F-BHRU_1978-04-29_MUC_1600_AM
Photo taken by Andreas Müller, scan kindly provided by Michael Bernhard for inclusion on this page.
München-Riem
1978-04-29 (29 April 1978)
F-BHRU “Poitou”
Sud SE-210 Caravelle III
58
Air France
F-BHRU is lined up for take-off on Riem’s runway 25. This Caravelle’s cockpit would later be preserved and used as a fixed-base simulator at Ismaning near Munich from 2015 (moved to Sweden in January 2022 and now in use at Bunge Flygmuseum, Fårösund, Sweden).
Information from flycaravelle.com:
F-BHRU “Poitou” construction number 58, flew for the first time from Toulouse Blagnac airport on November 3, 1960 and was in service with Air France until it was decommissioned on August 28, 1980 when ferried from Charles to Gaulle airport to Paris Orly airport.
After being scrapped between November 1980 and April 1981, the cockpit was stored in a training center for air traffic controllers at Orly for 13 years. There it was originally supposed to be converted into a simulator. The project that was started was never completed for financial reasons. The cockpit almost ended up in the scrap heap in 1993. It was accidentally discovered and rescued by a member of the French association “Jean Bapiste Salis” from la Ferté Alais near Paris.
In cooperation with the “Le Caravelle Club” in Stockholm, which owns the last functioning Caravelle, software and hardware developer cockpit-concept.de and our knowledge as commercial pilots, a true-to-the-original simulator has been created from the cockpit, which has been in use since October 2015 in Ismaning near Munich. It was moved from Munich to Gotland, Sweden in January 2022.
Source: www.flycaravelle.com/ (see here for many more photos)
Daily Mail article on Nils Alegren’s F-BHRU cockpit restoration project (including photos):
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7245679/Pilot-spends-80-...
F-BHRU with Air France at EDI in January 1962 (bare metal belly):
www.airhistory.net/photo/356894/F-BHRU
F-BHRU with Air France at LHR in April 1973 (bare metal belly):
www.flickr.com/photos/158949556@N05/40692069710
F-BHRU’s cockpit at La Ferte Alais, France, in July 2006:
www.flickr.com/photos/158949556@N05/41777454474
F-BHRU’s cockpit at Oberschleißheim (EDNX) leaving for Ismaning in October 2013:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/4/8/7/2346784.jpg
F-BHRU’s cockpit restored as a simulator at Ismaning, Germany, in October 2014:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/6/8/5/2518586.jpg
View from F-BHRU’s cockpit at Ismaning in May 2016:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/5/8/5/2827585.jpg
F-BHRU’s packaged for the trip to Sweden at XFW in January 2022 (together with ex-Lufthansa 707 D-ABOD’s cockpit):
www.flickr.com/photos/digro/51826830533
www.flickr.com/photos/digro/51827064984
www.flickr.com/photos/digro/51827064929
Scan from Kodachrome slide.
F-BHRU_1978-04-29_MUC_1600_AM
Photo taken by Andreas Müller, scan kindly provided by Michael Bernhard for inclusion on this page.
München-Riem
1978-04-29 (29 April 1978)
F-BHRU “Poitou”
Sud SE-210 Caravelle III
58
Air France
F-BHRU is lined up for take-off on Riem’s runway 25. This Caravelle’s cockpit would later be preserved and used as a fixed-base simulator at Ismaning near Munich from 2015 (moved to Sweden in January 2022 and now in use at Bunge Flygmuseum, Fårösund, Sweden).
Information from flycaravelle.com:
F-BHRU “Poitou” construction number 58, flew for the first time from Toulouse Blagnac airport on November 3, 1960 and was in service with Air France until it was decommissioned on August 28, 1980 when ferried from Charles to Gaulle airport to Paris Orly airport.
After being scrapped between November 1980 and April 1981, the cockpit was stored in a training center for air traffic controllers at Orly for 13 years. There it was originally supposed to be converted into a simulator. The project that was started was never completed for financial reasons. The cockpit almost ended up in the scrap heap in 1993. It was accidentally discovered and rescued by a member of the French association “Jean Bapiste Salis” from la Ferté Alais near Paris.
In cooperation with the “Le Caravelle Club” in Stockholm, which owns the last functioning Caravelle, software and hardware developer cockpit-concept.de and our knowledge as commercial pilots, a true-to-the-original simulator has been created from the cockpit, which has been in use since October 2015 in Ismaning near Munich. It was moved from Munich to Gotland, Sweden in January 2022.
Source: www.flycaravelle.com/ (see here for many more photos)
Daily Mail article on Nils Alegren’s F-BHRU cockpit restoration project (including photos):
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7245679/Pilot-spends-80-...
F-BHRU with Air France at EDI in January 1962 (bare metal belly):
www.airhistory.net/photo/356894/F-BHRU
F-BHRU with Air France at LHR in April 1973 (bare metal belly):
www.flickr.com/photos/158949556@N05/40692069710
F-BHRU’s cockpit at La Ferte Alais, France, in July 2006:
www.flickr.com/photos/158949556@N05/41777454474
F-BHRU’s cockpit at Oberschleißheim (EDNX) leaving for Ismaning in October 2013:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/4/8/7/2346784.jpg
F-BHRU’s cockpit restored as a simulator at Ismaning, Germany, in October 2014:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/6/8/5/2518586.jpg
View from F-BHRU’s cockpit at Ismaning in May 2016:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/5/8/5/2827585.jpg
F-BHRU’s packaged for the trip to Sweden at XFW in January 2022 (together with ex-Lufthansa 707 D-ABOD’s cockpit):
www.flickr.com/photos/digro/51826830533
www.flickr.com/photos/digro/51827064984
www.flickr.com/photos/digro/51827064929
Scan from Kodachrome slide.