Delivery

28th January 1999 was set as deliverydate. With a temperature of minus 17 degrees and the necessary preparations already in progress, the nerves of the boardmembers were still out of limit. Our promises were not yet fully accepted and final destination were still not decided. What was it going to be? Halmstad and the Fireschool or Arlanda and the clubs base? With the departure time at 13.00 already passed the phonecall finally came. And thumbs up for the boardmembers confirmed we were heading north! Sven Scheiderbauer from the Airforce Museum handed over the logbook to the clubs president Ola Carlsson and a sigh of relief spread over the apron. We entered the aircraft - destination Arlanda! Crew on this historic flight consisted of Bertil Kylborn, Jan Björkman and flight engineer Ove Karlsson. Representatives from Le Caravelle Club and the Airforce were also to be found on board. After the take off we made a lowpass over Malmslätt followed by one over the SAAB airfield then we finally gained altitude and headed for Stockholm. 40 minutes flight and final approach to runway 01 where a group of people saluted us when touching down and releasing the brakechute. The runway is 3300 meters so quite an overkill to use the shute but we wanted to show off a little bit as its quite unique feature on this size of aircraft. This was the great end of a long day. Aircraft finally on its new base but the ownership should come to remain with the Airforce until the replacement aircraft issue were solved.