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Cranfield Airshow 2016 - Festival of Flight.

Operated by FAAM - The Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements who are based at Cranfield. The aircraft is operated for FAAM by Directflight and used to be based at Cranfield but I think it now flies out of Prestwick.

The 1981 build BAe 146 prototype still going strong having only mounted up 6000 hours.

 

Now used for a variety of tasks including Aerial Surveillance, Pollution Monitoring and Atmospheric Research. (Cheers Robbie!)

 

DirectFlight FAAM - Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements

British Aerospace BAe 146-301

G-LUXE

Royal International Air Tattoo

RAF Fairford, England

12th July 2014

This juvenile eagle took off directly towards me as I was splashing in the ocean water trying to keep my camera steady :-)

BAE 146-301

Natural Environment Research Council

Dublin 28/5/2015

Metman 1 diverted into Dublin today with a smell of smoke in the cabin.

Rheims F406 Caravan II

cn: F406-065

ff: 1991

 

04-1992 G-SFPB Directflight

Fisheries Patrol aircraft,

opf Scottish Fisheries Protection

 

04-2004 G-SFPB Highland Airways, Fisheries Patrol aircraft

opf Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency

 

A rare and interesting guest parked below the control tower at FBU August 14th 1998

Reims F406 Caravan ll (G-MAFB) at the time operated by Direct Flight and - I believe - in a sea fisheries patrol capacity at the time.

Direct Flight / Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements.

 

Arriving at Newquay Airport,

20th June 2017.

Cranfield Airshow 2016 - Festival of Flight.

Operated by Cranfield based Directflight for Marine Scotland on maritime surveillance work. The aircraft now also carries QinetiQ titles.

G-LUXE British Aerospace 146-301 Research Aircraft of FAAM which is the result of a collaboration between the Met Office(TM) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and has been established as part of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) to provide an aircraft measurement platform for use by all the UK atmospheric research community on campaigns throughout the world. The modified BAE 146 aircraft (jet type) is owned by BAE Systems and operated for them by Directflight. The Home Base is at Cranfield University, Bedfordshire

Three shots of the landing 146 today at Cranfield to show the aircraft in the final seconds of flight. A different idea, and one that needs some finessing but may have potential.

 

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G-MAFB R/Cessna F406 Caravan II [F406-0080] (Directflight Ltd) Inverness (Dalcross)~G 06/02/2023.Taken by Al Pecha.

Directflight Britten-Norman Islander (operated by Airtask) G-SICB taken during its quick turn around at Foula Airstrip having made the short trip from Lerwick Tingwall.

This was the BAe 146-100 prototype (formerly G-SSSH) and was later rebuilt as the 146-300 prototype before further modification as the Atmospheric Research Aircraft (ARA) as seen here. The orange radome was a replacement item (from an ex-TNT airframe) fitted after damage sustained from a lightning strike.

G-LUXE BAe 146-300 Directflight @ RIAT 2024, RAF Fairford 19/07/2024

G-LUXE : BAe 146-301ARA : Directflight

The original first prototype 146, later converted from a -100 to a -300, now used in its later years for Atmospheric Research.

Directflight Limited Reims-Cessna F406 Caravan II G-MAFB on display at Royal Air Force Waddington during the Waddington International Air Show. Sunday 6th July 2014

 

Note, G-MAFB was built by Reims Aviation SA in France in 1997, being registered as G-MAFB to the company on 27th May 1998. It was purchased by Direct Flight Limited, being registered to the company on 22nd July 1998. Direct Flight Limited was renamed as Directflight Limited on 6th September 1999

 

Ref no Canon EOS60D 2nd series - IMG_7194

G-MAFA

R/Cessna F.406 Caravan II

c/n F406-0036

@ Cranfield ~ 31.07.2016

'QinetiQ' 'Maritime Patrol' 'DirectFlight'

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