Lockheed Lodestar of Dutch Airforce?

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Lockheed Lodestar of Dutch Airforce?

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I just saw this aircraft over here. It had the Sign G29 and that circle woth red blue and white of the Dutch Airforce (I think). Man, that sound was indescribable, soooo beautiful. 8O

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Blacky do you have a picture of the plane, or a picture of this type from another operator of this plane?

As far as I know they don't have lodestars flying out there.

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It looked like this AN124: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/511148/L/

the CS was metal like this one (without those blue lines of course), and instead of ZS-ASN, I saw something like: G *the dutch airforce sign* 29. It was flying to the south.

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Maybe it was a plane from some memorial flight.

As far as I know the Dutch Air Force hasn't such a plane in their fleet.
There's a group of aviation enthousiast at Gilze Rijen that keep some historical planes in flying condition. Could be it was one of those.

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Post by B737229 »

http://img16.exs.cx/img16/1049/BEECH.jpg

you mean this one? That is a beech D18 :!:

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Post by blackhawk »

That's the one B737229!!! Thanks a lot. So a Beech D18, mm they all look the same from far away, especially from behind ;)

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Post by Laurent »

Here are some facts about this one :

c/n CA-254
2375 Canadian Forces
CF-AID
N7820
C-FAID
N5369X
(PH-BBA) ntu
(PH-BBJ) ntu
(PH-DDB) ntu ("Good Vibrations")
(PH-KHV) ntu
N5369X Stichting KLu Historische Vlucht, Gilze Rijen (as "G29")

Several attempts to put it on the Dutch civil register have failed.
The "G29" is a real 'fake' because in reality they had only 28 Beeches
(G-01 to G-28)

Source : Koninklijke Luchtmacht, Vliegtuig- en registratieoverzicht 1945-2005

Best regards,

Laurent

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