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29th Mar 2015, 15:59

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Low Flying Shorts Skyvans

Saw two short Skyvans low over Essex on Fri 27.03.2015 (Upminster area) in close formation at about 1500 feet, heading east. Anyone what they were doing?

29th Mar 2015, 16:10

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Anyone what they were doing?

About 95 knots?

29th Mar 2015, 17:37

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An Australian registered one flew all over the UK at low level about 15 years ago, doing a magnetic survey. Infringed all sorts of airspace.

29th Mar 2015, 17:41

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There appear to be only two on the British register, both owned by the same company in Whitstable.

29th Mar 2015, 19:09

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Probably sky diving ?

29th Mar 2015, 21:01

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From 1500' wouldn't it be Sky Drilling?

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30th Mar 2015, 08:16

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I thought the Skyvans were used for training the Parachute Regiment which is now based in Colchester so their height and location wouldn't have surprised me.

30th Mar 2015, 08:53

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An Australian registered one flew all over the UK at low level about 15 years ago, doing a magnetic survey. Infringed all sorts of airspace

We knew they had got lost, but this is the first time we've heard by how far. The results of the survey suggested we should be drilling in the middle of the London CBD. Imagine one of these trundling down the Strand:

30th Mar 2015, 11:41

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It was the UK registered ones returning to their base in Belgium.

31st Mar 2015, 09:52

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They were G-PIGY and G-BEOL.
See here: OV-10B Bronco Demo Team

31st Mar 2015, 10:20

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They are very modern looking 5 bladed props on an '60's vintage machine. "Like putting lip-stick on a pig" (or polishing a t*rd).

31st Mar 2015, 14:42

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About 95 knots?

31st Mar 2015, 21:24

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I didn't know that the Skyvan could get high enough to drop parachutists

31st Mar 2015, 21:53

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Not forgetting the old joke about the Skyvan being the only aircraft ever to have sustained a bird strike from behind.

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The Loganair Skyvan at Glasgow (GAWCS?) must have been an exception then; on its run to Stornoway, it would make cruising level (FL90) at the end of the downwind leg at Glasgow after departing from 06 (which is now I believe 05)

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DRUK - thought that was the Beverley

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That reminds me of one of my few rides in the Skyvan, on final approach to the short cross runway at GLA (27?, now Taxiway C), with Shorts' chief TP in the LH seat opposite me.

ATC enthusiastically granted us permission for a "demonstration" Skyvan falling-out-of-the-sky approach, and we duly ended up with the runway straight ahead, but only visible through the eyebrow windows.