Aircraft Operated by 625 Gliding School
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Sedburghs and Kirby cadets The original gliders were Sedberghs WB943 and WB 959, Kirby Cadet Mk 3s XE793, XN 241 and XE 907 (later replaced by WT 877) the colours of the gliders in 1958 were silver with yellow stripes. In 1967 the yellow stripes were replaced with red dayglow at the wing tips. The colours were changed again in 1973 to red and white fuselage, grey wings with red painted tips, red tailplane, fin and rudder. |
A viking TMk1 soaring | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ventures In September 1978 the VGS was equipped with two Venture Mk 2s, XZ 562 and XZ564 which later in 1982 became three Ventures, XZ 562, ZA 627 and ZA 666. |
A viking TMk1 soaring | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Viking TMk1s The current fleet at 625 VGS is seven Viking conventional gliders. Viking is the RAF designated name for the Grob 103A Twin II (aka Twin Astir). The Viking is a high performance two seater sailplane made primarily from glass fibre construction with non retractable undercarriage and upper surface airbrakes. It was designed for high performance gliding, training and simple aerobatic flying. Aircraft Particulars
The aircraft colours in 1985 when the school converted to Vikings was all white with red wing tips, dayglow stripes were added to the wings in 1998. Our current fleet includes ZE503, ZE520, ZE524, ZE608, ZE625, ZE656 and ZE678. |
A landing viking 
A viking from below |
Support Vehicles
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The Winch |
A viking TMk1 soaring |
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Landrover fleet |
One of our four Landrover Defenders |
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Tow Tractor |
Our Lamborghini Grand Prix 2000 Tractor |