The successes, trials and tribulations of converting a scrapped aircraft cockpit into a simulator in my garage

G-BVOB (c/n 10366)HISTORY

First flight 27Jul68. Fokker Test registration PH-FMN.

Delivered to initial customer French airline Air Inter on 03Aug1968, registered F-BPNA

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G-BVOB (c/n 10366)HISTORY

Sold to Brazilian airline Rio Sul. Registered PT-LZM and delivered 25Nov86

Withdrawn from service August 1992 and stored Rio de Janeiro.

Ferried to Miami 16May93, then stored at Mena, Arizona.

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G-BVOB (c/n 10366)HISTORY

Re-registered PH-FMN by owners Aircraft Financing and Trading BV. ferried to Norwich 09Mar94.

Delivered to AirUK as G-BVOB

Sold/Leased ? to Jersey European Airways.

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G-BVOB (c/n 10366)HISTORY

Sold to BAC Group and delivered to BAC Express in 1997.

Converted to E-Class full-freighter.

Ferried to Southend 08Jul05 for storage.

Fuselage scrapped 21Oct09.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Back to Work

After the weather problems at the start of the year, and frozen water mains, things are back to normal. The garage is almost finished, just waiting for the doors and it'll be a week away from completion.

The cockpit is mobile again, Derrick has fabricated a frame for it to sit on. The mounting at the front is particularly neat using the nose gear mounting points on the forward bulkhead. It's really easy to push around; adding a couple of grab handles will finish things off. There's a bit of heavy work to clean up and enclose the back and then we can sort out the control links and start work on the panels.


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