Extra EA.330LX, RJF 01 / LC069, Royal Jordanian Air Force
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Registration: RJF 01
Construction Number: LC069
Code Number: JY-RFA
Model Extra EA.330LX
Operator: Royal Jordanian Air Force
Airport: RAF Fairford (FFD / EGVA), UK - England
Airshow: Fairford - RIAT - 2019
Display Team: Royal Jordanian Falcons
Photographer: Kevin Colbran
Date Taken: 21/06/2019
Date Submitted: 07/08/2019
To the screener..... Thanks for your last comments on this and the other Falcons aircraft. I have just looked at "rjfalcons.com" under History and have cut and pasted the following from that site: The Royal Jordanian Falcons operated the Pitts Special until 1992 when the whole fleet was replaced by 5 Extra-300 aircraft. The Royal Jordanian Falcons continued performing the task of promoting Jordan throughout the world continents until 2007 when the team purchased 5 new Extra-300L replacing the old Extra-300 midwing. Recently and at the behest of His Majesty King Abdullah II, 5 new Extra-330 LX aircraft were purchased replacing the Royal Jordanian Falcons Fleet. .... so it seems to me that the current fleet are indeed new aircraft and not the old EA-300's. That means that those images on the database showing the reg's RJF01 through RJF04 and labelled as JY-RJA, B, C, and D are probably wrong! I wondered how anyone could know that RJF01 could definitely be JY-RFA and "02" being RFB etc! without seeing a constructors plate somewhere on the aircraft. Sorry to be a bore about this, but as Air Britain as a whole, are historians, we should be publishing accurate data. Of course I dont know any of this for sure, only that the Falcons own website states that the current fleet are EA-330LX's and that is how they were announced over the speakers at this years RIAT. Cheers, Kev
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