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Saxon Air Norwich - "Ultimate
FBO"
Dave Rose
26/9/11
A business meeting in Norwich and an
overnight at an airport hotel meant I could catch up with things at Norwich.
Since my last visit 2 years ago an enormous FBO has been developed by Saxon Air,
and a friends son is the Operations Manager!! To make things even more
interesting my mate hitched a ride down from MME on G-KLNR as it was positioning
after its round trip to Palma!! He left MME at 1902 and landed at NWI at 1932,
that's travelling in style.
Once inside I was given the grand tour,
Saxon is owned by Roger Klyne (hence the regs) who is a successful local
businessman. He bought the company in 2009 and has a vision for the future. The
massive complex is divided into 3 main sections, Saxon Air have their operations
on the right side, with hangar space for the fleet. Offices, Pilot rest suites
and planning is located in the middle section and the hangar on the left is
available for lease, at the moment there are some helicopters inside but the
vision is for an offshore terminal concept. The waiting area complete with check
in desks and immersion suit changing is complete and ready for use, currently
Bond and Bristow are located on the airfield, so who knows.
I was given access to all of the fleet
(photos below), and this currently consists of -
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KLNB |
Beech 350 |
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FL-631 |
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KLNR |
BJ400A |
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RK-552 |
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MICE |
Cessna 510 |
Mustang |
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510-0156 |
Ops on SXN AOC |
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G |
KLNW |
Cessna 510 |
Mustang |
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510-0157 |
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G |
KLNP |
EC-120B Colibri |
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1492 |
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Future plans are for a longer range jet in
the next 6 months.
Saxon handle all GA / Biz movements at
Norwich, the large apron has handled up to BBJ size aircraft and they are kept
busy, during my visit they had handled a German Citation, a Belgian Be200 and a
DanCopter EC155 helicopter working the rigs.
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The FBO complex |
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Plenty of space |
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G-KLNB |
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G-KLNP |
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G-KLNB |
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G-KLNB 8 SEATER |
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G-KLNR |
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G-KLNR 6 SEATER |
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G-KLNW |
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G-KLNW 4 SEATER |
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Other Norwich visitors were -
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G |
HLEL |
American Blimp A-60+ |
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Good Year |
010 |
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N |
186XP |
BAe 125 |
900XP |
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HA-0186 |
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EI |
WXB |
BAe 146 |
RJ85 |
Stored-Northwest Old scheme |
E2311 |
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EI |
RJK |
BAe 146 |
RJ85 |
Cityjet (Stored) |
E2348 |
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PH |
BPB |
Boeing 737 |
4Y0 |
KLM Clrs (stored) |
24344 |
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PH |
BPC |
Boeing 737 |
4Y0 |
KLM Clrs (stored) |
24468 |
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PH |
BTF |
Boeing 737 |
406 |
KLM Clrs (stored) |
27232 |
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D |
CELI |
Cessna 550 |
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550-0998 |
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F |
GNLH |
Fokker 100 |
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Blue Line Clrs (Stored) |
11311 |
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F |
GPXF |
Fokker 100 |
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All White (stored) |
11330 |
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GNLG |
Fokker 100 |
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Blue Line Clrs (Stored) |
11363 |
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F |
GIOG |
Fokker 100 |
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Eagle Airways Clrs (Stored) |
11364 |
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EC |
JCU |
SA227 |
Metro III |
Aero Nova |
AC-679 |
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OY |
NPD |
SA227 |
Metro 23 |
Aalborg Airtaxi |
DC-865B |
The Good year Blimp was working for Sky at
the Norwich City v Sunderland game
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