Jan/Feb2018: ETPS Boscombe Down Alpha Jets retired...

[Stratofreighter]

...word on the street is the Alpha Jets of the Empire Test Pilots School/Qinetiq were taken out of service during the end of January 2018.

No "news links" yet, but the various sources on Facebook and other social media are credible.
http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/v ... 7&p=959467

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... iq-445009/

Following their delivery to the UK Ministry of Defence's Qinetiq-run Boscombe Down site in Wiltshire, the PC-21s will be prepared for use training test pilots and flight-test engineers.

They will replace a combined eight BAE Systems Hawk T1 and Dassault Alpha Jet trainers.

[andel]

...word on the street is the Alpha Jets of the Empire Test Pilots School/Qinetiq were taken out of service during the end of January 2018.

No "news links" yet, but the various sources on Facebook and other social media are credible.
http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/v ... 7&p=959467

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... iq-445009/

Following their delivery to the UK Ministry of Defence's Qinetiq-run Boscombe Down site in Wiltshire, the PC-21s will be prepared for use training test pilots and flight-test engineers.

They will replace a combined eight BAE Systems Hawk T1 and Dassault Alpha Jet trainers.

And those PC-21s look good in the good old "Raspberry Ripple" colorscheme !.

[patrick dirksen]

Maybe they do, maybe they don't, but that civil registration spoils it all anyway....