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G-HEBO : BN-2B-26 Islander : Hebridean Air Services.
Still active with Hebridean in 2025, now 30 years old.

taken from a ferry

another re edit
"Auora" or "Aurora" is a name that can refer to a few different things. It is a baby name meaning "dawn" or "morning light" and is associated with the Northern Lights. It is also the name of a brand that focuses on natural beauty products, including skincare and fragrances, according to their website. Furthermore, "Aurora" is a character in Disney's Sleeping Beauty.
Here's a more detailed look at the different meanings:
Baby Name:
"Auora" or "Aurora" is a popular baby name, with variations in spelling, and it's often chosen for its association with the beauty of dawn or the Northern Lights, says BabyCenter.
Brand:
"AUORA" is a brand that focuses on creating natural and luxurious skincare and fragrance products, according to their website. Their products are designed to harness the beauty of flowers and botanical extracts.
Character:
"Aurora" is the name of the princess in Disney's Sleeping Beauty, often referred to as Sleeping Beauty.

With little light pollution, the Outer Hebrides are one of the best places to catch the Northern Lights! You can take your pick from Lewis, Harris, Uist or Barra. With the right weather conditions, each island will treat you to a mesmerizing dancing display of the Aurora Borealis.

Known as Fir Chlis in Gaelic, the Northern Lights are usually most common in winter, although you can catch the as early as September and as late as April. Be prepared to be awestruck by the sheer beauty of the spectacular changing hues of turquoise, green and red.

The Outer Hebrides has some of the darkest skies in the UK. Many astronomical sights can be seen through the naked eye including the Orion Nebula, the Milky Way and the Great Andromeda galaxy. The winter here gets dark late afternoon, and a great opportunity to not only to keep your eyes peeled for the Northern Lights but just look up and stargaze.

Each year in February there is a fabulous Dark Skies Festival which features theatre, live music, film, visual art, food, astronomy talks, and stargazing.

Check out the Aurora Watch Western Isles Facebook page for a literal heads up!

This lovely aircraft taxi-ing into Isle of Coll airport having left Tiree. Next and final stop after Coll is Oban.

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I think this snap just sums up the many beaches scattered throughout the fabulous Hebrides. Beautiful and empty of people…..and if there is someone on the beach you just drive along to the next beach ☀️

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Hebridean Air Services
Britten BN-2 Islander
Inbound from Tiree Airport, Scotland for a touch + go
Glasgow Prestwick Airport
EGPK
Scotland
19/03/2025

YP12 NUU is a Scania K360IB4/Irizar i6 new to Griffin, Gravesend in June 2012. It later operated for Pullmanor, Herne Hill in May 2015.

It then went to the Isle of Lewis with MacLennan of Stornoway before joining the MacIver, Stornoway fleet who trade as Hebridean Transport.

The MV Hebridean Isles has been at the Dock since Mid November 2024, awaiting to be scrapped..
She was launched in 1985 in Selby North Yorkshire on the River Ouse ( Sideways ) .She was launched Sideways as the Ouse is narrow at Selby. She was built by Cochrane Shipyard and was the First Caledonian MacBrayne ship to be built outside Scotland
She sailed Scotlands West Coast. Originally on the Uig; Triangle,then Islay and Colonsay. in 2024 She was also used to supplement another ferry on the Arran crossing..
A sad sight as she awaits the inevitable.😢😢

I was lucky, very lucky to find and then win this on eBay, I think the last time the kit was released was 2006. This particular kit though, is a 1972 Airfix, 1/72 scale, set of the Britten Norman Islander. The BN Islander, which is still in production, is one of Europe’s best selling commercial aircraft. It is a high wing, Short Take Off & Landing (STOL) plane, with 1 pilot and capacity of 9 passengers, top speed of 170mph, service ceiling of 13,000ft and range of 869 miles.

The Islander is used on the shortest commercial flight in the world, Loganair’s inter-island service linking Westray to Papa Westray (1.7 miles, average flight time 1min30). Additionally the Islander was the fixed wing Scottish Air Ambulance resource before the King Air was tendered for the service.

I have assembled the kit as is, without painting the already yellow plastic - beyond wheels, leading edge slats, and window trims. This lets me display it as G-HEBS (minus the “Hebridean” along the sides), operated by Hebridean Air Services. Hebridean are based at Oban airport and fly to and from; Benbecula, Coll, Colonsay, Islay, Stornoway, Tiree and offer charter, scenic & photography flights. Keeping the model in it’s base colour also allows the possibility of applying Scottish Ambulance transfers, or to fully paint it as either the Westray-Papa Westray Loganair, or perhaps in the orange and white or HM Coastguard - which would get around the lack of models of the Augusta Westland or Sikorsky helicopter types used by HMCG. Time will tell. Very simple little kit.

I was lucky, very lucky to find and then win this on eBay, I think the last time the kit was released was 2006. This particular kit though, is a 1972 Airfix, 1/72 scale, set of the Britten Norman Islander. The BN Islander, which is still in production, is one of Europe’s best selling commercial aircraft. It is a high wing, Short Take Off & Landing (STOL) plane, with 1 pilot and capacity of 9 passengers, top speed of 170mph, service ceiling of 13,000ft and range of 869 miles.

The Islander is used on the shortest commercial flight in the world, Loganair’s inter-island service linking Westray to Papa Westray (1.7 miles, average flight time 1min30). Additionally the Islander was the fixed wing Scottish Air Ambulance resource before the King Air was tendered for the service.

I have assembled the kit as is, without painting the already yellow plastic - beyond wheels, leading edge slats, and window trims. This lets me display it as G-HEBS (minus the “Hebridean” along the sides), operated by Hebridean Air Services. Hebridean are based at Oban airport and fly to and from; Benbecula, Coll, Colonsay, Islay, Stornoway, Tiree and offer charter, scenic & photography flights. Keeping the model in it’s base colour also allows the possibility of applying Scottish Ambulance transfers, or to fully paint it as either the Westray-Papa Westray Loganair, or perhaps in the orange and white or HM Coastguard - which would get around the lack of models of the Augusta Westland or Sikorsky helicopter types used by HMCG. Time will tell. Very simple little kit.

I was lucky, very lucky to find and then win this on eBay, I think the last time the kit was released was 2006. This particular kit though, is a 1972 Airfix, 1/72 scale, set of the Britten Norman Islander. The BN Islander, which is still in production, is one of Europe’s best selling commercial aircraft. It is a high wing, Short Take Off & Landing (STOL) plane, with 1 pilot and capacity of 9 passengers, top speed of 170mph, service ceiling of 13,000ft and range of 869 miles.

The Islander is used on the shortest commercial flight in the world, Loganair’s inter-island service linking Westray to Papa Westray (1.7 miles, average flight time 1min30). Additionally the Islander was the fixed wing Scottish Air Ambulance resource before the King Air was tendered for the service.

I have assembled the kit as is, without painting the already yellow plastic - beyond wheels, leading edge slats, and window trims. This lets me display it as G-HEBS (minus the “Hebridean” along the sides), operated by Hebridean Air Services. Hebridean are based at Oban airport and fly to and from; Benbecula, Coll, Colonsay, Islay, Stornoway, Tiree and offer charter, scenic & photography flights. Keeping the model in it’s base colour also allows the possibility of applying Scottish Ambulance transfers, or to fully paint it as either the Westray-Papa Westray Loganair, or perhaps in the orange and white or HM Coastguard - which would get around the lack of models of the Augusta Westland or Sikorsky helicopter types used by HMCG. Time will tell. Very simple little kit.

Balgown, Skye on a stormy day.

Europe, Scotland, Western Isles, North Uist, a little person walking alone in the vast tranquility of Clachan Sands.