Aircraft are changing owners, being sold and bought by private owners, clubs, schools, or financial organizations who rent them back. Some of the aircraft I knew for years changed hands, and simply vanished from my small world. This post is my personal attempt to know what they became. If you have any information about the, please leave a comment !
HB-HFV – A blue AS-202 Bravo. I flew it as a student pilot.
HB-PDZ – A Piper Archer II (PA28-181). I’m not sure, but some hints suggest that this one is now flying in the United Kingdom.
HB-PPR – A Piper Arrow (PA28R-201). I never flew it as pilot, but was on board as passenger on some IFR flights. Is it still IFR certified ? It was sent to Lugano (Locarno ?) for a while, but then I lost its track.
HB-PNJ – Another Piper Archer, version III (PA28-181), with the nice overhead panel, giving its cockpit a nice airliner look.
HB-PEJ – This is one of the Saratoga I flew the most (PA32R-301). An excellent IFR aircraft, who recently left Geneva.
HB-XJZ – Do you know where is now this Robinson R22 Helicopter ?
OE-DAB – Diamond made this plane available in Lausanne for a couple of weeks, while one of the DA40-TDI there was undergoing a long maintenance phase.
F-GZMP – I flew this DA40-TDI with G1000 in Cannes, but it also changed owner since then.
Another aircraft I flew also left the Swiss aircraft register. The AS202 Bravo HB-HFI crashed in the Alps, killing two on-board, under still unexplained circumstances, the investigation is not yet finished.
Are you also looking for aircraft you knew and who know fly somewhere else ? Feel free to post a comment about it, and join your voice to mine.
Vincent Lambercy is a Swiss private pilot now living in Germany. He holds a private pilot certificate with single-engine, multi-engine and instrument ratings and has logged more than 430 hours of flight.
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Hi again,
I know that HB-PEJ is currently up for sale at Varberg (ESGV), Sweden. Here is the ad:
http://www.autoaviation.com/visaalla.asp?id=184
Fred, I’m impressed ! Less than 30 minutes to find one ! The ad says Swedish registration. I guess someone bought it to resell it there…
Well, google is my friend
For the moment I don’t think that PEJ has been taken up on the SE-reg, but I will give you the info if – and when – the Saratoga so does.
And here’s another one:
http://www.abpic.co.uk/search.php?q=28-7990402&u=cn
HB-PEJ was cancelled 26.6.08 and is now reserved as SE-LVM by AutoAviation AB, Varberg, Sweden