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VH-NJV. British Aerospace 146-100. c/n E1002. Was also registered as: G-SSHH; G-OPSA; N5828B; N801RW; G-BPNP; N720BA; G-BSTA. |
This aircraft was the second British Aerospace BAe146 prototype Entered onto the British Aircraft Register as G-BIAE (CofR G-BIAER/1) - July 28, 1980 Registered to British Aerospace Aircraft Group, Hatfield, England Reregistered as G-SSHH (CofR G-SSHH/R1) - May 29, 1981 Registered to British Aerospace Aircraft Division, Hatfield, England Rolled off the British Aerospace production line at Hatfield Airport - January 01, 1982 Powered by four Textron Lycoming ALF502-R3 engines First flown as 'G-SSHH' at Hatfield - January 25, 1982 Conducted five icing test flights behind the Boscombe Downs Canberra 'WV787' - January - February 1982 It was displayed at 1982 Farnborough Air Show in the Dan-Air London livery as 'G-SSHH' - September 1982 Based in Iceland and Greenland for icing tests - January - February 1983 Reregistered as G-OPSA (CofR G-OPSAR/1) - January 20, 1984 Registered to British Aerospace Aircraft Division, Hatfield, England Refurbished at the BAe Chester facility for a pending sales tour of the United States - March 1984 Departed Hatfield to conduct a 16 day tour of the United States (Captain D. Gurney) - March 17, 1984 Loaned to Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) for 2 months based at San Diego - April - May 1984 Was used to convert 64 PSA pilots onto the type with the aircraft flying 623 hours and 1,391 cycles during training Cancelled from the British Aircraft Register - September 28, 1984 It was allocated the registration 'G-5-146' for the ferry flight to the United States - October 09, 1984 Registered to British Aerospace Entered onto the United States Aircraft Register as N5828B - October 12, 1984 Registered to Pacific Southwest Airlines Leased to Pacific Southwest Airlines as the registered operator - October 12, 1984 Returned to British Aerospace at the end of the lease - March 25, 1985 Cancelled from the United States Aircraft Register - ? Entered onto the British Aircraft Register as G-SSHH (CofR G-SSHH/R2) - March 25, 1985 Registered to British Aerospace Civil Aircraft Group, Hatfield, England It was allocated the registration 'G-5-005' for the ferry flight to the United States - May 08, 1986 Cancelled from the British Aircraft Register - May 09, 1986 Entered onto the United States Aircraft Register as N801RW - June 1986 Leased to Royal West Airlines as the registered operator - June 09, 1986 Sold to Royal West Airlines - July 1986 The aircraft was repossessed by Jet Acceptance Corporation - May 28, 1987 Leased to Dan-Air London - August 29, 1987 Entered onto the British Aircraft Register as G-BPNP (CofR G-BPNP/R1) - September 02, 1987 Registered to British Aerospace PLC Civil Aviation Division, Hatfield, England Returned to British Aerospace - November 10, 1987 Cancelled from the British Aircraft Register - November 30, 1987 Transferred to Jet Acceptance Corporation - December 03, 1987 Entered onto the United States Aircraft Register as N720BA - December 03, 1987 Leased to American Airlines as the registered operator - December 04, 1987 Returned to Jet Acceptance Corporation at the end of the lease - February 16, 1988 Cancelled from the United States Aircraft Register - March 07, 1988 Entered onto the British Aircraft Register as G-BPNP (CofR G-BPNP/R2) - March 08, 1988 Registered to British Aerospace Civil Aircraft Division, Hatfield, England It was converted to BAe-146-100STA by Hayes International, Birmingham, Alabama - May 1988 This conversion involved the fitting of a freight door, roller floor in the rear cabin and 16 seats in the forward cabin Reregistered as G-BSTA (CofR G-BSTA/R1) - July 12, 1988 Registered to British Aerospace PLC Airlines Division, Hatfield, England First flown following the conversion to a 'Side Loading Tactical Airlifter' - August 02, 1988 Arrived Hatfield in a glossy camouflage livery - August 11, 1988 Delivered to Cranfield Air Services for preparation for the 1988 Farnborough Air Show - August 11, 1988 A dummy inflight refuelling probe and an air openable paratroop door were fitted Repainted into a matt camouflage livery during the preparation Departed on a 30,000 km tour of South East Asia, New Zealand and Australia - September 1988 Displayed at the 1988 Australian Bicentennial Air Show at Sydney (RAAF Richmond) - October 09, 1988 Embarked on a Middle East sales tour - January - February 1989 Departed Hatfield for a sales tour of Canada and the United States - May 06, 1989 It was displayed at the 1989 Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport - June 1989 Flown to Algeria for a sales tour - January 1990 Flown to Langenlebarn Air Force Base, Austria for demonstration to the Austrian authorities - April 1990 It was displayed at the 2000 Farnborough Air Show - September 2000 Repainted by Field Aircraft Services in Austrian Government livery at East Midlands Airport - November 1990 Aircraft carried 'Republik Obsterreich' titles and registration marks 'OE-BRL' The intended aircraft lease to the Austrian Government did not proceed It was sold to Trident Aviation Leasing Services (Jersey) Ltd, St Helier, Jersey - July 04, 1991 Registered to Trident Aviation Leasing Services (Jersey) Ltd, St Helier, Jersey (CofR G-BSTA/R2) - July 04, 1991 Leased to Safair, South Africa - August 08, 1991 Cancelled from the British Aircraft Register - August 13, 1991 Entered onto the South African Aircraft Register as ZS-NCA - August 13, 1991 Returned to Trident Aviation Leasing Services at the end of the lease - January 31, 1993 Cancelled from the South African Aircraft Register - ? It was observed at Woodford as 'G-6-002' - May 10, 1995 Entered onto the British Aircraft Register as G-BSTA (CofR G-BSTA/R3) - May 24, 1995 Registered to Trident Aviation Leasing Services (Jersey) Ltd, St Helier, Jersey It was rolled out at Woodford in the Australian Air Express livery as 'G-BSTA' - July 18, 1995 Leased to National Jet Systems on behalf of Australian air Express - August 28, 1995 Departed Woodford on the ferry flight to Australia - August 29, 1995 Cancelled from the British Aircraft Register - September 04, 1995 Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-NJV - September 05, 1995 Leased to National Jet Systems Pty Ltd as the registered operator Registered to Trident Aviation Leasing Services (Jersey) Ltd - May 22, 2006 Registered to Bae Systems Management Services (Two) Ltd - October 20, 2009 Leased to National Jet Systems Pty Ltd, Adelaide as the registered operator Registered to National Jet Express Pty Limited, Adelaide - October 22, 2009 The aircraft was repainted into the 'StarTrack / Qantas Freight' livery - June 2014 The aircraft was withdrawn from service at Adelaide (West Beach) - April 27, 2018 Test flown Adelaide (West Beach) - Adelaide (West Beach) as JTE5505 - May 25, 2018 The aircraft was withdrawn from service at Adelaide (West Beach) and stored The aircraft was progressively dismantled at Adelaide (West Beach) - 2019 The fuselage was transported to the Sims Metal Recycling plant at Port Adelaide - May 06, 2019 Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - June 05, 2019 |
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G-SSHH. British Aerospace - in the blue 'house' livery at an unknown location, March 24, 1982. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-262.) |
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G-SSHH. British Aerospace - in the blue 'house' livery at an unknown location, March 26, 1982. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-461.) |
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G-SSHH. TABA - in the BAe blue 'house' livery at Paris Le Bourget Airport, June 1983. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-193.) |
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G-SSHH. TABA - in the BAe blue 'house' livery at Paris Le Bourget Airport, June 1983. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-462.) |
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G-SSHH. TABA - in the BAe blue 'house' livery at Paris Le Bourget Airport, June 07, 1983. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-702.) |
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G-OPSA. British Aerospace - in the revised 'house' livery at Hatfield Airport, September 1984. (J. Woods Copyright Image 0414-664.) |
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N5828B. PSA - in the standard' livery at an unknown airport, March 1985. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-802.) |
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G-SSHH. British Aerospace - in the revised 'house' livery at Hatfield Airport, August 1985. (J. Woods Copyright Image 0414-674.) |
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N801RW. Royal West - in the standard livery at an unknown airport, July 1986. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-194.) |
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N801RW. Royal West - in the standard livery at Los Angeles Airport, July 1986. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-657.) |
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G-BPNP. Dan-Air London - in the basic Royal West livery at an unknown airport, September 1987. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-195.) |
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G-BPNP. Dan-Air London - in the basic Royal West livery at an unknown airport, September 1987. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-473.) |
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N720BA. American - in the basic Royal West livery at San Jose Airport, December 14, 1987. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-263.) |
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N720BA. American - in the basic Royal West livery at an unknown airport, February 1988. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-196.) |
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G-BSTA. British Aerospace - in the camouflage livery at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport, October 1988. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-197.) |
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ZS-NCA. Safair - in the standard livery at Lanseria Airport, September 1994. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-198.) |
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G-BSTA. Australian air Express - in the standard livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, September 1995. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 0414-291.) |
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VH-NJV. Australian air Express - in the standard livery at Brisbane Airport, February 1996. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-199.) |
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VH-NJV. Australian air Express - in the standard livery at Brisbane Airport, date unknown. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-673.) |
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VH-NJV. Cobham - in the 'all-white' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, June 09, 2014. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 0414-465.) |
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VH-NJV. Cobham - in the 'all-white' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, June 09, 2014. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 0414-466.) |
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VH-NJV. Cobham - in the 'all-white' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, June 09, 2014. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 0414-467.) |
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VH-NJV. Cobham - in the 'all-white' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, September 18, 2016. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 0414-468.) |
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VH-NJV. Cobham - in the 'all-white' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, December 02, 2016. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 0414-463.) |
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VH-NJV. Cobham - in the 'all-white' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, December 02, 2016. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 0414-464.) |
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VH-NJV. Cobham - in the 'all-white' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, July 28, 2017. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 0414-735.) |