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Today at Boscombe Down the DO Systems Beech 200 N509MV departed at around 1230 for a short hop to Blackbushe. It's a 1981 vintage machine. There's photos on the HTML part of the DO Systems website http://www.dosystems.co.uk showing the aircraft on the ramp at Boscombe Down plus one presumably on delivery through Goose Bay? and for some reason a more ancient photo of it. It looks like DO Systems have hangar space aat Boscombe as the DA42s and the Beech 200 seem to live here.
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The photos from the DO Systems photoshoot have now made it into their website http://www.dosystems.co.uk/html_site/air_ops_content/surveillance_content.html Which suggests that they're looking for a new customer as ZA179 and ZA180 have reverted to G-DOSA and G-DOSB according to G-INFO. No reports in the wild as such yet though. Maybe they're at Boscombe having the Kevlar floor removed....
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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.....
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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.
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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.