1970 Hawker Siddeley HS 748-273 Series 2A, c/n 1694, C-FYDU, Air North, Yukon’s Airline

1970 Hawker Siddeley HS 748-273 Series 2A, c/n 1694, C-FYDU, Air North, Yukon’s Airline and 2005 Airbus A319-115(CJ), c/n 2592, 9H-MCE, Comlux Malta at South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada on Friday, August 3, 2012 at 11:32 PDT

1970 Hawker Siddeley HS 748-273 Series 2A, c/n 1694, C-FYDU, Air North, Yukon’s Airline (Air North Charter and Training Ltd.), Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, based at Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport (YXY/CYXY), Whitehorse, Yukon

• powered by two 2,190-shp Rolls-Royce Dart 7 Mk. 534-2 turboprop engines with variable-pitch four-blade Dowty Rotol propellers
• crew of three (pilot, co-pilot, passenger attendant), seating configuration Y40, medium-range mid-size regional airliner
• built by Hawker Siddeley Aviation Limited, London, England at Manchester Woodford Aerodrome (XXB/EGCD), Woodford, Greater Manchester, England
• first flight on November 4, 1970
• AMDB-110, Royal Brunei Air Force, Royal Brunei Malay Regiment on January 20, 1971
• VIP military transport
• converted to civil configuration by Singapore General Aviation Services Pte Ltd., Singapore
• VR-UEH, Royal Brunei Airlines (Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn Bhd), Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei on August 26, 1981
• stored on August 11, 1982
• re-registered as VS-UEH and returned to service sometime in 1983
• re-registered as V8-UEH and returned to service on January 1, 1984
• ZK-MCP, Tutoko, Mount Cook Airline (Mount Cook Group), Christchurch, New Zealand on April 30, 1984
• leased to Air Pacific (Air Pacific Limited), Nadi International Airport (NAN/NFFN), Nadi, Viti Levu, Fiji on December 4, 1985
• returned to Mount Cook Airline on January 29, 1986
• Mount Cook Airline owned by Air New Zealand Limited after 1989
• registration cancelled on February 12, 1996
• stored at Christchurch, New Zealand, later at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in June 1996
• imported in 1996
• registered to Air North, Yukon’s Airline on August 29, 1996
• active

2005 Airbus A319-115(CJ), c/n 2592, 9H-MCE, Comlux Malta (Comlux Malta Ltd./Comlux—The Aviation Group), Malta

• powered by two 27,000-lbs thrust CFM International CFM56-5B7/3 high-bypass turbofan engines
• crew of two (pilot and co-pilot), VIP configuration, long-range narrow-body corporate jet
• removable extra fuel tanks in cargo compartment, corporate cabin interior, and wingtip fences
• built by Airbus Industrie, Toulouse-Blagnac, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France at Flugplatz Hamburg-Finkenwerder (XFW/EDHI), Finkenwerder, Hamburg-Mitte, Hamburg, Deutschland for final assembly
• first flight on November 10, 2005, test registration D-AVXK
• re-registered as D-AIMM on November 22, 2005
• ferried for cabin outfitting from Flugplatz Hamburg-Finkenwerder (XFW/EDHI) to Dallas Love Field (DAL/KDAL), Dallas, Texas, USA on December 1, 2005
• HB-IPO, Comlux Aviation (Comlux—The Aviation Group), Zürich, Schweiz on June 21, 2006
• leased as UN-A1901 to Government of Kazakhstan, Astana, Kazakhstan on January 15, 2007
• operated by Berkut Air (State Air Company Berkut), Astana, Kazakhstan
• returned as HB-IPO to Comlux Aviation on June 10, 2008
• leased from Air Luther AG, Hergiswil, Nidwalden, Schweiz on June 18, 2008
• transferred as 9H-AFK to Comlux Malta on September 12, 2008
• leased from Air Luther AG
• re-registered as 9H-MCE in July 2012
• active

[Nikon Coolpix L20 point-and-shoot 10 MP digital camera, Nikkor 38–136-mm f/3.1–6.7 lens]

© Copyright photograph by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, August 2012