Anyone feeling flush? F3 for sale

[NutLoose]

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[si.]

I wonder what the emissions based road tax would be, to enable me to taxi it off my drive....

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

I did my first 1st Pilot flight in this very jet, a LL Wazex round Wales.

Wonder if that gets me a discount (like about 95%)?

[NutLoose]

They've hoovered all the Banana skins out of it since then...

No engines Si. So it's a glorified soapbox cart.

[Geehovah]

First trip on 14 Jan 91 when it arrived on 56 - on an Advanced radar sortie. Not sure I'd have paid that much for the experience though! At least it's not going to scrap which seems to be the norm nowadays.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Some soapbox cart - this was the first 4-wheeled vehicle I was ever qualified to drive

(I only had a motorbike licence on the road. Oh, and no bananas yet, I was a staggeringly average stude pilot on this course.).

It did an earlier turn on the OCU, I flew it on 4 and 5 July 88

[dctyke]

Why not just keep it as ZE 256, it's 'real' number!

[Lima Juliet]

Wouldn't be seen dead in a 11(Bomber) Sqn jet...:yuk:

LJ

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

The guy restoring it was once a rigger on XI Sqn. He says in the company blurb that there's a personal connection. I would imagine he had a trip in ZE343 or his name on the side. ZE256 is still on the fin port side.

[Lima Juliet]

I've flown ZE256 on 29(F), V(ac) and 56... :ok:

[Courtney Mil]

The airframe might be in quite good condition because I never flew her.

[The B Word]

What's the damage? All I can see is "POA"...:confused:

[claron]

Do you think they would give a discount, if you took the GR1 as well, might look nice either side od the driveway.

[diginagain]

I somehow can't see Jeremy Clarkson rushing to stick it in his front garden.

[27mm]

They should replace the F3 gate guardian at Coningsby with it - both the F3 and F4 there are in a disgracefully scruffy state, partially covered with moss and other stuff:mad:

[CoffmanStarter]

I think we should all have a whip-round and save the old girl for posterity on behalf of F3WMB :ok:

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Decent of you, Coffman; but to quote Blackadder, I think you'd have to have the Ppruners roundly whipped rather than relying on a whip-round. Times is 'ard.

[NutLoose]

We could always stuff him and have him mounted in the cockpit suitably adorned to add the little bit of realism.

[2Planks]

27mm - that's the problem with having mud movers as staish - no sense of heritage!!

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Not too keen on 'stuffed'. Happy to be pickled. Send cases of Pol Roger Vintage, PM for address and list of acceptable vintages. Be warned - this will be a slow process.

[CoffmanStarter]

On those terms F3WMB ... I'll volunteer to be you're Backseater :ok:

[Kitbag]

No idea what they charge, but looking through their previous projects they do some good work