Thursday, March 22, 2007

More Dornier DO228 pictures...

After my initial post of a couple of days ago, here are some more pictures of the Air West Coast Dornier DO228. As in my last post, this is the only DO228 in the country at this time, although apparently there were some around a few years ago.

This aircraft is very very nice inside. There are only 14 passenger seats installed [down from a maximum of 19 that could be put on], so there is heaps of leg room. The seats are comfortable also. I'm not sure what the noise levels would be like with a couple of Garrett turbo-props just outside the windows [and it is extremely noisy outside when it starts up!], but I'm told it's not too bad.

Outside, it has a huge nose [baggage compartment] and is quite square, but still a really nice looking aircraft.

Enjoy the pics!

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3 comments:

NZAviation said...

Kia Ora magazine?

Rodney said...

Yeah, for real :-)

Lots of leg room - in fact, with a square fuselage, there was lots of room all round.

NZAviation said...

Yea! The cockpit doesnt look like the most spacious cabin of the 19 seat class. The Jetstream 31 seems to have a nice sized cockpit though.