Getting back to the challenge of identifying this aircraft, the previous post left a number of things up in the air. One of those things was the aircraft type, there was a choice of several.
You may assume that the type would be the easiest part of it, well not really – this model was built by a number of manufacturers and they were listed in several differing ways by the FAA. I have had an email contact informing me that this is or was a ROCKWELL S-2R THRUSH COMMANDER, but even that leaves three or four searches for the list of aircraft of that type.
You may think that the type details are not so important, it is – as in this case I think that the identity of the aircraft in question will have to be identified through a process of elimination. Before we start that, we have to have a positive type ID which will then allow the generation of the list.
All sounds so simple doesn’t it, not so – the list will probably be into three figures and it will be easy to eliminate many of them using the FAA database. So now the sluthing starts, wish me luck.