BN2 Islander Models
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BN2 Islander Models
For all you current and ex Islander drivers.
Can someone explain the differences between Islander models?
Is it just the year of manufacture/production run?
e.g. BN2A, BN2A-20, BN2A-21, BN2A-26, BN2A-27, BN2B-26
Were tip tanks and 300HP donks an option or was it a particular model?
Just curious.
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Can someone explain the differences between Islander models?
Is it just the year of manufacture/production run?
e.g. BN2A, BN2A-20, BN2A-21, BN2A-26, BN2A-27, BN2B-26
Were tip tanks and 300HP donks an option or was it a particular model?
Just curious.
Any other stories like highest time islander and most POB welcomed
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Hello,
Now people can put me right though the diffrent models are what you said fuel tanks, range etc performance.
With the highest time BN I remember flying on with an old mate in Queensland at the BN clocked over 14,000hours
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Now people can put me right though the diffrent models are what you said fuel tanks, range etc performance.
With the highest time BN I remember flying on with an old mate in Queensland at the BN clocked over 14,000hours
Cheers
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Try these links for more islander info
http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=131
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britten...y_and_versions
I didn't know they were also built in romainia and the phillipines, I wonder how you can tell where they are built ?
They weren't built in the Philippines - they were assembled at PADC (Philippine Aerospace Development Corp) at NAIA Airport in Manila from "kits" supplied by Britten Norman. They were all 300 HP aircraft but interestingly enough, a number were assembled with used or overhauled engines, not the new engines supplied........ One of the Phils assembled Islanders had a later year of manufacture than the year it was actually built - but that is another story altogether!!
There are Phils assembled Islanders in Australia and PNG.
Sunny Woomera
http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=131
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britten...y_and_versions
I didn't know they were also built in romainia and the phillipines, I wonder how you can tell where they are built ?
They weren't built in the Philippines - they were assembled at PADC (Philippine Aerospace Development Corp) at NAIA Airport in Manila from "kits" supplied by Britten Norman. They were all 300 HP aircraft but interestingly enough, a number were assembled with used or overhauled engines, not the new engines supplied........ One of the Phils assembled Islanders had a later year of manufacture than the year it was actually built - but that is another story altogether!!
There are Phils assembled Islanders in Australia and PNG.
Sunny Woomera
I have flown the BN2A -26 and the -27. The difference being that the -27 had the tip tanks. Pretty sure that was the only difference between those two. I think the BN2B was a latter model with upgraded instrumentation, much needed 'cause man did those old engine T's & P's gauges suck.
Much preferred the tristar (MkIII)
Much preferred the tristar (MkIII)
Rate of climb or oil temp,which do you want? Cos in an Islander you cannot have both!
Bl++dy great aircraft but glad I don't fly them any more.
Chuck, were you pissed and reminiscing of flying the BN2?.....get a life man!
Bl++dy great aircraft but glad I don't fly them any more.
Chuck, were you pissed and reminiscing of flying the BN2?.....get a life man!
Had 260 donks on the BN3 long nose that I once flew. Tip tanks required but not so for the BN2 basic, whether it was kitted with 300 or 260's. Tips were an option as I recall on that less noisy of variants that Britten Norman produced.
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P2-SIL from memory...Summer Institute of Linguistics. Note the iron mongery around the nosewheel...it supports a deflector...seems they had a few double flameouts on landing due water being sprayed into, and no doubt blocking, the little Alison intake...or so one of it's pilots told me in about 98.
It is an amazingly conflicting feeling for the senses...to look up at a turbine sound and see a Bongo shape
Troppo is ISM, COD, ISJ and ISL still flying All ex Talair Lae based machines although we got COD from buying Co-Air...COD was the nicest to fly with it's, then new, Collins gear...ISM was a pain in the arse with those stupid rams horn Concord style control yokes but got airborne and climbed better than most...and it was a 260 from memory. ISL was a nice one.
It is an amazingly conflicting feeling for the senses...to look up at a turbine sound and see a Bongo shape
Troppo is ISM, COD, ISJ and ISL still flying
All ex Talair Lae based machines although we got COD from buying Co-Air...COD was the nicest to fly with it's, then new, Collins gear...ISM was a pain in the arse with those stupid rams horn Concord style control yokes but got airborne and climbed better than most...and it was a 260 from memory. ISL was a nice one.
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chuck, a bit vague now bu i'm pretty sure that COD and either ISM or ISJ are write offs. Might be wrong but I think COD was with Island Airways in Madang and was in a fatal maybe three years ago and I think it was ISM or ISJ that was in the fatal at Bapi or Amora down the Garaina valley about 5 years ago
in fact i am wrong it was CBB and ISA that I was thinking of so maybe they do live on!
in fact i am wrong it was CBB and ISA that I was thinking of so maybe they do live on!
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you said the exact same words when the Bapi crash was on here.
It was kinda short with a full load and downwind/slightly down hill take off
From memory it was a kiwi guy and i believe he stalled and spun into the ground. Flight Services at Nadzab got his taxi call but then it was a tea break, the slip fell off the board they use and under the table and know one knew for a couple of hours.
It was kinda short with a full load and downwind/slightly down hill take off
From memory it was a kiwi guy and i believe he stalled and spun into the ground. Flight Services at Nadzab got his taxi call but then it was a tea break, the slip fell off the board they use and under the table and know one knew for a couple of hours.