N Reg planes in UK

[johnnypick]

Does anyone know what companies run N reg planes in the UK/employ people with an FAA CPL/IR. If not where to look to find them other than the FAA web site. Biz Jets/flight schools, anything!!!

[BritFAACFII]

Hi,

I have the same quest as you and just found the following message from a couple of months ago posted by a Senior Member under the tag of PorcoRosso:


PorcoRosso
Senior Member
posted 24th February 2002 00:43
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Quite a lot af Biz aircraft are "N" registered in Europe actually.. .I am myself a "N" Seneca jockey, but I guess you may be more interested by Bizjet than Bizprop !. .The only thing I can confirm about flying a "N" corporate or Biz A/C is that it involves luck and networking !. .Where in Europe will you work ?

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[email protected]. ."Flying is not dangerous, crashing is"


I can fully understand the comments about luck and networking - but, like you, I'm looking for some initial pointers about who to network with!

Cheers,

BritFAACFII

[johnnypick]

Thanks for the info. It seems like a lot of peple are saying there plenty of N reg's in England, but when it comes to it, they don't know where they actually are. The search continues!! This is just an interim thing, as I start at the Guildhall in a month, I just wanted to be able to use my CPL/IR until then and at the weekends.

Cheers

Johnny

[PorcoRosso]

Hi Johnny

If you look for a "N" registered A/C to stay current, the best thing to do is to look around at GA airfields for those Planes¨
Plenty of owners are registering PA28 or 34 in the US, not only citations or HS125
Quite a lot of N registered toys are in the channel Islands. I can also remember few of them in Bournemouth.
So take your car and drive to this kind of places, once you spot one , It shouldn't be very difficult to get in touch with thier owners.
I don't suggest you to come here in France, to have a go in the "N" Seneca I usually fly; since my boss won't be very entusiastic about that.

Take care


The Networking and luck business are still valid factors ....

[BritFAACFII]

Hi,

Having posted a similar question in the Private Flying forum, I received a couple of helpful replies that I'll share here:

From SKYYACHT: there's an N-reg at Shoreham, EGKA

From AC-DC: has a plane under 14 CFR Part 91; also suggests that Elstree has N-reg Single Commanche, Twin Commanche, Warrior, Commander

FROM Julian: there's a C172 at Popham.

Thanks to SKYYACHT, AC-DC and Julian for this info!

Cheers

BritFAACFII

[PorcoRosso]

That's the start of networking guys !

[t'aint natural]

I don't want to fall foul of the pprune no-advertising rules, but at the risk of sailing close to the wind I'll say there's a man at Lands End St Just called Warren Chmura who runs a Trust with about 160 UK and Europe-based N-reg aircraft on the books. If you want any information about N-regs he's pretty much the horse's mouth. He's also an all-round good guy who flies fixed-wing and rotary and rebuilds Hiller 12Cs. He's on 01736 786032.

[flying thespian]

Re: N Reg planes in UK

Try a copy of jp Bizjet by Brian Gates published by Buchair01737 224747@£15.95 It lists every Bizjet in the world with locations and owner/operators. In my experience this is difficult territory and all about who you know. N reg is a gamble in UK as JAR ops is the only real acceptable route to quantity of work with little or no acceptance of N time or experience . In rare cases you may be allowed to fly G reg on a validation but for one year only.Africa is considered a good source of work particularly for Turbine time.The Bizjet operators still want hours and time on type.Happy hunting. Flying Thespian.

[BritFAACFII]

Thank you to everyone who has commented and given advice!

Cheers, BritFAACFII

[johnnypick]

I second that, Cheers everyone!!

[BGA]

Try this website for address/ownership info':

http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/acmain.htm


BGA

[tas]

Jonnypick

These in an American flight training school based at Norwich which has a number of N-reg aircraft. The school is called something like "american flight training" or something similar and is run by Tom Houston.

tas

[NigD]

The only two N-reg aircraft that I can remember who operates them are:

Ambrion Aviation - N reg Hawker 125 700 based at Luton

The bloke who owns Matalan has an N-reg Hawker 800XP based at Blackpool (I think).

Hope this helps a bit

NIgD

[whatsthelatest]

find a good reggie spotters book, they seem to find the end user of A/c when everyone else cant...THEN, do a search for the company on the companies house web site, hey presto, you have a mailing address for your C.V

[vrefplus5]

Hamlin Jet ( by MikeHamlin) out of Luton. LR45's I believe.

[AMEX]

On any airfield in the UK, you will find an N reg A/C (at least).
Plenty out of EGBJ, EGTG, EGNH,.... Single, twin, piston and jets.
The difficult bit is to find one you can hire but far from impossible.