Originally Posted by
thetimesreader84
What changes were planned for the J61? Was it just a name change, or was more planned?
Supposition only, but I have always thought that the J61 was seen as a different aircraft to the ATP with a different type certificate, not taken through to completion after the build programme was abandoned, which would explain why the two aircraft actually flown were never sold but scrapped just a couple of years after first flight. There would otherwise surely have been at least some residual value to one of the existing operators in taking them.