Italian Air Force Airbus 319 at Casement

[Joe McDermott]

Following info kindly provided by Malcolm Nason :

"Aircraft was 5N-TAS in basic Burlington colours, with false World Air Freight titles"

I can add :

5N-TAS was ex Pan Am (built 1967 as a -321C, named Clipper Pride of America) & had at least 4 other owners before Omega bought it. I have no record of it being with Olympic, but it may well have had a Greek crew, perhaps even ex Olympic.

Cockpit later damaged in arson attack (Essex youths) after aircraft Withdrawn From Use, 2003 at Southend, broken up earlier this year.

[Snapper]

GTTC

This 707 was never operated by Olympic Airways.

I guess that its operator Thames Air or World Air Freight may have bought up a job lot of flight manuals from Olympic.

The following info is from B707 production list:-

Boeing 707-321C c/n 19375 l/n 662 ff 28.12.67  
N473PA  Pan American  delivered 09.01.68  
leased by Ronair/Iran Air 23.10.78    
N473RN  rr 12.12.78    
Trans Cargo lsd 18.02.80    
ATASCO Leasing  06.80    
HK-2473  Avianca lsd 06.80    
OBR1243 Faucett lsd 26.02.82    
N864BX  Radix Air Corp  08.85    
Burlington Air lsd 11.85    
Burlingon/Buffalo lsd 01.92    
5N-TAS  Thames Air  31.07.93    
9Q-CSW  World Air Freight 23.08.94    
EL-AKJ  Omega Air 24.11.94    
PP-BRR  Brasair lsd 26.11.94    
EL-AKJ  Omega Air 07.96  
Occidental AL lsd 09.96      
Skymaster AL lsd 06.98      
N2NF Omega Air Inc 03.03.00 - This was its final registration, but it was never worn and the aircraft has only recently been broken up at Southend.  '>

Snapper

[GoneToTheCanner]

Hi all,
I'm sure you're correct, that it's not an ex-Olympic aircraft but given that flight manuals are issued to individual aircraft (because even production aircraft are always slightly different from each other),there must have been a Greek hand in there somewhere.
regards
GttC

[Joe McDermott]

Another bit of info to add on the B707 filming, supplied by collegue not on this board, Barry Devlin of Horseslips fame was the director. And, like John Travolta, is a Lockheed Constellation fan !

[Irish251]

Pics of 5N-TAS at Baldonnel are now in the photo database on this site.

[Frank]

Pic here: http://www.irishairpics.com/database/photo/1022388/

and here: http://www.irishairpics.com/database/photo/1022387/

[Dublin Spotter]

And I taught this A319 flight was a proving flight for the new "Enda Jet"

[Fouga]

Quote (Dublin Spotter @ 24 May 2007,04:20)

And I taught this A319 flight was a proving flight for the new "Enda Jet"

FG eh? I hope!

[Snapper]

Can anyone confirm whether or not a CSA A321 visited Baldonnel late last night?

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[Joe McDermott]

Seems not Snapper. Word was it was due to make a three day stop.