D-AFSD_1970ca_MUC_1600_ARC
Photo from the Andreas Rink collection, slide kindly provided for scanning by Florian Weiß.
München-Riem
ca. 1970
D-AFSD
Hawker Siddeley HS-748 Srs2/244
1656
Bundesanstalt für Flugsicherung (BFS, West German Flight Inspection)
A very early photo of this BFS calibration aircraft, seen here parked closed to the airport fence.
BFS operated seven HS-748 (D-AFSD, D-AFSE, D-AFSF, D-AFSG, D-AFSH, D-AFSI, D-AFSJ). D-AFSD was delivered on 19 December 1969 and withdrawn from use in May 1982 to go on to Canada; it was still active in May 2016 as a bulk fuel tanker with Wasaya Airways. D-AFSE had already been wfu in January 1982, D-AFSG was sold to Air Inuit in July 89, while D-AFSF, -H, -I and -J flew on for BFS until 1997.
The measuring equipment inside D-AFSD weighed 2.5t and included receivers, multimeters, sensors, oscilloscopes, computers, frequency analyzers, television cameras, monitors and various evaluation and communication equipment. 47 antennas had to be installed on the aircraft to send and receive the signals necessary for measurement purposes alone. The measurement equipment was designed and installed in the aircraft by MBB Hamburg. The last HS-748 (D-AFSJ, c/n 1727) intended for the BFS was delivered on April 8, 1976.
Source: jabog32.de/yaja/gfms.html
Information on the Gemeinsame Flugvermessungsstelle GFMS at Lechfeld Air Base where this aircraft served can also be found under jabog32.de/yaja/gfms.html.
This airframe as N57910 at PIK on delivery to the US in 1984:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/3/0/3/0748303.jpg
C-GLTC with Inter City Airways at YYZ in 1986:
www.flickr.com/photos/steelhead2010/6847070395
This airframe as C-GLTC with Air Ontario at YYZ in ca. 1987:
www.flickr.com/photos/100672308@N07/31497333826
C-GLTC with Kelner Cargo in May 1990:
www.flickr.com/photos/33932332@N07/3264856543
C-GLTC with Wasaya Airways at Red Lake Airport/ON (YRL) in July 2001:
www.flickr.com/photos/steelhead2010/8272342590
C-GLTC with Wasaya Airways stored engineless at Thunder Bay (YQT) in July 2017:
canavbooks.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/blog-18-nw-ontario...
Scan from slide (unknown brand).
D-AFSD_1970ca_MUC_1600_ARC
Photo from the Andreas Rink collection, slide kindly provided for scanning by Florian Weiß.
München-Riem
ca. 1970
D-AFSD
Hawker Siddeley HS-748 Srs2/244
1656
Bundesanstalt für Flugsicherung (BFS, West German Flight Inspection)
A very early photo of this BFS calibration aircraft, seen here parked closed to the airport fence.
BFS operated seven HS-748 (D-AFSD, D-AFSE, D-AFSF, D-AFSG, D-AFSH, D-AFSI, D-AFSJ). D-AFSD was delivered on 19 December 1969 and withdrawn from use in May 1982 to go on to Canada; it was still active in May 2016 as a bulk fuel tanker with Wasaya Airways. D-AFSE had already been wfu in January 1982, D-AFSG was sold to Air Inuit in July 89, while D-AFSF, -H, -I and -J flew on for BFS until 1997.
The measuring equipment inside D-AFSD weighed 2.5t and included receivers, multimeters, sensors, oscilloscopes, computers, frequency analyzers, television cameras, monitors and various evaluation and communication equipment. 47 antennas had to be installed on the aircraft to send and receive the signals necessary for measurement purposes alone. The measurement equipment was designed and installed in the aircraft by MBB Hamburg. The last HS-748 (D-AFSJ, c/n 1727) intended for the BFS was delivered on April 8, 1976.
Source: jabog32.de/yaja/gfms.html
Information on the Gemeinsame Flugvermessungsstelle GFMS at Lechfeld Air Base where this aircraft served can also be found under jabog32.de/yaja/gfms.html.
This airframe as N57910 at PIK on delivery to the US in 1984:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/3/0/3/0748303.jpg
C-GLTC with Inter City Airways at YYZ in 1986:
www.flickr.com/photos/steelhead2010/6847070395
This airframe as C-GLTC with Air Ontario at YYZ in ca. 1987:
www.flickr.com/photos/100672308@N07/31497333826
C-GLTC with Kelner Cargo in May 1990:
www.flickr.com/photos/33932332@N07/3264856543
C-GLTC with Wasaya Airways at Red Lake Airport/ON (YRL) in July 2001:
www.flickr.com/photos/steelhead2010/8272342590
C-GLTC with Wasaya Airways stored engineless at Thunder Bay (YQT) in July 2017:
canavbooks.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/blog-18-nw-ontario...
Scan from slide (unknown brand).