Sabreliner 65 – an unusual jet in town
The past few days there’s been a corporate jet parked at YXY of a type I didn’t recognize, so this afternoon I finally took a few minutes and stopped for a good look. The Mexican-registered beauty, XB-RSH, is a 1980 Rockwell NA-265-65 Sabreliner. The really cool thing about the Sabreliner 65 is that only 76 were built, and all 76 are still flying today.
I actually spent a little longer at the airport than I’d planned on. The shot of the “Sabre 65” that I’d planned on was blocked by this RCAF Search and Rescue Twin Otter (#13802) just as I was getting out of my car, so I had to move to a location with not as clean an angle of the plane(the photo above).
After the Twin Otter left I came back and shot the photo of the Sabreliner I’d planned on.
As much as I love jets, I love piston-engined birds even more. Here’s one of Air North’s Hawker Siddeley 748s. I haven’t heard yet what the completion date of the new terminal expansion is, but I doubt that the mess in front will be cleaned up before the white stuff gets deep.
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