Photos of visitors 1995-2002

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Hi All,

Before the digital revolution I used to take 35mm transparencies, over the last few years I have scanned these.

Although the quality is not as good as the original it is a convienent way of storing my slides.

So here are a selection from 1995 to 2002 some of the early ones are very grainy but are included for interest.

Nov 1995 When President Clinton came to town



1997 USAF transports





1998 and this was not a show visitor



And my 1st biz jet movement photo leaving during SBAC 1998 arrivals week



1999 A6-HRS 1st visit without winglets



2000




Remember Chauffair?



2001



Channel Express operated AN72



The days before Felix!!! G-CORP



2002



Hecate moves to FAST







Biz visitors during SBAC 2002





N200UP with colourful tail!







Left in the southern compound after the show.


I discover Eelmoor









As I said quality not superb but I hope you find them interesting

Cheers

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Some brilliant memories there. G-CORP, ES-NOB and Chauffair especially.

I've not heard about the Presidential visit before, what happened? Obviously Clinton came to London but which aircraft visited Farnborough?

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oh please the laughter still hurts the convoys of Fake CARS with GIs running alongside through
town center the Helio circuits on 18/36 oh so much Fun that was . and the nice to be in
Little old england oh it was fun

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and yes o

G-HCFR Chaufair suddenly closed down we all heard rumours of what occured affairs revenge
etc etc never did hear the truth

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Hi

If my memory serves me right Clinton came to the UK to do something with the Northern Ireland Good Friday Agreement.

Why his entourage chose Farnborough to base themselves, I've no idea, as he was tucked away in the US Embassy.

As Tony remarks it was fun though I think there were 3 VH3Ds, a couple of CH47s plus numerous cars which all arrived in C5As

The choppers were doing continual circuits.

I was probably risking it bit sneaking that picy through the fence, but as the choppers kept me up at night I
thought it was the least they could let me do!!!

The US seemed to like FAB for a few years hence the C141 pics, not the ones included but when Hilary Clinton attended Lady Diana's funeral in Aug 1999 her back up came in a C141.

Memories eh!

Cheers

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I had a friend in the Royal Navy who was based at Farnborough during the presidential visit, he was connected with Merlins at the time and working on how to get a computer to last more than an hour whilst being shaken around in the then new Navy helicopter he got numerous flights and lots of Gizzets from the presidential helicopter crews ;D git ;D

Other memories I have were of I believe two Russian Air Force (with the red star on the tail) AN124's, cant remember why they were here but it was outside the airshow season, the crews from these were to be found in Farnborough shopping centre quite a lot during their stay, they would take the queens pound for any badge or part of uniform you cared to want !! were never there when I was though....again gits

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The 2 ANT Were here to collect cars for a Race poss Tanssiberian quite a sight those days ,
And we were still able then to stand by the fence by 18 Touchdown

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Jan 18, 2011 20:06:39 GMT 1 Admin (Annette Andria) said:

And we were still able then to stand by the fence by 18 Touchdown

You can still stand there today, but you cant see anything usless you like watching grass grow ;D

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happy days standing there watching them change that Engine .on the ANT # Then the infamous
rows over the Covering of the Fnce at show time.

this is just after start of works at 18

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Jan 18, 2011 19:44:35 GMT 1 @eelmoor said:

I had a friend in the Royal Navy who was based at Farnborough during the presidential visit, he was connected with Merlins at the time and working on how to get a computer to last more than an hour whilst being shaken around in the then new Navy helicopter he got numerous flights and lots of Gizzets from the presidential helicopter crews ;D git ;D

Other memories I have were of I believe two Russian Air Force (with the red star on the tail) AN124's, cant remember why they were here but it was outside the airshow season, the crews from these were to be found in Farnborough shopping centre quite a lot during their stay, they would take the queens pound for any badge or part of uniform you cared to want !! were never there when I was though....again gits

As I remember, the two military AN124s were there to take a load of Land Rovers over to an event (forget what it was now) They were numbered '09' & '10' I also have '82038' & '82026' respectively for them, which look very like the numerical part of civil registered examples, were they dual registered? As far as I remember, only the 09 & 10 were visible on the aircraft but then I was viewing from the perimeter fence!

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Jan 17, 2011 22:47:19 GMT 1 @jph727 said:

Some brilliant memories there. G-CORP, ES-NOB and Chauffair especially.

I've not heard about the Presidential visit before, what happened? Obviously Clinton came to London but which aircraft visited Farnborough?

Those were the days: I used to love seeing the AN72s on horse charters during such events as Royal Ascot. ES-NOB was the first one I saw at FAB and was, by far, the most common one for a while. Once or twice it was joined by ES-NOG. Others I've seen at Farnborough since are: ES-NOI, ES-NOK, YL-KSA, YL-KSB. The sight of these certainly made life more interesting! I also have ER-AVD & ER-AVE in my book, would I have seen these in FAB?