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1980 Flugfélag Austurlands Islander accident - On 22 September 1980 a Britten Norman BN2-a Islander flew into fog and crashed into Smjörfjöll mountain region in east Iceland killing three on board. [120] 1996 Loganair Islander accident; 1998 Pointe-Lebel Air Satellite crash; 2005 Loganair Islander accident
Number built Type Britten-Norman BN-1: 1951 1 Single engine ultralight aeroplane Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander: 1965 1,280 Twin engine airliner Britten-Norman BN-2 Defender: 1970 Twin engine military utility aeroplane Britten-Norman BN-2 Trislander: 1970 72 Trimotor airliner Britten-Norman BN-3 Nymph: 1969 2 Single engine utility aeroplane
Diagram of Loganair Britten-Norman Islander air ambulance cabin. The aircraft was a British built BN2B-26 Islander manufactured by Pilatus Britten-Norman in 1989, registration G-BOMG. It was a high wing design with two wing-mounted Lycoming O-540 -E4C5 piston engines, each delivering a rated 260 horsepower to a two-blade variable-pitch propeller .
November 28, 1989: BN-2 Islander, N127JL, flying to Westerly crashed into the sea 3 to 5 miles northwest of Block Island. All 8 people on board, 7 passengers and pilot John Beck Jr., were killed. Among the victims, Shirley Wood, was the publisher and co-editor of The Block Island Times, founding editor of People magazine, and former chief of ...
2013 Transaereo 5074 Britten-Norman Islander crash; V. Vieques Air Link Flight 901A This page was last edited on 15 April 2016, at 08:50 (UTC). Text ...
The Britten-Norman Defender is a multi-role utility transport aircraft, manufactured by Britten-Norman of the United Kingdom. It is the military version of the Britten-Norman Islander, developed for roles such as utility transport, casualty evacuation, counter-insurgency and light attack, forward air control, patrol and reconnaissance. The term ...
It could be written that Britten Norman claim that it is the best selling aircraft in Western Europe (which is a fact) but whether it is or not can be decided by the reader. I was under the impression that they were only producing a small number of new aircraft and were refurbishing old airframes.Nimbus 18:02, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
On 20 January 2014, a Britten-Norman Islander light aircraft belonging to the Superior School of Aviation in Romania (Romanian: Școala Superioară de Aviație Civilă) [1] operating Flight 111 crashed in the Apuseni Mountains at an altitude of approximately 1,400 metres (4,600 ft), near the village of Petreasa, between Alba and Cluj counties.