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Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version, plus Topaz DeNoise AI 13-Nov-23.
Previously Suckling Airways.
First flown in Feb-96 with the Dornier test registration D-CDXT, this aircraft was leased to Air Stord (Norway) as LN-ASL in Jun-96. It was wet-leased to Proteus Airlines (France) in Jun-97.
The aircraft returned to Air Stord in Mar-98 and was leased to Proteus Airlines again in Oct-98. Air Stord declared bankruptcy on 19-Feb-99, the aircraft was returned to Air Stord and the lessor the same day. It was stored at Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany and re-registered D-CDUL in Mar-99.
In Jul-99 the aircraft was leased to Suckling Airways (UK), as G-BYML. Suckling was rebranded as Scot Airways at the end of Oct-99 after a major investment by the owners of the Scottish transport company 'Stagecoach'.
Scot Airways merged with Irish Airline, CityJet in Aug-07 for operations into London-City Airport. However it became Scot Airways again in Mar-09 when the aircraft was withdrawn from service and stored at Cambridge, UK.
The aircraft was returned to the lessor and sold to SEAIR - South East Asian Airlines (Philippines) as RP-C7328 at the end of Jul-09. The company was renamed SEAir International in Nov-12. It was permanently retired at Manila(?), Philippines in Oct-15. Updated 14-Nov-23.
CB887 Amsterdam-Schiphol-Southampton.
Msn 3022
Delivered to Suckling Airways in November 1996 as G-BWWT then to Scot Airways in October 1999. Leased to Cityjet in February 2008, Aer Arran in February 2011 and Suckling Airways in July 2011. Moved to Flybe in February 2012 with a lease to Loganair in April 2013 beofre moving to MHS Aviation as D-CMHC in February 2016.
G-BYML, Dornair Do328-110 (CM 3069) of Suckling Airways trading as ScotAirways seen at Dundee Airport on 15 Juy 2005. Originaly delivered to Air Stord as LN-ASC in June 1996, the aircraft was sold to DSF as D-DCUL in 1999, before onward lease to Suckling Airways in July of that year. Laterally operated in CityJet colours the aircraft was stored at Cambridge before sale to South East Asia Airlines as RP-C7328 in September 2009, rebranded as SEAir International in 2012. The aircraft is reported as stored. The second Tay Railway Bridge visible behind. Scanned from an original 35 mm colour negative via Hasselblad X-5.
UK, started operations in 1986, renamed to Scot Airways in 1999, please see spoon www.flickr.com/photos/airlinespoons/4016738000
13,4cm
The airline was formally established in 2001 (but had been operating since 1999 as a small operation) by Le Cocq's Stores in Alderney and was initially known as Le Cocq's Airlink. It started operations carrying perishable goods from Bournemouth to Alderney. Scheduled services were added on the same route on 1 February 2002. The Rockhopper name was adopted on 29 August 2003.[2] In 2004 ownership changed to Healthspan Leisure and in 2005, Jetstream aircraft were added to the fleet.[3] The company moved its main operating base from Alderney to Jersey in January 2006. Its Headquarters is now at Healthspan House, The Grange, St. Peter Port, Guernsey. The airline is wholly owned by the Healthspan Group.[2] The company changed the trading name from Rockhopper to Blue Islands on 14 February 2006. The move coincided with the delivery of the first of its new fleet of 19-seater BAe Jetstream aircraft and a new air link with the Isle of Man.
The deployment of the BAe Jetstream aircraft on inter-island services meant Blue Islands gained a majority share of the market from its competitor (according to Airliner World magazine), helped by the recent introduction of an hourly shuttle service between Guernsey and Jersey known as the Blue Shuttle. At December 2007, Blue Islands' estimated share of the inter-island market was reported to be over 50% and in December 2009 their market share had risen to 68%. Blue Islands went on to launch new routes from the Channel Islands to Paris-Beauvais (ceased July 2008), Southampton, Geneva and Zurich. However, by late 2010 their market share on the inter-island had fallen to below 50% and its main competitor Aurigny was regaining large shares in the Channel Islands market.[4]
Blue Islands have been offering cargo services on all their flights throughout their network for a number of years. They flew in unique Madagascan birds for Durrell Conservation Wildlife Trust from Zurich during June 2009[5]. In 2010 the airline added an ATR 42-320 and a Dornier 328-110 (leased from ScotAirways) to its fleet; the latter was retired shortly afterwards.[3] It emerged in July 2010 that Blue Islands had launched a bid with the States of Guernsey to buy its competitor, Aurigny Air Services. This caused much controversy in the Channel Islands, and a Facebook page in opposition of proposed buy-out gained 530 members. Those in favour of the deal claimed that it was nonsensical for Aurigny and Blue Islands to continue making such huge annual losses. The failure of the deal was announced on 14 September 2010.
A number of changes took place in 2011. Rob Veron was appointed as chairman and the Trislander fleet was repainted and refitted for a planned new hub at Alderney with routes to Southampton and Cherbourg, however the application was denied because the start date was within six months of the application date[6]. Blue Islands announced that a full withdrawal from Alderney would take place on 9 May 2011[7] (coincidentally Liberation Day), after 11 years of services.
In March 2011, it announced a new twice daily weekday route (with a once-daily flight on Sundays) from Jersey to London City Airport[8], and in April a route to Bristol was announced. Daily services were announced between Jersey and Manchester Airport[9] in September, along with the restoration of a three times weekly service to Bournemouth Airport[10], in competition with the airline's own more regular services to Southampton, as well as those of Flybe. In November, the planned retirement of the Trislander fleet was made public with the last day of operations on 4 December[11]. This was because they were 'too noisy, old and small'[12] - however, it is not the first time that the Trislanders have been under offer; one aircraft left Blue Islands for Great Barrier Airlines in New Zealand in March 2008, whilst the other two aircraft were under offer from an unnamed Caribbean airline in September 2010[13].
TORY LORD IN AIR RAGE ARREST; COPS CALLED ON TO FLIGHT AFTER ROW.
Date:Dec 21, 2006
Daily Record
Byline: By Brian McCartney
A LORD who was Scotland's top lawman has been arrested over an alleged air rage incident.
Lord Fraser of Carmyllie was escorted off a flight by police at Dundee Airport.
The Tory peer was Lord Advocate from 1989 to 1992.
Witnesses claimed he smelled of drink and argued with a female steward on Tuesday night's delayed ScotAirways flight from London City Airport.
A passenger said: "When he got on the later one, he had been hanging around for quite a few hours.
"He berated a female member of the cabin crew about the delay.
"He was smelling strongly of drink and requested more drink but was refused.
"When that happened he became disruptive again and the female crew member became alarmed as did some of the other passengers."
Last night, Tayside Police confirmed that a 61-year-old man had been charged and a report sent to the procurator fiscal.
It is believed to be the first time that a former Lord Advocate has been charged with a criminal offence.
Lord Fraser, born Peter Fraser, was among passengers whose ScotAirways flight was delayed for more than three hours.
Fog in London led to it being cancelled and travellers were put on to a later flight. The plane's pilot called ahead for police assistance after a stewardess complained Fraser was being disruptive.
Officers were waiting for the flight when it touched down in Dundee at around 9.20pm.
Fraser - a former Tory minister - was asked to stay in his seat until other passengers had cleared arrivals.
He was arrested and taken to police HQ at Bell Street. The QC was not held overnight.
Police refused to give details of the charges against the politician, who was MP for Angus South then Angus East.
He was appointed Solicitor General, the No2 job in the prosecution service, under the Thatcher government in 1982.
Fraser served there for seven years before getting the top job in the Crown Office and being made a peer.
Now one of his successors, current Lord Advocate Elish Angiolini, could help decide how the case proceeds.
Last night, a Crown Office spokesman said: "Crown counsel have considered a report from Tayside Police and have instructed further inquiries before any decision is taken on proceedings."
During his time as Lord Advocate, Fraser had ultimate responsibility for the prosecution of the Lockerbie bombing investigation.
He drew up the 1991 indictment against the two accused Libyans and issued warrants for their arrest.
He has since cast doubt on the reliability of the main prosecution witness.
Fraser was also appointed to carry out the inquiry into the massive overspending involved in building the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood.
Earlier this month, he clashed with Labour over independence - branding their assault on nationalism "pathetic".
He said: "With a relatively right-wing government in the EU with low tax levels, there is no reason why Scotland could not make a go of it."
Labour grandees saw the remarks as particulary cutting because while in office Fraser had always been a unionist.
Nobody was available for comment at the Fraser home, in Carmyllie, near Arbroath.
CAPTION(S):
HIGH FLIER: Lord Fraser caught a ScotAirways flight' RIGHT WINGER: Fraser was arrested at Dundee Airport, left, and taken to police HQ at Bell Street, centre, for questioning. Above, Fraser's home at Carmyllie
The Fedex A300 is dwarfed by the sheer scale of the new Terminal, Dublin 24/06/2009.
Also parked in the corner stand is Scot Airways Dornier 328 G-BWIR (in Cityjet colours).
Dornier 328 with special Dundee 'City of Discovery' markings.
G-BYMK departed Dundee for the last time (23rd August 2017) on her way to the USA for scrapping.
UK, founded as Suckling Aviation in 1982, now operating mostly for CityJet, spoon with the name on front and Titan - the manufacturer on the reverse
13,8cm
Just about to touch down at London City Airport, taken from the other side of the Royal Albert dock. Crummy contrajour light, but couldn't resist snapping it as it passed. London Borough of Newham.
Small Loganair titles just visible on the right hand side of the entrance door.
The aircraft was sold to Germany as D-CMHD in September 2016.
CB887 Amsterdam-Schiphol-Southampton.
Msn 3022
Delivered to Suckling Airways in November 1996 as G-BWWT then to Scot Airways in October 1999. Leased to Cityjet in February 2008, Aer Arran in February 2011 and Suckling Airways in July 2011. Moved to Flybe in February 2012 with a lease to Loganair in April 2013 beofre moving to MHS Aviation as D-CMHC in February 2016.
Ran services from Cambridge Airport to Manchester & Amsterdam using the 18 seat 'Dornier 228' turbo-prop aircraft type for this timetable period.
Dornier 328-100
Msn 3023
Scot Airways
Also operated for Suckling Airways, Air UK, Cityjet, Aer Arran, Loganair, MHS Aviation and Rhein-Neckar Air and as D-CMHA. Scrapped in November 2023.
ScotAirway's Dornier 328 110 G-BZOG is pictured about to depart Newcastle Airport on January 17th 2009 having arrived with the Sunderland team that lost 7-2 at Chelsea the previous day. Also in the frame is Reims Cessna F152 G-BKWY (1940).
Replacing an earlier digital photo with a better version 24-Apr-20.
First flown in Jan-96 with the Dornier test registration D-CDXE, this aircraft was leased to Air Stord (Norway) as LN-ASK in May-96. Dornier sold it to a lessor in Jun-97 while the lease to Air Stord continued. It was wet-leased to Proteus Airlines (France) in Mar-98. The aircraft returned to Air Stord and the lessor in Feb-99 and stored at Oberpfaffenhofen. It was leased to Suckling Airways as G-BYMK in Jun-99. Suckling Airways was re-branded as Scot Airways in Oct-99 after the Scottish Transport Company made a major investment. It was transferred back to Suckling Airways (Cambridge) Ltd the following month and leased back to Scot Airways. In Aug-07 the company was part-merged into CityJet Airlines for operations out of London-City Airport. The agreement was terminated in Jan-11 when it became Scot Airways again. Scot Airways was renamed Suckling Airways (Cambridge) Ltd again in Sep-11. It was merged into Loganair in Apr-13. Loganair entered a franchise agreement with FlyBe Airlines in Mar-14 and the aircraft was operated in FlyBe livery. The franchise agreement was terminated in Jul-17 and the aircraft returned to Loganair and was parked at Dundee. It was ferried to Bangor, Maine, USA in Aug-17 and permanently retired. It was broken up at Bangor in 2018.
An airframe which was a regular at Edinburgh in several guises.
New to Air Stord as LN-ASK in 1996, it came to the British register as G-BYMK in 1999 with Suckling Airways which quickly morphed into ScotAirways and later to Loganair.
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Scot Airways Dornier Do328 G-BYHG is pictured, still partly in its old Blue Islands Air colours, at Newcastle Airport on March 23rd 2010.