especially as most of the funny ones are a bugger to pronounce using the aviation alphabet.
Quite often, I hear D-BOSS on the radio. Everybody calls it Delta-boss, never by aviation alphabet
Olympic used to have one ATR-42 registered SX-BIA.
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=SX-BIA
Pilots and ATCOs called it “SEX KE VIA” (“KE” means “and” and “BIA” in capitals is written the same in the Greek language), meaning “sex and violence”.
Peter, It was imported by the London Flight Centre along with G-BOLY, I used to park my PA28 along side it at EGSS before the
‘low cost airline brigade’ forced all the avgas lot out !
At Headcorn:
Sorry…don’t have a photo of it, but I remember seeing one years ago in a hanger at my home airfield.
EI-EIO.
Owned by O. MacDonald & Co. of course! :-)
Guess this was flying from a farm strip??
This one carries eels
Filming a crash
The RAFs last Hastings had the callsign MCRIT
D-ICKS
Is the G-BBIE one real? I had a look on G-INFO and it belongs to a long deregistered Cherokee 140 (which crashed with 4 fatalities back in the 1970s). AFAIK, G-registrations can never be re-used.
An Ikarus C42 at Enstone is G-GRPA. The owner did not mean it, but it’s a Glass Reinforced Plastic Aircraft indeed.
No, it’s not. At least structurally.
Seen D-BOOK (Falcon 2000), D-KACK (Scheibe Falke), D-ESEL (C172), G-ODLY (C310), D-ENTE (Do-27, quite famous), D-HILF (Bo 105), D-HELP (R44), D-FUEL (PC12), D-KITY (ASK16).
Flown: D-GOLF (PA-23), D-EOOE (DR250-160)
on this
at Sitia, LGST, Crete.