SBAP site update on 17-02-2013

Forwarded message From: Serge VAN HEERTUM

Dear aviation enthusiast,

This week on SBAP web site :

Events :

Fly to your dream @ Beauvechain: Meet your future job!

A special day for the youngsters in a decated area of
Beauvechain air base to discover the career possibilities
in the Belgian Air Force presented by Serge Van Heertum & Luc Dujardin

http://www.sbap.be/events/2013/003ebbeftyd2013/003ebbeftyd2013.htm

Archivalia : 

Belgian Air Force :

Lockheed F-104G Starfighter & Republic F-84F Thunderstreak

http://www.sbap.be/archivalia/pictures/picturesbaf3.htm

Sabena :

Bristol 170 Freighter & Convair 240

http://www.sbap.be/archivalia/sabena/picturessab2.htm

Belgian Civil Aircraft :

Cessna 170b & Boeing B-737-8BK

http://www.sbap.be/archivalia/belgciv/belgciv02.htm

Foreign in Belgium : 

Boeing B377 Stratocruiser & Ilyushin IL-12B "Coach"

http://www.sbap.be/foreign/foreign01.htm

Thanks for your support, enjoy your flight and always safe landing...

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Forwarded message From: Pâques Nadine 

DH 89A Dragon Rapide ZK-SWR (ex BAF D-7) heading for Germany

Thanks: Graeme Clardidge

 
We say goodbye to an old friend.
The DH Dragon Rapide ZK-SWR took off from the Bridge Pa airfield in Hastings last Saturday ( 12 th Jan) bound for Ardmore in the safe hands of Chris Hart the Pilot and part owner along with Steve Turner another part owner and his family In the coming weeks the Rapide will be stripped of it’s wings and made ready for the sea voyage back to Germany to it’s new owners.

A little bit about it’s background (Belgian Air Force De Havilland DH.89A Rapide C.1, D-7 (RAF NR777, c/n 6853) was struck off charge on 8 July 1955 and ending up stored away in a hangar at Deurne airport. Although this was known to the aeronautical world not all that many people had seen this aircraft before it was sold in 1994 to Ron Sough in the UK. In 1995 however a group of aviation enthusiast around Benno Tissi acquired the D-7 which was shipped from Southampton to New Zealand. Restoration started in Mandeville, NZ, with Croydon Aircraft Company, but it had to move from there and in 2001 the project was taken over by Southair of Taieri, Dunedin, NZ. Since then ZK-SWR, as the aircraft is registered now, has taken to the air and has moved to the Hawkes Bay Airport, Napier NZ.)

Source: Aerohub

Best regards,
Daniel