what kind of corporate jet is this?

[Fast Freddy]

during the last 1 and half minutes of this video you will see Elvis get in a corporate jet and fly away. does anybody know what kind of jet this is? note how tall the plane is and the tail wing configuration. i don't think it is a Lear :screwy: i have searched the net and have come up with only two jets for Elvis. the Convair 880 that he named the Lisa Marie and the Lockeed Jetstar he gave to the Colonel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgCAteSu-IU&feature=related

 

[Kayvan]

Lear

Lear

 

[Empty Pockets]

Lear

+1

 

[robt777]

Definitely not a Lear. It's a Gulfstream G series. The prop plane in the background is a Convair 580.

 

[Empty Pockets]

Definitely not a Lear. It's a Gulfstream G series. The prop plane in the background is a Convair 580.

'Sure looks like the Lear a friend of mine had about 400 years ago! :willy

(Buuuuuuuut, it HAS been a day or two since I last saw it...sooooo...)

 

[Fast Freddy]

robt777 - "Definitely not a Lear. It's a Gulfstream G series. The prop plane in the background is a Convair 580."

it seems that you are right :thumbsup

this is one sweet bird :cheers

it still has that baller look to it even today :eek

 

[Mike Mosing]

It's a Gulfstream G2. Not convinced about the other plane being a Convair. I think it is a Gulfstream G1..

 

[robt777]

Fast Freddy - Awsome youtube video.

 

[ChipBeck]

Gulfstream G II

Gentlemen,

The aircraft in the photo is a Gulfstream G-2. The Gulfstream G-1 was a turboprop aircraft and the G2 was Gulfstream's first business jet. The first G-2s were produced in 1966. That is a 1972 video, and very few business jets were produced back then. The 4 engine JetStar was the first. The aircraft in the background is indeed a Gulfstream G-1. Note that the nose and very distinctive cockpit windows are the same on both aircraft.

Chip

 

[Fast Freddy]

i was born in 66......:cool

my grandfather Fred was born on July 4th 1886 :eek

he fought in world war 1 :usa

 

[Empty Pockets]

'Sure looks like the Lear a friend of mine had about 400 years ago! :willy

(Buuuuuuuut, it HAS been a day or two since I last saw it...sooooo...)

'Couldn't stand it, so I called Brian and asked him what kinda bird he had "back when". Darned if it wasn't a Gulf'! And here all these years I've thought it was a Lear! :rofl

 

[Gulf GT]

i was born in 66......:cool

my grandfather Fred was born on July 4th 1886 :eek

he fought in world war 1 :usa

My family still has a rifle used by my great, great, great.... Grandfather when he fought in the Revolutionary War. It has hung on the wall above the dining room for every family since the late 1700's. My family went to the same church as George Washington and they spent much time together. We also have the boat manifest of when that relative's great grandfather came to America in 1652. This is the first July 4th without my father, and all these things meant very much to him. I have been thinking about him all day, and wondering while I was watching the fireworks display tonight what it must have been like for my forefather to see real bombardments at night in the Revolutionary War.

 

[Indy GT]

There is no way Elvis's plane could be mistaken as a Lear (all the early Lear offerings had large tip tanks and the aircraft was small, low to the ground on the undercarrage and very pointy nose) or mistaken as a JetStar (big fuselage and two tail mounted pods of two engines each, 4 total).

Thanks Chip for the G2 answer and the brief bio.