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Old 19th Jun 2021, 06:43
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Originally Posted by SpringHeeledJack
That must have been almost heart breaking for the EI engineers who looked after them for all those years. Just an aluminium tube etc, but yet so much more. I remember seeing some photos only a few years ago of quite a few 1-11's parked together, covered in a thick layer of gunk somewhere in Nigeria, perhaps Kano (?) or Lagos. Might one of those have been the remaining EI cohort, or were these ROMBAC examples ?
Three of the four ended up at Kaduna, one being written off after it skidded off the runway there in August 1992.

The fourth was scrapped at Southend.
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