is published, monthly by tbe Ait YorksbireGroup foi private circulation only. Due credit should

be given to anything extracted from tbis journal.

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VOLUME 1 NU1IBER ITAiiCII 1975

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THANKS for supplying magazine information goesto tbe following memberss- Geoff Abbott,

Dave Allan, Ian Barber, Pete Barber, Ian Carling,Ian Harrison, Keith Jordan, Steve Lan.gf ielcl, GaryLewis, Ian. Sim,. Trevor Smith, Len Spice, NickWatson; and to tbe following journals;- Air North,Flight International, Flypast, LAA3 International,Prestwick Air Letter, South East Air Review.

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GRAND RAFFLli; Tbe draw will take place at theApril meeting - first prize is tbe

History of World \Va.r 2 (worth about £20) ~~ secondprize is tbe four BAiiG monographs. Tickets will besold prior to tbe draw on April 6tb.

FANCY DRESS-BALL This is the first Air Yorkshiresocial event of the year and.

has been organised jointly .with the Leeds BradfordFree Fall Club to take place in tbe YorkshireAeroplane Club on the evening of March 15tb. Allmembers are invited to come along in'silly' outfits- someone is already coining- as the Invisible Kan I IPrizes will be awarded, and a raffle will takeplace.

MEETINGS Tbe next gathering occurs at tbeYorksbire Aeroplane Club at the Leeds/

Bradford Airport on April 6tb at 1500 hours(courtesy of tbe club directors), and will featurePeter Scbofield with bis slide show on Airliners oftbe World. All members are invited to tbe meeting,,

COACH TRIPS Tbe. Air Yorkshire outing- to LondonHeathrow Airport and tbe RAF Museum

at Hendon on Saturday April 26tb is booking up veryquickly witb a few seats still vacant. Cost is£2.25 for members, and £2.60 for non-members.

EVENING GLIDING A proposed evening of glidingwill be arranged for Wednesday

llth June at the Ouse Gliding Club at Ruffortb. Tbecost will be £2.20 for an aerotow to 1100 feet.Start will be 2000 bours witbincludingonly be organised if sufficient numbers of Air-Yorkshire members wish to participate. Those peoplewishing to attend, are asked to write to Dave Allan,tbe Social Secretary as early as possible.

AIR DISPLAY Tbe SSAFA Display will take placeat Church Fenton on Sunday 22nd

June. Air Yorksbire bave been asked by the SSAFAcommitee to provide a stand and we have accepted.

NEW MEMBERS If an Air1 Yorksbire member introducesa new member to tbe group, a. 25p

voucher will be given in return to be used, on tbevarious coach trips, or at the stand, at Church

finish of 2130supper if possible. This event will

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AROUN PIJE AIRI.IKM3

ir commenced operations on I.larcb 3rd tbrougb Leeds/Brad.fordwitb a leased. B.H-.A. Herald - G-A5VO - in full Air Anglia

colours, A week earlier-, tbe aircraft bad, been noted in tbe Fields bangerat Castle Donnington undergoing preparation for tbe lease.An. out station, bas been established, by tbe company at Humberside, and anAztec (currently G-AYTP) is based for air taxi work. A weekday service toAmsterd.am commences, on. April 1st, and a. seasonal Jersey service commenceson. Marcb 29tb - botb being operated by Friendships.

Heraldare disposing- of tbeir fleet. G— ASVOwas leased to Air An^lia (qv) at tbe beginning

of tbis montb for a. year, and one eacb of G-ATIG and G--BAVX will KO toBritisb Island Airways (qv) end Britisb Air Perries. New equipment fortbe airline is reportedly second-band Boeing 737 -200s from tbe Japanese.carrier All Nippon Airway

spares at Jersey. To replace tbis',Ii i. d la n d A i r • wa. y s ( q v ) ."•

Herald G-BBXJ (AY/75/12) isits recent accident, and is

beyond, repair after-being stripped, of

Herald will be obtained from Britisb

makeare

5."itA4X are deciding wbetber boArgentinas IIS. 748s tbat

tbe company's HS.748s will be converted,installation of more power full Dart 532On. tbe One-Eleven front, tbe airline is

.a bid for tbe Aerolineas

currently up for disposal. All, to series 2A standard witb tbeturboprops,probably to purcbe.se two 400

series from Zambia.n Airways (G-ATTP G-ATVH). Tbe recently leased 500 Jseries aircraft (AY/75/12) are now known to be G-ASffil 'I !K 'YOR. Toforget about Court Line and to avoid confusion witb tbe Coraet callsigns,tbe aircraft are being re-registered, witb tbe first 'L'iK becoming G-BCWAafter delivery fron Bour'neiaoutb to Las bain on January 30tb ,Dan-Air v/ill be operating Saturday evening cbarters to Osten.d tbis summerwitb HS.748s from Leeds/Bradford.

• ••• - .S^Z§XSJi4lSS^S new colour scbeme is purple and wbite. Tbe first Dove

is G-APZU and m a d e , a prooving fligbt into Leeds/Brad-ford on Harcb 9tb. Services conmen.ee on Lla.rcb I7tb (AY/75/12).

ANGLIA AERONEV/S tbe montbly journal of tbe Anglian Aviation Society,• .. gives in d.eptb coverage of aviation in East Anglia -

Military, Commercial, and Ligbt aviation; also Airfield Visitors, Wrecksand. Relics, Display reports, Airline bistories etc. Always topical and.a. must for tbe aviation entbusiast at only £1.30 (£1.60 overseas) for ayears subscription, .or for a free sanpibe copy contacts- lir P W Stanley,

Tw.yford Moors (Helicopters) Ltd are reported, to be under tbe bands of areceiver witb tbe fleet being up .for sale. The company bad bases atSouthampton Heliport, Sberburo, and Bristol Lu.lsaate.

""* " """While on. the subject of helicopters, an unusual task was placed on tbeYorkshire TV Jet-Ranger G-BBTV on March 7th, It was called upon to dryout the New Ilunslet Rugby League Club's pitch io Ijej?dj3 wbicb was water-loged. by hovering a few feet above tbe surface.

The r>x Hortba.ir Basset N90810 was noted in Canada on December 12tb lastyear at Llontr-eal/Dorval.

Over at Sst TJS.s Slingsby Kestrel BGA1795 was tested with a. 125cciicCullou.gb engine on Maireb 2nd. Tbe Slingsby Capstan is back fromCleveland Sailplanes after a C of A and a respray, and subsequently firstflew on lu'areb 2nd. A visitor during February was Cessna 150 G-BAGW on tbe2 61 b f•/1 S b e r bu r n.

Tbe monthly review at D_oncaster on February lltb found tbe following. InFlight-Line's banger were" .lA5s~"G-BCLJ G-BCPLi G-BCIK G-BCPL G-BAJN (lattertwo"fuselage only), B.206 G-AVCI (wings), C 182 M-ATF, C 336 G-ASLL(still stripped), Jod.el G-AYFP, and Cherokee G-AYAC. Also noted in tbebanger was'an AA1 without a. registration on. it, but above tbe instrument-ation was N6170A. In Eastern Aviation's banger wer'e AA5s G-BCIJ G-BBLS,Cberokees G-BCLL G-ASEJ G-AVWR, C 172 G-AVUX, Gemini G-AKEK (still berel),C 150s G-BBCI G-ASYL G-ASMW, Jodels G-AXLS G-AWIG, Moonevs G-ASUB G-ARWY,AA1 G-BBUII, Alpha. G-AHHP, Terrier G-ASYNS VP-1 G-AYXW, Emeraude G-ASBS,e«u Shield Xyla G-AWPN.

sitors during February were Siai G-AYXS f/t Leecin/Bradford. 7tb, PupG-AV/VC f/t Leeds/Bradford I8tb, and C 182 G-BBYII f/t Leeds/Bradford 20tb.

Ryburn Air's Hughes ?69 G-BBSP bas reportedly been sold in Eire, and itset off on February 16tb for Germany (?) after spending a few days fog-bound at |i££ § Brg. Jord. It-was being flown by a a. Canadian and was routingvia Sywell and Biggin Hill.

The RAFGSA are now onerating Chipmunks G-BAVH and G-BCCX as glider tugsa"t SiS i°X$JvJ! ^c'^i-VS; recently arrived from Bicester.

Cyclone Tracy wbicb struck Darwin, Australia on Christmas clay was respon-sible for the destruction of a laree number of aircraft. Among them wasRile.y Dove VH-ABH better known locally as G-ATGI of I.IcAlpine Aviation,and Dove PK-LEA wbicb used to be a. familiar sight when operated by Ind.coope Ltd as G-APCZ. Another Dove witb local connections v>/as damaged butreported repairable being VH-DHA which was operated by Clarke Chapman &Co Ltd for 10 years as G-ARI1T.

Cberofcee G-AVWR crashed on I.iarcb 3t'd ?/hen landing at a private strip atOjSj, about 6 miles east of Paull. The aircraft has lost one wing rnd is

understood to be a write off.

received Hercules Cls' Ascot 7<?3' f/t Lyneban 7tb and 'Ascot770' f/t Lynebaa 20tb, and an unidentified twin -pis ton

'JEH 87' 27 tb during February.

.Le,c on_f_i erld_ during February received a. Pembroke 'Ascot 067' t Hawardenon tbe 6tb.

Further deliveries of Bulldog Tls sine tbe last report~ (AY/75/14) beve. been XX666 ( c/n 324), XX66? (c/n 325), XK668

(c/n 326), and XX 66 9 (c/n 327) wbicb all arrived on February 5tb. Tbeirfirst flight dates from tbe SAL facility at Prestwick were tbe 9tb, lOtb,21st, and"29tb Jenuary r effectively . Tbe last Bulldog Tl for tbe RAF willbe 2X714.Visitiiig during February wf-s an Andover 'Ascot 9905' on tbe 7tb, whilsttwo of tbe airfield's Bulldogs 'AUR 03' :?n.d 'AUR 04' were- outbound, toCam.brl dge on. the 21st.

",MjiM Jl0J2rPji.se Two visitors lest month were Bulldog 'ANB 03' f/t

Woodvale 7tb, while tbe 27tb produced Doraine 'Ascot1687' t Nortbolt.

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Sbannon and cane f Ring-way t Gatwick on tbeTbe same company's Aztec N80WT flew tbe same route on tbe 1-4t.b. Seneca.D-GEVA on tbe 3 'd was f/t Saarbrucken and tbe owner was logged as AndreasV/eber KG. Biggies of tbe moutb were two BAG 1-11 401s, N5037 .of BrOSS-JOT-Industries on. tbe 4tb was f Heatbrow t Ringway, and G-AXCP of Dan.*-Air ontbe 14tb replaced tbe usual HS.748 and was f Newcastle t Bournenoutb. TbeHS 125-3B on tbe 4tb I-BOGI of Soc, Ire was f Milan t Beauvais, Cessna310K D-IEIC of Pirma Fritz Eicbena.uer was f Hincway n/s t Ka.rlsru.be, andtbe C 172 PH-GON of Dick van de Broek was f/t Scbipol. Nice visitor ontbe 5tb was tbe Air Ha.inaut I.Iarauis P-BLLU wbicb was. f/t Lille, end ontbe same day tbe appropriately registered B.A.S. Navajo PH-BAS was f/tRotterdam. Tbe only Falcon. 20 of tbe tio.ntb was tbe Soc. Zanussi Spa:i.a.cbine I-GIAZ commuting f/t Treviso on bbe 6tb. A different type of biz-jet was tbe Jet Commander F-BT'DA f/t Le BourgetCessna 182 EI-ATF cane f Doncaster non-radio in(r~"RnT,T anrl nmrorl in~hn Nnv+.Vi n-i T- -fr>r T orH n -f-i i-.-Mn

on tbe 13tb. On tbe l8tbformation witb Traveler

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Ulfoss Plastics f Lulsgate n/s t Ring-way;1-. Kite- Air F--BINE on tb<? 20tb isc/n. LJ-124 and belongs to Neu-Extair being f/t Lille. The Kungsair Baron.SE-FNT on tbe 20tb was f Jonkoping n/s t Staverton, and tbe Cessna 172 ofthe Irisb Tank & Pipeline Co EI-AYK was f/t Dublin on tbe 23rd. To roundoff tbe foreign part of tbe month we badLtd. f Newcastle t Ringwa.y, and. the Aztecbotb on tbe 26tb. Liilitar.y visitors -havetbe following are tbe callsigns for what2nd was 'AA407', Scout XR637~(Blue Eagles

King Air 90 N14C.P of Scboll (UK)F-BVTG of DARTA.f/t Le Bour getbeen few pnd far between,, butwe did. have. Scout XT172 on tbesupport) on tbe 5tb was 'AA004'

f Netberavon t Shipley,Belfast as 'Ascot 1690'on tbe 23rd as 'AA641'.sign of being convertedbnager is slowly beingawaits sale in the YLA banger', and Jalso still witb YLA (G-AZBI). Cessna.the Cherokee Six b,.ve both been usednumber of occasions d.uring the month

Andover Cl XS597 on tbe 21st was f Nortbolt twitb Lierlin. Reess an.d Beeaver AL1 was f/t BelfastWitb Nortbair tbe three remaining Bassets show n.oor exported and are collecting dust while

extended around them. Twin Comanche G-AXERodel which arrived on January172 G-AItCM from Ringwa.y,b.y the local parachutiststo sun-plement the Cessna

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Bourset t Gatwick ana tbe latter f FleslandAztec F-BPFZ was f/t Lille on tbe I j tb , tbeJet 00-LFZ was f/t Brussels, and tbe Ciraber iGr oninsen t Ste.vanger , Mitsubishi M.U-2 H76I.1D.tbe 15tb and belon.es to Oceanic Contractor??, ,

/s t H-cbipol. Tbe BART A' .n .q- da .Y t b e A b e 1 r G; Lea. r

i.r Word "262 CY-BCC was ' fwas f t> tavanfver t Norwicb onOv, . t be 20tb our- correspond-

ent r e c o r d e d tN453i.JV' froi,i tbe airport log f/t Brussels witb a, n/s, andis believed, to be Cherokee Arrow N45_3U. Visitinc, for tbe first time wasBAG l-li G-BCWA of Dan-Air (ex G-AXLjK). New res iden t is tbe Az t ec G-BBGBwbicb arrived on tbe 26tb f Leavesden to replace G-ARYF with .N. Corner.Amona tbe charters to take place tbis sumraer are two T. I .A, DC-8s, twoAir Canada DC-8s, and tbe Friday IL-l8s of L . 'O .T . . - raore details will bepublished, when, known. Also a Varie Boeing 707 will be taking nacbiner.yto Brazil - again more deta i ' J

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