OY-FGA History

OY-FGA is CM170-1 s/n. 230, delivered by Potez-Air in France on 10th September 1959. The aircraft served in the French Air Force from 1959 until 1996, when it was "civilized" and bought by Maurice Etcheto, France, who had solo'ed in s/n 230 in his early Air Force career. The aircraft was registred F-GLMO with home base at Le Havre. Luc Casteleyn, Belgium, later became a part owner, and the aircraft got its base at Charleroi, Belgium.

After inspection by Joergen Madsen, Aviation Consult, Denmark, the aircraft was 14th October 2000 sold to Niels Egelund, Denmark, and on 23th October 2000 ferried to its new home, Copenhagen Roskilde Airport (EKRK), where it is placed in a heated and de-moisturized hangar. It was deleted from French aircraft register 19th January 2001 and got the intermediate Danish registration OY-FGA. It was flown for noise certification according to ICAO Annex 16, Vol. 1 on 29th June 2001 with Delta Acoustics as consultants and is on permanent Danish register from August 2001 with experimental category airworthiness certificate. It is the first private owned Danish civilian registered jet warbird. The certification procedures have been undertaken by Joergen Madsen, Aviation Consult Denmark who is also in charge of maintenance and documentation. In addition to the aircraft a comprehensive set of spare parts, special tools and equipment for maintenance plus maintanance manuals and spare parts catalogues have been aquired. 50 hrs, 100 hrs and yearly inspections are made with help from mechanics with extensive type experience from the Belgian Air Force.

In its late military life the aircraft was equipped with VHF/UHF Com, VOR, ILS, ADF, TACAN and IFF/SIF. After installation of the NATO TACAN system the rear part of the canopy was as part of a standard procedure painted white to protect the system from the sun. In OY-FGA the instrument panels for VHF/UHF Com, VOR, ILS, ADF, TACAN are retained in the rear cockpit. The front cockpit is equipped with VHF Com, VOR/ILS, GPS with moving map and transponder mode C. The gun sight is removed but all other military cockpit interface including armament control panels are retained. No change has been made in the cockpit layout except for the addition of colour markings on airspeed indicators, mach meter and engine instruments plus installation of a G-meter and a VOR/ILS repeater in the rear cockpit.