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Post by Jeff on Mar 24, 2018 20:30:10 GMT
Traipsing back from Wembley IKEA this lunchtime I came across a back 1/4 fuselage and tail of a fully painted EZY 737 next to an Easyjet building! Never noticed it before but I was stuck in traffic .... anyone any ideas of identity please ?
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Post by Jeff on Apr 1, 2018 14:23:16 GMT
Traipsing back from Wembley IKEA this lunchtime I came across a back 1/4 fuselage and tail of a fully painted EZY 737 next to an Easyjet building! Never noticed it before but I was stuck in traffic .... anyone any ideas of identity please ? Just received this from a friend not on the forum Your rear end is painted as G-BECG but is actually HL8232 from Kemble |
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Post by graham on Apr 2, 2018 16:35:41 GMT
That makes sense Jeff as HL8232 arrived at Kemble last year, I saw it on the 20th November, and I recall a post or two on here about part of the fuselage being transported out.
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Post by gtf4j2m on May 30, 2018 10:13:52 GMT
It has been suggested in Air Britain News that the donor for the rear fuselage was G-CELI as this has been noted without a rear fuselage & HL8232 has been photographed still with a rear fuselage in mid March. Having just looked at photo's oF G-CELI srs 330 & HL8232 srs 8K5 there are some differences. Does anyone have a photo of the fuselage marked G-BECG at Alperton EasyBus depot.
Graham
GTF4J2M
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Post by christoff on May 30, 2018 10:24:38 GMT
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Post by gtf4j2m on May 30, 2018 16:28:31 GMT
Thanks very much Lee, well done. From these 2 shots I can tell that the fuselage is probably a srs 300 (as there where no srs 400, 500 etc present). The APU aperture on the srs 300 is a single hole and the surrounding metal finishes much lower than the srs 700, 800 etc.
My photo of HL8232 srs 8K5 shows 2 apertures and the metal surround finishes just below the light on the rear of the fuselage. So srs 300 probably G-CELI. Any other ideas ??
Graham
GTF4J2M
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Post by airsicksteve on May 30, 2018 16:45:30 GMT
![]() Just to unintentionally muddy the waters, my own sightings plus credit to a recent CivilianAviation visit report, puts the donor fuselage as G-CELZ. The fuselage recently appeared on the Belfast Apron minus the corresponding rear fuselage section. There is a perfect photo on Flickr, accessible via the Civilian Aviation photo page - it shows the severed donor fuselage in the foreground, with G-CELI still intact in the background. G-CELA and G-CELW are the other two ex Jet2s in the Belfast huddle and they remain all surfaces intact. My money’s on G-CELZ |
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Post by gtf4j2m on May 30, 2018 17:35:56 GMT
Tracking back through photo's of G-CELI & CELZ the latter looks like the best candidate. CELI being intact intact in mid April.
Thanks very much for helping sort this one out.
Graham
GTF4J2M
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Post by norwichmd11 on May 30, 2018 19:23:18 GMT
I first saw this outside the building on 11th May but could not stop.Just for the record the real G-BECG was Britannia Airways first seen 1/6/1978 at Stansted,
now scrapped Burenos Aires Aeroparque ?
Kevin
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Post by gtf4j2m on May 30, 2018 21:16:17 GMT
Yes. Real G-BECG scrapped in Argentina. It was operated by Britannia AW, GB Airways & easyJet in this country
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