Mysterious Shadow R1 at EMA.

[BOLLO]

Gents,this arrived at Easy Midlands Airport Friday night just around 17.45.At first i thought it was a new machine for the RAF on delivery with it carrying a Canadian serial.But it seems the serial is not what it seems and belongs to another aircraft in storage in Turkey .If you look at the RAF R1's and this one you will see one or two differences in antennas prop hubs being a different color.Here are a few shots,what do you boys think.







Will be interesting to see where its going when it departs.

[MacksAviation]

Great catch that mate just been reading the other thread it will indeed be interesting to see where it ends up

[BOLLO]

Ya not wrong there bud,someone will spill the beans you watch.I even wonder if the AF that will get it even call it a Shadow R1 .

[dinger]

Nice catch fella. There are a few differences from the RAF version. The canoe fairing underneath is different and the aerial fit on the spine is also different. Also, the Shadow doesnt have the big aerial on top of the fin.

I wonder who it belongs to

Dinger.

[JAWS]

Nice catch there , very interesting. I typed in the registration on Flightaware and found out the following flight history ;

Date Aircraft Origin Destination Departure Arrival Duration
16-Sep-2010 BE30/Y Iqaluit (CYFB) Sondre Stromfjord (BGSF / SFJ) 01:26PM EDT result unknown (?) n/a
16-Sep-2010 BE30/Y CFB Goose Bay (Goose Bay) (CYYR) Iqaluit (CYFB) 01:42PM UTC 12:10PM EDT 2:28
15-Sep-2010 BE30/R Bangor Intl (Bangor) CFB Goose Bay (Goose Bay) (CYYR) 04:39PM EDT 10:53PM UTC 2:14
15-Sep-2010 BE30/Q Hagerstown Rgnl (KHGR) Bangor Intl (Bangor) 01:23PM EDT 03:21PM EDT 1:58

No info on the ownership though. Hagerstown Airport ( KHGR ) is home to Northrop Grumman / California Microwaves.

[BOLLO]

Went up this morning and got some better shots before i got sussed out Would love to know who owns it and what they will call it .

[TheMightyOz]

Seems to be registered to Top Aces Inc. http://www.topaces.ca/

[BOLLO]

Departed this lunch time on its way to Brindisi according to a chap on the Civie forum.

[BOLLO]

Here is a better shot of it from this morning parked up and one of it departing "NASA" style.Looking at it,it seems a wee bit shorter than our Shadow R1's so this may not be a 350ER.





As the chap said on CA it departed to Brindisi where ever that is.

[TonyO]

Brindisi is in Italy, probably a fuel stop heading east. Maybe Top Aces have gone into the ISTAR business? A fifth Shadow has been ordered by the RAF, not sure when its due though, it would probably go to Hawarden first.

[andy@cottesmore]

This will become ZZ504

[JAWS]

[quote="BOLLO"]Here is a better shot of it from this morning parked up and one of it departing "NASA" style.Looking at it,it seems a wee bit shorter than our Shadow R1's so this may not be a 350ER.

Bollo according to the Canadian Civil register it is a model 300.

[BOLLO]

Cheers chap,thought it looked a wee bit shorter that the RAF 350ER's Shadows.I would still love to know who will eventually own it and what they will call it.

[Davef68]

It's probably one of the B300s that were ordered for use in Afghanistan by/for Canada

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The plan was to use contract pilots, so perhaps Top Aces has the gig (ike DO systems here)

[BOLLO]

Cheers for that Dave chap,didn't see your reply till today.Very interesting reading that.