Where are all the Jumbolinos?

387 copies of the dinky four-reflector from the UK in total were manufactured. Where to fly the last BAE 146 and Avro RJ today?

Already in 1973, developed by the British aircraft manufacturer Hawker Siddeley, known from the highly successful Turboprop airplane HS 748 and the three-beam Trident Jets, the HS 146. It was a shoulder-wing monoplane with a four-nozzle plants of the type Avco Lycoming ALF 502 R-5 with excellent engine, Short takeoff and landing characteristics. Unfortunately, the economic but and the oil crisis in the mid-1970s, first of all, a dash through the bill. The development has been postponed.

The project took first again, as several British aircraft manufacturers in 1978 to British Aerospace, short BAE, have been closed. Henceforth, the project of the BAE 146 and the first flight was took place on may 3. In September 1981, the production site in Hatfield in London with the BAE 146-100, with the registration G-SSSH instead. The SSSH in the indicator should point to the particularly quiet engines.

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