BEAGLE (British Executive and General Aviation Ltd) designed the B.125 Bulldog but production passed to Scottish Aviation at Prestwick after BEAGLE's collapse.
It appears that each customer were given their own designation - and in the case of the Nigerian Air Force - This was the Series 123 - of which they received some 37 airframes.
After the Nigerian Air Force fell over :-
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Below is a news snip from June 20 2012.
From Aviation Central
The Nigerian Air Force is selling the following military aircraft. MiG 21 Bis and; MF Fighters and; UM Trainers, Sepecat Jaguars, C-130s, Fokker 27, Bolkow 105s, Mi.31 and; Bulldogs, .
All the planes (with the exception of the Bulldog planes which are to be sold as scrap) are in good working condition and available for immediate inspection / purchase.
There are 13 Bulldogs for sale - located at Kaduna Air Force base, Nigeria.
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An earlier post by Greybeard on these airframes can be seen towards the bottom of the following link :-
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Caribou captured these Bulldog images at Palmerston North on the 29th June 2014.
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There are at least six fuselages and twenty plus sets of wings in this collection.
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P.S. Thanks to handbag for the interesting link below:-
If you want some more info I'd suggest getting in touch with David French of Milson Aerospace: https://www.facebook.com/milson.aerospace.ltd
ReplyDeleteAre the other serials also known?
ReplyDeleteYep. See new post.
ReplyDeletePopped in yesterday and saw a total of 11. Only one 253 looked like it was being worked on. Will send photo next week when back home.
ReplyDeleteWe have said goodbye (for now at least) to one of the projects (NAF253) which has gone to new owners for restoration in Taranaki. One has been donated to the Feilding ATC squadron. This leaves seven with us here at Milson Aerospace Limited for restoration and sale. Also our Chipmunk should be out of maintenance soon for the collection members to start flying. Regards, David French.
ReplyDeleteI reckon there were ten before 253 left:
ReplyDelete221/222/225/231 (inside)/234/239/243/246 and 253 (now departed). Initially I read 248 on some wings but in fact on closer examination of photo were for 246. Photos of all ten will be uploaded on aircraft-data.com in due course. So far only uploaded six of them.