The Da-42s in Flight this week. http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/07/15/329682/diamond-da42s-shone-during-rafs-iraq-mission.html The photo appears to be taken at Wiener Neustadt.
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It would appear that the DA-42s had a swift - for a DA-42 - trip back from dusty places via Amman, Akrotiri, Corfu and Wiener Neustadt. Callsigns used were Ascot 3776 (ZA180) and Ascot 3778 (ZA179). All three of the Da-42s recovered into Boscombe Down. I assume that they are still there as they have not been reported in the wild since. perhaps they're having their mode-S boxes fixed as on the day these photos were taken they were showing hex 43C5BA callsign ZA179 (actually ZA179/callsign G-DOSA) but this code is Alphajet ZJ645 hex 43C5B9 callsign G-DOSC (actually ZA180/ callsign G-DOSB) hex 4403F0 callsign G-DOSC (callsign G-DOSC) hex of OE-FOG it's previous ID I guess they borrowed the mode-S boxes from QinetiQ for the flight home.....
Yesterday evening, DA-42s ZA179 and ZA180 flew into Old Sarum from Wiener-Neustadt under Ascot callsigns. Here they are this morning on Old Sarums carefully manicured grass before departing for a formation photo shoot with sister ship G-DOSC (which departed Boscombe Down) and photo ship G-DPEP an Aero AT-3 prior to DA-42 recovery into Boscombe Down.
DA-42 MPP OE-FOG has finally taken up UK marks as G-DOSC. It left Boscombe Down on the evening of 11-Mar for a two day stay at Aviation Maintenance (AVM) at Bournemouth returning yesterday evening, 13-Mar, to Old Sarum where it is pictured on the morning of 14-Mar. The British Military fin flash on the tail is not applied (or taped over) and it has yet to acquire the 'Royal Air Force' titles that its predecessors G-DOSA and G-DOSB showed well before they took up Military serials of ZA179 and ZA180. Although the titling is DA42MPP, according to G-INFO it is a DA.42M c/n 001.
They're doing some spring cleaning of the HASs containing the Rasperry Ripple fleet. Tornado ZA326 is spending most of the week sat on the south side of the airfield folornly minus rudder. In an open HAS a Jaguar T.2 and what looked like another Jaguar were visible. The Mil Mi-17s didn't fly this morning and only appeared after two Gazelles appeared from Middle Wallop callsign Cordon 04 and 06. Last week the Gazelles were Sandrat 04 and 06. They're supposedly here for training but as both arrived with 1 POB I guess they must be part of the Mil crew.
G-DOSC DA42M was 'in the wild' yesterday on a mission from Old Sarum. The crew - sounding very civil - mention that the aircraft is Boscombe Down based. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfQaHJ7GxLM&layer_token=6a8e39f4e6169bbd On SBS it is still using OE-FOG mode-S code with GDOSC in the Aircraft ID field. Not sure whether the G- reg is painted on the airframe now.
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