Where is Learjet 35A-265 now?
 

Does anyone know the current whereabouts of Lear 35A-265?
Ex A6-RJI/UAE 801/G-LEAR.
Apparently Royal Jet in Dubai sold her a year ago but they couldn't tell me who to! Is she still flying?
Thanks,

re LR35A 265

I Hope the old bird is still flying

We tokk delivery of the baby in 1989 and she was on the books until approx 3-4 years ago

Lovely old bird but she caused a few Heartaches in her time with various things

I remember the day she left Manchester on delivery to UAE

I dont think there was a dry eye in NEA



Please let me know if u find anything on her


Regards



Gerry X N E A

I heard a rumour that she was now operating out of Cyprus, but not showing up on any of the registers apart from as A6-RJI.

I last flew with her in '01 with a camera install. Was very sad to see her leave.
JB

A friend of mine flew both 265 and 429 from Abu Dhabi to Dubai for a pre-buy inspection a couple of months ago. Buyer was a Danish medevac company currently operating a B200.

G LEAR
 

Still my screensaver after all the years. "We don' do stans anymore, and that includes stanstead!"

Reminded PG of our first trip the other day " now then bloggs, lets try staight and level....................................................... ................................................. OK, lets just try straight!

G-LEAR

We had sn 365 G-CJET where is that one now? Germany I think. it was a great aircraft mainly because it was maintained by NEA. I forget the Chief Engineers name (Trevor ........) but he always got the aircraft out on time and within budget and it never went wrong even doing 750 hours gruelling charter a year. We sold it in 1995 because it was approaching 10,000 hours and thought that was a bit high. Probably got 20,000 now and still going strong. Only flown the 35a but am told it is still one of the best Lears to fly.

365 G-GJET, not G-CJET. Went to FAI Rent-a-Jet: "During takeoff 06/12/08 from Kisangani Airport, Congo aircraft left runway, undercarriage torn off, damaged beyond repair."

Written off sadly.:(

S/N 365 was G-CJET from 1987 until the mid 90's it may have been re-registered as G-GJET later. Sad to hear it being a W/O

G-CJET was once owned by Mr. Clowes of Barlow Clowes. He ended up in Wandsworth I think. Had "Carolin" painted on the nose hence G-CJET. I think it was his daughter

Sorry, my mistake (or rather G-INFO's!). It was G-GJET when it was with us after you I guess.

Didn't G-RDBS also have the same name on the nose?

Yes you are correct it was G-RDBS that had "Carolin" G-CJET had "Caroline" when it was painted white/blue. I remember well because my wife is called Caroline and I told her I had it painted on for her! Worked wonders for a while!

Hawker750
 

What ho, didn't realize you were that advanced in years old chap:ok: Haven't touched base in a very long time.

The venerable G-LEAR
 

Nice to see that the old girl still attracts such interest. Happy memories of many an hour cooped up in that two-man crash helmet that served as a cockpit.

Tried to post a picture but it wouldn't work.

MT

Oh happy days......many memerable hours in G-LEAR. I was only looking at a 35 yesterday from my big glass cockpit and wishing I was flying those low level EW flights in Norway again. Without doubt the most enjoyable flying of my life.

Some good people at NEA.........

Hawker 750 - The guys name you were trying to remember was Gould (Trevor), he was the Engineering Manager in those days, ably assisted by Chief Engineer Willie Hines

Regards


The Doc

That's all very interesting chaps, but what about s/n 35-265?

flyvantage,

Possibly 35A-265, ex G-LEAR is back over here !!

The CAA recieved an application for restoration back to the UK reg and a CofA application 5 days ago for this aircraft.

CFMU
 

A quick check of CFMU has flagged up a flight plan of G-LEAR from OMDB-LCLK! Brought a tear to my eye!

Any idea who will be operating it?