Dornier DO-328 Welcome Air

Design and paint by D.Turcato d.turcato@tiscalinet.it
Flight model by Stefano Caputo cptsteve@fastnet.it
Repaint: Alejandro Hurtado dracosist@cantv.net

Welcome Air has one Do-328J (OE-LJR) and two Do-328 turboprop (OE-LIR, OE-GBB). It has a web page, but I only speak spanish and english. It flies between Rotterdam, Göteborg, Antwerpen, Innsbruck, Olbia, Hannover, Graz, Neapel and Innsbruck.

Fairchild Dornier Do 328 Jet
Passenger and transport aircraft, USA, 1998
History
The Fairchild Aerospace 328JET has given a new lease of life
to the basic 328 design and is pioneering a new class of
airliner, that of the 30 seat regional jet.
Development of the 328JET was launched soon after Fairchild
Aerospace took over Dasa's 80% stake in Dornier in mid 1996.
Soon after the then Fairchild Dornier (now Fairchild
Aerospace) launched a market survey of 50 regional airlines
worldwide which confirmed their customer driven preference for
jet equipment, as long as the operating economics of a
regional jet were competitive. Armed with this information,
Fairchild Dornier launched the 328JET, a jet engined
development of the 328 turboprop, in February 1997.
The most obvious change to the 328 for the 328JET is the
addition of FADEC equipped Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306
turbofans mounted in underwing pods. Aside from this though
the 328JET was designed to be a minimum change development of
the 328 turboprop to allow Fairchild to bring the aircraft to
market as quickly as possible. Fairchild was able to achieve
this because of the turboprop 328's conservative engineering
and clean aerodynamic design. Just two fuselage frames (which
the wing and landing gear attach to) required strengthening. A
10cm (4in) extension to the trailing edge flaps cuts
aerodynamic drag. Other changes include strengthened landing
gear and brakes, slight changes to the software of the
Honeywell Primus 2000 EFIS avionics suite, and an APU is
standard.
The first 328JET prototype was converted from the second 328
turboprop, and was rolled out on December 6 1997. It first
flew from Munich in Germany on January 20 1998. Certification
and first deliveries are planned for February/March 1999.
Two developments of the 328JET have been considered so far.
Fairchild decided to drop development of the 42 to 44 seat
428JET due to a congested marketplace and is instead
developing the 55-63 seat powered 528JET (part of the 728JET
family). Meanwhile the Envoy 3 is a corporate jet development
of the 328JET.
Copyright © Aerospace Publications
From Airliners.net

With the completing of the development, the Do 328 line was sold from Daimler Chrysler Aerospace to Fairchild (1998). Even a commercial success, Fairchild encountered financial difficulties in 2000. The Fairchild-Dornier company closed when after the launch of the Do 728Jet they didn't found enought founds to start the production. In the personal, I think that the original DO-328 is a streamlined ATR-42.

Powerplants
Two 26.9kN (6050lb) Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306B turbofans.
Performance
328JET - Max cruising speed 741km/h (400kt). Max operating
altitude at standard max takeoff weight 31,000ft, at optional
MTOW 35,000ft. Takeoff field length 1240m (4070ft). Design
range with 32 passengers at 31,000ft 1665km (900nm). Envoy 3 -
Range with 10 passengers 3705km (2000nm).
Weights
328JET - Operating empty 9200kg (20,282lb), standard max
takeoff 14,990kg (33,047lb), optional max takeoff 15,200kg
(33,510lb). Envoy 3 - Operating empty 9421kg (20,770lb), max
takeoff 14,990kg (33,047lb).
Dimensions
Wing span 20.98m (68ft 10in), length 21.22m (69ft 8in), height
7.23m (23ft 9in). Wing area 40.0m2 (430.6sq ft).
Capacity
Flightcrew of two. Standard seating for 32 to 34 passengers
three abreast at 79cm (31in). Envoy 3 seats 12 to 14 in a
typical corporate configuration, or up to 19.
Production
20 firm orders announced by late 1998.
Type
32 seat regional jet airliner


My previous repaints are:

Ju52mlka: Ju-52 owned by Milka chocolats company, in flying state
b727ah1: Green and yellow Braniff's 727
b727ah2: 727 flow by Viasa when was bought by Iberia
b727ah3: Braniff 727 painted by Alexander Calder
b727ah4: One of the first 727 flow by Kulula.com
md11ah5: MD-11F from Eva Air Cargo
b190ah6: Beech 1900D from Us Air Express
b190ah7: Beech 1900D from the canarian island's Air Atlantic
b737ah8: American Airlines Astrojet, a 2001 plane painted like the 60´s
l1011ah9: Two L1011 leased by Iberia
tornah10: Tornado in 2001 Tiger Meet painting
b727ah11: Alaska Airlines 727 leased to the Seattle NFL Team Seahawks
b737ah12: A BWIA 737-800 in caribean decoration.
c235ah13: This CN-235 was used by the spanish line Binter Mediterraneo

Warranty:
I love the warranty wrote by Andrew W. Hall:
"None. Zip. Nada. Use at your own risk. I don’t think
this will harm your computer in any way, but if it does, I
don’t even want to hear about it."

A last remark: Why don't become a repainter? There are a lot of planes with special markings. I'm tired of the usual F-16 low-vis scheme, or the usual 757 in Delta markings. Why don't a Tornado Tiger Meet or a serie of Easy Jet's 737s? The plane modelers like D.Turcato are very important, but they can't make all the painting schemes by himselfs. So why don't help they?

Installation:

Just unzip d328ah14.zip in your "Aircraft" folder of FS2002, install your desired panel and that's all. If you don't know how to install a panel, just let the default King Air 350.

If you like this, or any observation, send me a mail to dracosist@cantv.net