What aircraft did I see?
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What aircraft did I see?
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I hope this is the right place and way to post the question. Saw at Stuttgart (STR, EDDS), on the freight ramp, a smallish twin-propeller aircraft (appeared to be about half the size of a Hercules parked nearby) with a boxy (square) fuselage, high wing, dull white-and-blue paint scheme, no wing strakes [correction: struts] visible, sort of droopy nose, that looked almost, but not quite, like a CASA C212. What could it have been? Unfortunately have no pic as the light was fading.
I hope this is the right place and way to post the question. Saw at Stuttgart (STR, EDDS), on the freight ramp, a smallish twin-propeller aircraft (appeared to be about half the size of a Hercules parked nearby) with a boxy (square) fuselage, high wing, dull white-and-blue paint scheme, no wing strakes [correction: struts] visible, sort of droopy nose, that looked almost, but not quite, like a CASA C212. What could it have been? Unfortunately have no pic as the light was fading.
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Could have been a U.S. Army C-23B Sherpa. They are in the CENTCOM AOR and use Stuttgart AAF on trips back and forth to the US.
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Shorts Skyvan
Thought from your description that it may be a Shorts 'Skyvan' which I note from Wikipedia is still flying? Flew to BFS from PIK in one in the mid-sixties, skirted Ailsa Craig and scared the hell out of the resident gannet population. Airline was the original (I think ) Emerald Airways. Any recollections out there?
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Originally Posted by charliemac
Flew to BFS from PIK in one in the mid-sixties, skirted Ailsa Craig and scared the hell out of the resident gannet population. Airline was the original (I think ) Emerald Airways. Any recollections out there?
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Ringway, Jack, 58, charlie, Thanks a lot - I think it may have been a shorts 360 after all. Will try to see next time I'm around if it's there again.
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In case it was a S-360 check airliners.net for "Nightexpress" - although I have never seen it at STR.
You mentioned "high wing" and "no struts" (although you were not sure on this one). What about the AN-26 opb CityLine (cargo operator from Hungary)? They visit STR quite often.
I'll visit STR next week. Maybe I'll see what you saw
You mentioned "high wing" and "no struts" (although you were not sure on this one). What about the AN-26 opb CityLine (cargo operator from Hungary)? They visit STR quite often.
I'll visit STR next week. Maybe I'll see what you saw
