Tikaboo Tales

Today at Boscombe Down, DA-42MPP OE-FOG departed at 0930 for a short hop to Old Sarum. It 'recovered' to Boscombe Down at 1200. As it was flown by a Brit and it 'reovered' this would suggest it's being evaluated here now that ZA179 and ZA180 (the erstwhile G-DOSA and G-DOSB) have migrated south. The greyed out flash on the fin looks like it's in exactly the same place as the UK Military flash on G-DOSA and G-DOSB aka ZA179 and ZA180. I've just looked up OE-FOG in my database and it says it's DA42 construction number M.001 owned by DO Systems (as the others were) and has G-DOSC reserved! Unfotunately the sun disappeared before I could get a reasonable shot of Chinook HC.3 ZH898 and its downwash managed to blow open a farm gate into the back of the car!

I seem to have forgotten to add a link to this year's Tikaboo trip....

I can recommend Goa for an aviation break in the sun. The IndiGo departure gates are upstairs in the domestic terminal and afford an excellent view of the military action (assuming you're there before 1300ish on a weekday as the mil seem to mostly fly AM and domestic flights PM). These aren't great as I was bins-ing before snapping photos, but give an idea

So the story to date is that follwing a few weeks in the Aviation Maintenance hangar at Bournemouth where they were reasonably well guarded ('can I come in the hangar?' 'no') departed for Lyneham as Ascot 9901/2. Then G-DOSA and G-DOSB were reborn as ZA179 and ZA180, departed Lyneham on migration to warmer places and were last heard of in Aqaba, Jordan.