Old jet - anyone know what this is?

[Mitchell Andrus]

My son and I flew to Landcaster Airport last week and spotted this old jet in a hanger, I suppose under restoration. There was nobody around to ask.... Anyone know what this is?

[Joe Unni]

Cool photos!

My first thought was the British Tornado or Buccaneer - here's a link to images of a Buccaneer - http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.spyflight.co.uk/images/jpgs/buccaneer/buccs%2520in%2520echelon.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.spyflight.co.uk/buccaneer.htm&h=413&w=400&sz=40&tbnid=eoIbYWJ-1J4J::&tbnh=125&tbnw=121&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbuccaneer%2Bimages&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=1&ct=image&cd=1

I hope it works. If not, Google Buccaneer Images and choose one of the images at the top of the list.

Good luck,
-joe

[Wes Bischel]

Mitchell,
Do you remember which hangar it was in? It looks a lot like a English Electric Canberra - or the General Dynamics/Martin B57 version. But it looks like the rivets aren't flush on the fuselage?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Martin_B-57_Canberra

Looking at it again, the engines are too far from the fuselage on the Canberra.
Now you've got me really curious!

Wes

[Andrew Derhammer]

It's from the czech airforce http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_air_forces

[Mitchell Andrus]

Insignia is right.

[Clay Crocker]

It may be an SU-25 like this:

http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/su-25_frogfoot.pl

[Clay Crocker]

Yeah, after looking at some more pictures of SU-25's that is definitely what it is. Trailing link landing gear, split rudder on the vertical tail, and the "U" shaped antenna on the lower surface of the empanage all match with other pictures I have been looking at. Pretty neat.

Here is another picture:

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/ru_aircraft_su25_12.jpg

[Mitchell Andrus]

Yeah, after looking at some more pictures of SU-25's that is definitely what it is. Trailing link landing gear, split rudder on the vertical tail, and the "U" shaped antenna on the lower surface of the empanage all match with other pictures I have been looking at. Pretty neat.

Here is another picture:

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/ru_aircraft_su25_12.jpg


Winner... We've got a winner here. Thanks, Clay.

Next time I go to this Airport I'll have to get the story on it.
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[Wes Bischel]

Good eye Clay! It is a neat little plane - interesting lines. I'll be interested to know how a Czech close air support combat jet ended up in Lancaster!

Wes

[Mitchell Andrus]

I'll be interested to know how a Czech close air support combat jet ended up in Lancaster!

Wes

Wes, you live there... you must know the airport. Perhaps a call to the ops office is in order?