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Beech 1900C

 

Beech 1900c
     
 

Beech 1900 Image Gallery

  
     
 
Registation
Serial		 Const No. Aircraft
Type		 Aircraft History
VH-EMI
A53-001		 UC-109 Beech
1900C		 05.1990 Registered N109YV to UnEx-Mountain Airlines
09.1996 Registered F-GPYU to Air Littoral-UPS
20.02.2002 Registered N109YV to Raytheon Aircraft Credit Corp
26.06.2002 to Emu Air Charter
02.07.2002 Registered as VH-EMI.
Owned by Raytheon Australia.
Noted 09.2005 operating out of RAAF Edinburgh, SA. fitted with a ventral radome.
Carries DSTO titles on tail
18.06.2012 Registered to Hawker Pacific
23.10.2015 Cancelled from Australian register
Reported operating Learmonth to Cocos Keeling Islands as A53-001
29.10.2015 Sighted at Edinburgh carrying A53-001 having returned from Learmonth
04.11.2015 Defence Media has released photos showing the The AngelFire Electro-optical Wide Angle Aerial Surveillance system and PicoSAR Synthetic Aperture Radar systems (under radome) and the MX-20 L3 Wescam Electro-optical/Infrared sensor turret (see photos in our image gallery)
22/02/2016 Returned to civil register as VH-EMI to Department of Defence, Edinburgh (Reg. Operator Hawker Pacific)

VH-EMI Adelaide Airport   

 
     
     

This page is authored by Brendan Cowan & Martin Edwards

Source: CASA Aircraft Records, Plane Logger, Rego search

Photograph: Rod Farquhar.

Emails: Thanks for the information provided by; Rod Farquhar, Nathan Rundle, Richard Siudak,.

Converted to CMS 2nd September 2025

Updated 18th March 2016