Two ROMBAC One-Elevens are still flying with Romavia. These are YR-BRE and YR-BRI and they are flying alongside the BAe 146s. I saw YR-BRE take off from Otopeni on 30Oct on an air test while YR-BRI was rolled-out after a maintenance input the same day. This last aircraft has recently been test flying with Stage 3 hush-kits but has now reverted to Stage two while the results of the programme are assessed by the Romanian authorities. As far as I am aware TAROM was the first Eastern Bloc carrier to operate new western built short haul jet airliners and I cannot recall Aeroflot buying or operating Caravelles. The Britannias and Viscounts operated in Czechoslavakia and Poland were used examples.

This is a fleet summary as per ATDB,

Saw one in the circuit at Boscombe yesterday at 15:00ish. It's funny how a once common sight can now seem so out of place, (T tail and rear mounted jets).

It's very rare that I venture into the spotter's section lol.

The Omani 1-11's are still flying.

No hushkits.......fabulous noise!

There's a few pics on airliners.net Nice pale blue and white colour scheme.

They'll be replaced fairly soon and am in the process of scrounging a ride on one soon if RAFO are feeling kind hearted.

Believe it or not, those RAFO One-Elevens are Stage 2 hush-kitted.

Actually, with the arrival of the Embraer and Canadair RJs there are now a couple of thousand T-tail rear-mounted jets around, far more in the air than in the heyday of the One-Eleven, DC9, et al.

WHBM
Hmmmmmmm, yeah, but,...........

I still maintain the T tail is a lesser breed now as I think back to the 1970's under the Ringway approach: 1-11, DC9, Tu134, F28, 727, Trident, Tu154, Il62, VC10, and I suppose Caravelles are almost T tails. Besides, the Embraer and RJ are not [I]real[I] airliners they're just stretched business jets.:E

Don't know.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1290753/M/

That's some business jet ! Must be longer than a basic One-Eleven.

And if you go to Russia the majority of the 134s and 154s are still around.

RAFO had the choise of finishing the hush kit to get them to stage 3 but decided not to go for it. The aircraft had the airframe side done but declined to pay the further money to finish the job.

A search was done to do the job through various agents but RR wrote quite a direct letter to RAFO HQ stating that if any ' outside modification agent' carried out the work then the warranty was null and void!

There was enough problems between CAA/FAA and RAFO stating they were the Air Authority and had the final say in what they could do with their a/c.

When the new minimum vertical separation limits were annouced they nearly had a hernia. This required an FMS at least, and for an air force that was still running its engineering software on 486 computers, (2001), this was the final straw.

Still, they were still, probably, the youngest 1-11s out there. (552 was a spring chicken. Lucky if she did 2 hours a week).

Remember the day's of freezing one's taiters of on "A" pier at ringway logging BA 1-11's.

Anyone remember the time G-AVMT was reverse pushed into a baggage truck.

Looked quite spectacular, but thankfully, I don't think anyone was hurt.

Akrotiri Boy,
So the F28 has gone, you might have just noticed some F70 & F100 replacements to it.

DC9, well MD80/MD90/B717, I still see a lot of TU134's when on my travels, even had the guts to fly on one a couple of years back, they're still around.