"Don't crash in a trailer park, it'll take weeks for them to find you."

What a "funny little fella." And such a purposeful burst of speed in taking off! Love it!

Really enjoyed flying on the commercial version of this airframe. Into and out of really small airports and a lot of headroom. Great job of designing and building an aircraft that wasn’t a dinky tube with wings stuck on it.

Described by a Sky Van pilot as...

Just proves, with powerful enough engines, anything can fly!

A perfect example of an aircraft that is exactly the shape it should be for its purpose!

The flying box :) Amazing footage :)

I used to play top trumps as a kid in the 70's, this was one of the aircraft that always fascinated me.

In a recent video on the Skyvan I commented that I live about two mile from where these were built by Shorts in Belfast. They buzzed over my house regularly. The sound of the engines in this upload are nostalgic for me as in their heyday I could hear them frantically buzzing on take off. The Skyvan was later developed into passenger versions namely the SD33 and SD36 which respectively carried 33 and 36 passengers. Shorts have a long and disinguished connection with the British Royal Air Force. In the 1960s they built 10 Belfast freighters for the RAF which were the largest cargo aircraft in the world at that time. In the late 1970s the RAF sold them off to a commercial cargo carrier named Heavylift. Most of their work was carrying heavy mining equipmment down through Africa. When the Falklands war unexpectedly broke out in the late nineteen eighties the RAF found itself without a heavy cargo plane and somewhat embarrassingly had to lease back the Belfast freighters at great expense. They are now obsolete as each one had to be cannabalised to keep the next one flying.

Skyvan is definitely the right name for this aircraft.

I remember Henson aviation used these planes too fly from Salisbury MD. Too BWI in Baltimore t proved too be a very reliable and safe aircraft thank you for the video brings back good memories

Nice aircraft I have many jumps out of the back door..lots of

The paint on those props is COOL!!!!

Spent many hours in one, an unpretentious plane designed to do a job which it did brilliantly!

Okay, I get it... made by Lego, powered by flower petals, and definitely failed the wind tunnel test. Yet, with enough runway, it lifts off and makes it into the air - then with luck, it returns and sets down nice and easy. Yep, it's a winner!

Wow, she sounds incredible! Fantastic footage mate! Absolutely love it!

I loved that he just taxiied over the grass. Who needs a centerline or pavement, we're a flying box! :-)

What a unique aircraft the Skyvan is! Beautiful video mate!

Nice... seems stable and simple. Be a good fit for island hopping in Caribbean

Just love the sound change at 5.28 when pilot opens throttles. Pure music..... 😀😀