Unfortunately this aircraft was written off on 27th December 2006 after a loss of power on both engines during a ferry flight from Tauranga Airport (TRG) to a maintenance facility at Hamilton Airport (HLZ) caused the pilot to make a forced landing in a tidal estuary.

Del 09 January 1989 Former British Midland Airways as G-OBMC,TAESA as XA-SGJ, Ansett Australia,Qantas as VH-CZS,Jetconnect - Qantas NZ as ZK-CZS,Registered to Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services (AWAS) as N240TF,Comair as ZS-OAI

Del 12 June 1992 Former Olympic Airways as SX-ERC (NTU),The Boeing Company,LAN Airlines as CC-CEY, Aeromexico as XA-RVY,LAN Airlines as CC-CDJ

Del 18 October 1984 Registered to Jet Midwest Group LLC as N749JM

Del 03 December 1984

Landing in the setting sun. Used by FR Aviation for a fisheries patrol contract and other work.

Although this arrived from Old Sarum on 18th February 2005, it took a while for it to be rebuilt and here the Leopard is seen in a rig shortly before it was put back together again.

Turning onto runway 26 for a late afternoon departure.

This is still here, on plinth near the threshold of Runway 26. The aircraft is a composite of (mainly) Danish Hunter T7 ET-272 and Hunter FGA9 XJ690, hence the single seat nose! The aircraft has a plaque commemorating the late Mike Carlton, the founder of Hunter One/Jet Heritage, who was killed in a Republic Seabee crash in Zimbabwe in August 1986, along with his wife.

My first opportunity to photograph a VLM Fokker since they started to fly to the Island from LCY