"Stefan" wrote in message
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Kingfish schrieb:

There were pax aboard that flight? I thought it was a mfr test hop?

It was a demonstration flight on an airshow. This was the last such
flight in Europe with passengers aboard.

Stefan

It used to be fairly common for an airline with a nearby base to have one of
their aircraft make a low pass over the runway at an airshow--sometimes slow
and dirty (as this was planned to be), other times clean and fast, and
occasionally one of each. It was a way to showcase their presence, and also
provided an interesting contrast of sizes and characteristics...

Peter