Jet Art Aviation

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Happy Christmas Jet Fans! Wishing you all a Merry Christmas from all the Jet Art team. 🎄🎅

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Congratulations Lando Norris. F1 World Champion!! 🏆💪🏻👏

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Christmas is coming and this book is the must have gift for any fast jet fan!

Just landed in the Jet Art office, a signed copy of Ian Blacks newly released – ‘’Lightning Vol IV’’.

Vol IV is a tribute to the Lightning P1B, the first British Aircraft to fly at MACH 2. Better still 100% of the profits from Volume IV sales are going to help restore P1B XA847 the very aircraft that BAC chief test pilot Roland Beamont took to MACH 2 back in 1958.

Available now from Firestreak books – Link to order below.

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@paul_tremelling Thanks Paul! Good to hear you have history with this aircraft. Some great info there that I will add to the history file. Especially liking the Trafalgar 200 diamond nine! Cheers

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Check out the end results of our latest restoration project!

Clients brief: “Create a unique Sea Harrier FRS1 tribute aircraft finished in gloss black with contrasting 899 NAS markings”

ZH804 served on 899 NAS in 2003 so seemed a fitting candidate to wear this special tribute paint scheme. The nose modification is a throwback to the early days of Royal Navy Sea Harrier operations.

Hope you like it! Let us know what you think

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@TomHam70488209 It is likely to end up on public display so there will be future opportunities to see it, however the aircraft is now in the USA so it will be a bit of a trek.

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For the nose mod we used all original FRS1 components so the nose structure and profile is absolutely spot on. With everything being gloss black though it all blends in and really accentuates the sleekness of the FRS1 nose profile. Worth noting the original FRS1 components were exceedingly difficult to source…!

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At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.

Lest we forget.

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Hello old friend.

Maintenance day on Transatlantic Air Race Harrier XV741 @BrooklandsMuseu

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@rookisaacman @StinkJet @imPenny2x @America250 Those shock diamonds 12 sec in! 👌🔥Great video @StinkJet 😎

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Stablemates.

Our Sea Harrier had some suitable company this week in the hangar at Church Fenton.

Thanks to David Butler Crashgate7 for the photos.

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5 October 1940. Hawker Hurricane Mk.I's of 85 Squadron RAF based at Church Fenton in Yorkshire, led by Squadron Leader Peter Wooldridge Townsend.

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Today at Jet Art we’re celebrating 20 years in business. Two decades ago today on 20th August 2005 we took the plunge with our very first outing as a newly formed business with a stall at Elvington for the Yorkshire Airshow.

What started with selling aircraft furniture and collectibles at Airshows quickly evolved into an online business and within 2 years we purchased our very first aircraft - a Harrier. Fast forward 20 years and with over 130 aircraft through our doors it’s been one massive rollercoaster: sometimes challenging, often emotional, but above all a real aviation adventure and a lot of fun!

Thanks to all our customers and aviation friends who supported the craziness over the last 20 years.

Cheers!

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In 2019 we dismantled, shipped and then installed the aircraft at its new home, The National Aviation Museum of Estonia where it has resided for the last 6 years, sat on display alongside other suitably rare Cold War era jets such as a Mig 25 Foxbat and SU24 Fencer.

Considering what we started with back in 2011 this was a superb end result for a long term restoration project.

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Tornado F3 🧵
14 years ago today we were collecting this! Our first Tornado ADV. ZE256 a former 56 Sqn “Firebirds” jet that ended its RAF days as the groundcrew weapons load trainer for 111 Sqn at RAF Leuchars in Scotland.

The aircraft ended up being the very last RAF Tornado F3 to leave the 111 Sqn HAS site in July 2011. The gates were literally locked behind us with it very much feeling like the end of an era. 1/3

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Before and after.
ZE256 ended up being one of the very few Tornado ADV aircraft to survive the RTP (Reduce To Produce) cull. Over the next few years we sourced all the missing external components, itself a colossal task and restored the aircraft to its former glory.

We finished in the Markings of ZE343 DZ of XI(F) Sqn.

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RIP Alan Pollock, RAF Hawker Hunter pilot who in 1968 famously flew through Tower Bridge in protest at defence cuts. This ended up being his last flight as an RAF pilot and ended his Air Force career. It is now the stuff of Legend.
Rest in peace Sir, we salute you. 

The first time I heard the Alan Pollock Hunter story was from a friend who was working as a RAF flight line mechanic at West Raynham on the day this happened 57 years ago. As the pilots landed they were arrested by RAF police who were initially unsure who the culprit was. 

The last pilot to land was Alan Pollock who arrived in style with an inverted low pass over the hangars. He also happened to have an AA street map of London in the cockpit. Well and truly busted out the RAF 'the Tower Bridge Incident' has gone down as a legendary piece of RAF history.

Interesting fact not often mentioned about the incident, the 1 Squadron ground crew at Tangmere who dispatched the aircraft packed toilet roles behind the airbrake at Flt Lt Pollock’s request so he could drop them over Parliament! He buzzed the Houses of Parliament creating a mini-sonic boom just as MPs were debating the problem of aircraft Jet noise!

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Remembering the 160,000 Allied troops who landed in Normandy this day 81 years ago #DDay81 #DDay #OperationOverLord #lestweforget

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Johns log book entries for Operation Corporate show that he flew XZ233 48 times with his last flight in June 1982. Entries in red denote noteworthy combat sorties:

21st may 1982 ''Exocet decoy + target''...Twice!

23rd May 1982 with a small note of 'Skua US', a surface target had been acquired, Target Locked. Sea Skua Missile then failed to properly lock / fire.

John last saw XZ233 in June 1982. 43 years later to the day he was back in the hot seat!

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#OnThisDay 43 years ago Lt John Hopkins was flying @RoyalNavy Lynx XZ233 above Falkland Sound when he had a very close shave with an Argentine Aermacchi 339.

21st May 1982, the day of the landings in what was the first real air action of the day, Lynx XZ233 with LT Hopkins at the controls and PO Bennett as his door gunner was hovering at 400ft above Falkland sound as an Exocet decoy (read as; sitting duck suicide mission) when the Lynx was almost blasted out of the sky by Lieutenant Owen Crippa (Argentine Navy) who had taken off from Port Stanley flying his Aermacchi 339. He positioned the Lynx in his sights and was running in to attack but saw HMS Argonaut at the last second and decided to attack the ship instead with 30mm and 2inch rockets, prioritising in his words, a more valuable target.

Today, 43 years after the conflict John Hopkins was reunited with XZ233.

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