Ward Express Learjet

[cac_sabre]

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3734/11862699446_456922ebda_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87490663@N08/11862699446/)


Goodday again, anyone out there have any better pics of Wards Express Lears? I dont know how many they operated or what the regos were, the overexposed scan looks like VH-WFL

I really want a better resolution tail and fuselage logo

[Fred Gassit]

This one is marginally better

Photos: Gates Learjet 35A Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net (http://www.airliners.net/photo/Wards-Express/Gates-Learjet-35A/2135004/L/&sid=3aad06b07957666005ccef65eaf41c43)

[dogcharlietree]

Rego's were WFE and WFJ. We also used "sludge" SLJ (one of the fastest Lear's around.)

Learjet 35, VH-WFE, Wards Express (http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1287905/)

Learjet 35, VH-WFJ, Wards Express (http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1287906/)

Some more good picky's here;
A Different View Of Sydney - Page 7 - Sydney Airport Message Board (http://www.yssyforum.net/board/showthread.php?t=3644&page=7)
which shows the Falcon they used too.

[cac_sabre]

I managed to get enough to design the art work

Thanks for the regos as well

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3826/11870212776_5cd6ece154_n.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87490663@N08/11870212776/)
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3778/11867563815_b17798f6d5.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87490663@N08/11867563815/)

[pithblot]

Kloster ?
Chapman?
Coon ???

Where art thou ?

[walschaert valve]

cac sabre, I presume you are modelling one of these? They had an extra emergency exit above the right crew seat, you can just see the black outline in one of those photos. I understand they were the only Lears in the world to have this.

[cac_sabre]

for that exit info..were the aircraft bought for freight ops from new? I always assumed they were converted

cheers
wal

[walschaert valve]

Apparently, I checked a database I have access to and they were ordered new by "Wards Jet Freight" in 1978 and delivered in 1979. My involvement with them was for a few years in the late 1980s. I did maintenance training with Flight Safety in Tuscon and they had never heard of the mod for the emergency exit in the roof - the instructors were all ex factory guys. They also had 36 inch wide cabin doors, apparently 24 inch wide was standard - or perhaps more usual.

[cac_sabre]

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7388/12372243625_ef9c27ec6d_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87490663@N08/12372243625/)
LEAR WFJ 6 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87490663@N08/12372243625/) by wallycacsabre (http://www.flickr.com/people/87490663@N08/), on Flickr

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3834/12372709744_0d7558aec4_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87490663@N08/12372709744/)
LEAR WFJ 5 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87490663@N08/12372709744/) by wallycacsabre (http://www.flickr.com/people/87490663@N08/), on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7357/12372708734_31974c4be3_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87490663@N08/12372708734/)
LEAR WFJ 2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87490663@N08/12372708734/) by wallycacsabre (http://www.flickr.com/people/87490663@N08/), on Flickr



Also did this one:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7362/12372707364_2f3de8cf75_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87490663@N08/12372707364/)
NID 3 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87490663@N08/12372707364/) by wallycacsabre (http://www.flickr.com/people/87490663@N08/), on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5517/12372404113_b64a48192f_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87490663@N08/12372404113/)
NID 1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87490663@N08/12372404113/) by wallycacsabre (http://www.flickr.com/people/87490663@N08/), on Flickr

[Snakecharma]

I did my Dash endorsement on that machine many many years ago, not long after it was dragged from the hanger after NIA went bust. Still had food in the carts when it was locked up..

It went on to become NJD with NJS and then JSJ.

Lost track of it but think it is still flogging around.

No APU made it a bit of a pain to operate, particularly at unsupported airfields with no ground power.

[Wally Mk2]

Nice work 'CAC', just dragged my LR35 model off the shelf, (had it made & painted for me years ago) got a bit of dust on it but still reminds me of the heady days when flying was fun, an art, now it's so automated a monkey could fly !:E
What scale it that Wards Lear?

Wmk2

[cac_sabre]

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3734/12373830894_e8ddbfbdae_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87490663@N08/12373830894/)

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3810/12373374545_9c1d2002a3_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87490663@N08/12373374545/)

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7456/12373831904_61602d44fc_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87490663@N08/12373831904/)

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7360/12373538433_6decb143b3_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87490663@N08/12373538433/)


hi Wally

its 1/48 scale

rgds wally

[Wally Mk2]

Yeah I believe mine is 1/48th also, rather small but easy to place on any shelf.
As you would know the ability to weather a scale model of any kind is where the real skill is:ok:
If I could work out how to get a piccy on here I'd post one but never could work that out, old school I guess:{


Wmk2

[Stationair8]

Weren't the Wards Learjets painted purple on top of the fuselage at one stage?

I know a Darwin stockbroker who did a lot if back of the clock rides in the Lear's to get urgent paperwork to Adelaide or Melbourne in the days before fax machines. The Lear was much preferred to be going down the track in the middle of the night than in one of Ossies Navajo's!

[Ejector]

Did you buy the model and paint it or build all from scratch?

Impressive

[Captain Stoobing]

I remember watching VH-NID arrive in BNE after its ferry from Toronto as a young 15 year old boy.

From memory the guys that flew it to Lord Howe and Norfolk had no end of troubles with the aircraft from a reliability perspective.

[Capt Claret]

I did my Dash endorsement on that machine many many years ago, not long after it was dragged from the hanger after NIA went bust. Still had food in the carts when it was locked up..

It went on to become NJD with NJS and then JSJ.

Lost track of it but think it is still flogging around.

No APU made it a bit of a pain to operate, particularly at unsupported airfields with no ground power.


It now carries P2 registration and has an APU.

[Che cows with guns]

Confirmed VH-JSJ is now P2-NAT and has an APU.
Named in honour of a spiv/nice guy called Nat Koliala (check spelling), who founded Fubilan Air Transport, a division of Cobham.
Che.