anything on 41041. I'm now certain that the United Express fuselage that transited Seaforth was a Jetstream 32, not a Jetstream 41.
