Beagle Basset
No experience of RAF Basset, but while serving I accumulated enough hours on Beagle 206, both normally aspirated and boosted, to appreciate the aircraft in those wonderful days of relatively simple General Aviation. Single pilot, decent avionics, good vision, and in my estimation much nicer than the PA31-310 which I also flew at the same time. I pitched up at Northolt on one occasion and my chums there came over to take a shufti. The Royal Air Force at the time did not appreciate that a navigator was no longer necessary, and neither was the hefty door fitted to their Bassets. Shame, a nice machine spoiled.
I believe that redundant aircraft became popular for one-run drug operations in certain parts of the world.
Last edited by JENKINS; 8th Oct 2019 at 15:11.