HKNW G-159

[G1pilot]

G-159 5Y-JET has been parked at HKNW for years. It is no longer shown in the latest Google earth image. It was sitting atop some wooden pallets so probably not easily moved. Does anyone know if it has been moved or scrapped?

[Foxcotte]

It was definitely scrapped a couple of years ago - sold off to a scrap metal merchant who literally chain-sawed it up into bits and carted it away. Very sad to see...

So I guess Google have just updated their satellite picture of Wilson if the plane has 'suddenly' gone.

[rcsa]

5Y-JET

5Y-JET was a w/o. Substantial damage to L/H wing and prop.

ASN Aircraft accident Grumman G-159 Gulfstream I 5Y-JET Nairobi-Wilson Airport (WIL)

Shame to be chopped up, though. Could have been part of a "Wilson Airport museum of African Aviation"....

[Trackdiamond]

G159

Sad indeed! That G159 was a familiar face at HKNW.For those of us who have flown the G159 from Wilson and JKIA all the more saddened.A marvelous and powerful machine it was.The ne I flew crashed in 2003 Busia (where it shouldn't have gone in the first place) carrying a Ministerial delegation..where one perished with my colleague pilots.There should be an Air Museum by now at Wilson..especially considering how long she has served us and that we commemorate it every year with an aeronautical display show.
In place of the Jet Pet 5Y-JET is now an ex FLY540 Blue with orange striped F27 freighter that crashed on takeoff on a test Flight.The F27 has been a good long servant at HKNW and perhaps this should be petitioned to be displayed in an open air museum.Air Kenya had a big fleet and so did Blue Bird (who now operate Fokker 50 and a Bombardier fleet of Dash and Qs.Theyare left with 2 Fokker 50.Blue Bird recently reduced one of its Fokker50s to a writeoff following a normal landing and overrun in Somalia.THERE MIGHT BE AN OLD dakota stowed away somewhere in Wilson which could also be used amongst a fleet of displays..notforgetting

[Foxcotte]

Trackdiamond

I think you may have stumbled onto something... there are dozens of wrecks, scrapped and just abandoned aircraft littered around Wilson that could so be put to good use in a museum of some kind. It would do such a public service to tidy up the airport, free up parking, and reduce the general tattiness of the place.

I'd be willing to guess that every one of those aircraft have a dozen great stories behind them.... overloading, flying miraa, crashing, illegal ops you name it. It could be a wonderful potted history of aviation at Wilson through the ages... Any takers out there?

[G1pilot]

Thanks for the info..

Here is the page from my website on 5Y-JET

C.N. 044 | G-159 Historical Research Museum