View Full Version : Islander G-RAPA...road runner
posso
29th Oct 2014, 22:54
Noted on the back of a truck, boarding the Isle of Wight, Yarmouth to Lymington car ferry on Mon Oct 27th, was the long suffering fuselage of BN2T Islander G-RAPA.
Much used old BN2, bare fus ended up in external storage / rescue training duties, at Bembridge for the last few years.
Anyone know where it was heading?
Manual Reversion
30th Oct 2014, 22:46
About 1000 hrs in that one. And a a few hundred jumps. I guess it won't be going for another C of A!
posso
30th Oct 2014, 23:37
Nope not much chance of a fresh C of A, after all the years stuck outside.
Have subsequently heard a rumour that ( along with a couple of other old BN2 airframes from oop north), it might have been heading for the Longcross film studio site in Surrey..for use in the next James Bond movie.
You heard it here first folks!
The late XV105
23rd Nov 2014, 20:36
the long suffering fuselage of BN2T Islander G-RAPA
It certainly suffered in the hacked-about way never mind anything else!
Britten-Norman BN-2T-4R Islander, G-RAPA, Pilatus Britten-Norman (http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1389032/)