BN Islander 50 years young

[apgphoto]

Celebrating 50 years in June, lets see some Islanders!

Farnborough 2000 (non airshow)


Farnborough 2006


Farnborough 2008


The latter all at Farnborough 2010

[waghorn41]

The only photo of an Islander I've got, date must be 1972 or earlier. Taken at Sywell.

[Mike]

Oh good, another one of my favourite aircraft.

A few from the Caribbean...................





























On approach to St. Barts..................



The kamikaze dive into St. Barts..................



Taken from the harbour, this is the angle that every aircraft is at on finals.................

[Rugbyref]

I agree - the Caribbean is the place to catch Islanders. Like this one:
St Barths1_10 by philstevens158, on Flickr

St Barths1_9 by philstevens158, on Flickr

Let's see some more!

Phil

[keithnewsome]

I also agree the carribean is an island hoppers paradise ! A couple of Islanders from Mustique landing at Barbados ! more to come !

[TheMightyOz]

N188AM Farnborough 13/07/2012

[TheMightyOz]

Just going through my late father's photos and found this. G-AWVY on the old grass strip at Luton, 1979. Scanned from slide and cropped.

[keithnewsome]

A couple more from the Carribean, St Maarten, May 2011, Windward Express.

Keith

[keithnewsome]

And a couple more from me ......

G-BCEN.


G-JPEG.

[LondonEye]

A great British aircraft, over 1000 built. All these pics are from scans. Had to put a few Trislanders in too.

The first five pics were taken at Bembridge in April 1976

Islander G-BDHU Bembridge

Trislander G-BDOT Bembridge

Islander HP-712 Bembridge

Islander Indian Navy IN130 G-BDPT Bembridge

Islander Belgian Army B-05 G-BDPP Bembridge

Had to include this, one of the first few I saw, and a Zambian at Biggin Hill !

Islander 9J-ACL Biggin Hill

Haywards Aviation used to be seen at Gatwick and Shoreham.
Islander G-AXXJ Gatwick


Islander G-BHXI 1 Biggin Hill

Harvest Air used to do an Oil Pollution contract and based several at Southend.

Islander G-BJWL Southend

I was lucky enough to fly in this.

Islander G-BCEN Hurn

Some Trislanders

Trislander Aurigny Guernsey

Trislander G-BCJX Farnborough

Many Islanders modified for surveillance work.

Islander G-RAPA Middle Wallop

The Dowty Fan engine Islander.

Islander G-FANS 1 Farnborough

Pete

[keithnewsome]

And another, it arrived at Norwich yesterday, French registration but familiar colour scheme ??
F-HPIX.

[acw367]

And another, it arrived at Norwich yesterday, French registration but familiar colour scheme ??
F-HPIX.

F-HPIX is one of the fleet that spend the season acting as TV relay aircraft for cycling races including the Tour de France. This is for the Ride London cycling event.

[acw367]

Some more

G-JSAT Britten-Norman BN2T Islander Chewton Glen Aviation/Fly B-N Ltd RIAT Fairford 10 July 2016. In golden anniversary scheme.

G-JSAT RIAT Fairford 10 July 2016 by ACW367, on Flickr

G-BCWR Britten-Norman BN2A-20 Islander. JARTS fuselage which was roaded in and out of RIAT Fairford on Thursday 12 July 2007 for use in the emergency exercise scenario.

G-BCWR RIAT Fairford 12 July 2007 by ACW367, on Flickr

C6-ASA Britten Norman BN2A Islander Flamingo Air Charter Grand Bahama International Freeport 12 December 2002

C6-ASA Grand Bahama International Freeport 12 December 2002 by ACW367, on Flickr

[GCIJem]

BN Islanders at Guernsey Airport - except where stated.

G-BESO Jersey European Airways

G-BADK at Bournemouth

G-UERN Air Sarnia

G-MAFF FR Aviation TVS Airshow, Bournemouth

G-CIAS Channel Islands Air Search

G-OSEA South East Air - Shoreham

G-AXWR Aurigny Air Services - wfu/stored

G-AZXR at Shoreham

G-AXYM

G-BCEN

G-DEMO

RP-C664

G-BFNU

G-PASU

G-AXDH

G-BJWL Harvest Air

G-WOTG

Monserrat Airways, ex Aurigny machine G-AXDH?

G-BCEN at Lydd

G-BVXX at Jersey Airport

G-BKJH

G-OSEA

G-HPAA

G-UERN
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G-BESW Alderney Air Ferries

[Mike]

Plenty of excellent shots by everyone so far, keep them coming please.

I've updated the dead Botophucket links in my earlier post with ones from my Flickr album if anyone's interested.

[Professor_M]

With the 60th Anniversary of the first Islander flight approaching this year and recent news of a German Customer's Letter of Intent for 15 new Islanders for eventual conversion to Hydrogen Fuel Cell Power (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20n08l1p38o), here's one of another Islander with a Hydrogen-powered future - Cranfield Aerospace Solutions' G-HYUK displaying at Shuttleworth's Best of British Evening airshow in June 2023...

Britten-Norman BN-2A Islander | G-HYUK | Cranfield Aerospace Solutions by Professor M, on Flickr

[waghorn41]

Islander EI-BBR at Sywell, not sure of the date but as it's a B&W it was taken pre 1973.
BN Islander by Ian Pursey, on Flickr