Original Model by JR Lucariny
Textures by Mark Wiles
Air Anglia was a small airline based in Norwich, UK, flying DC3, Piper Navajo Chieftain, Fokker F27 and F28 aircraft during the 1970's up till it merged with British Island Airways and Air Westward to form Air UK (now KLM UK) in the 1980's. Norwich is located in the East Anglia region of the Uk, and is a largely rural area, yet it managed to develop a number of innovative routes from Norwich and the smaller airport in Cambridge. Even today Norfolk and Norwich is without a motorway link, and back in the 1970's the roads were poor and train services from Norwich infrequent. Despite that, Norwich is home to major international finance houses, is a centre for food research, is close to offshore oil and gas industries and contains television production facilities, so air services were a way of providing fast links to other areas.
One way it managed to keep going was to use small aircraft to develop a route. If the route became popular, it would progress to larger craft. The Piper Navajo Chieftain was ideal for this purpose, and became associated with a Norwich-Birmingham-Swansea-Newquay(RAF St Mawgan) service between 1976 and 1979. The Navajo Chieftains also were used on connecting shuttles from Norwich to Cambridge, which despite being only 70 or so miles apart had apalling road and rail links at the time.
This model is based on one of the Navajo Chieftains used by Air Anglia, G-BDMD. It uses JR Lucariny's Embraer-Piper Navajo as a base. The Chieftain is a 2ft longer version of the Navajo, but you would be hard pressed to notice the difference, so I'm happy to use the model in this form!!!
Please note this model has been aliased to Cessna sounds and the Caravan panel, as for some reason the original panel which came with the base model didn't work and I'm not sure if it is a problem with my machine or with the files, although the downloaded files look fine. As I would prefer to upload a model which I know works fully on my machine, I aliased to the default panels. There are two other Piper P31 panels available on SurClaro, and alternative sounds as well, so if the Cessna Caravan panel gets on your nerves have a browse of the site.
Installation.
Unzip the files to a temporary folder. Then simply drag and drop into your aircraft folder in your FS2002 set up.
And that's it really. Thanks to JR Lucariny for the fabulous model (apologies for having to alias the panel but I couldn't trace the fault) and being generous enough to allow repaints.
