Originally Posted by
renfrew
Re the Jordanain Air Force Ambassador above.
We got the occasional interesting aircraft at Renfrew bringing Avon engines to Rolls Royce for overhaul.
I remember seeing a Sabena CV-440 on the approach when the Jordanian Ambassador appeared underneath the Convair resulting in much shouting on the radio.
I was surprised to see G-ALZP at LaGuardia in 1964.
I believe by 1964 the Jordanian Air Force Ambassador had been passed on, via the equivalent Moroccan Air Force, still as a VIP transport, and had come back to the Decca company in the UK, where it was used for some years for navigation kit testing. However, I never heard before of it (or any Ambassador) making it to the USA. Wonder what they were doing there. This aircraft was supposedly sold by Decca to a New Zealand start-up airline around 1970, but never left the UK and was scrapped here. It was the last remaining airworthy Ambassador,