RON SMITH COLLECTION
No. 11268. Riley Executive 400 (F-BGOA c/n 04344)
Photographed at Eastleigh airport, Southampton, UK, ca. 1970, by Ron Smith

Riley Executive 400

03/31/2012. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "First flown in 1963, the Riley Executive 400 was a remanufactured de Havilland D.H.104 Dove light transport with turbocharged fuel injected engines and airframe modifications. By mid-1964 two conversions had been made by Riley Aeronautics of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, when it was announced that McAlpine Aviation of Luton Airport, Bedfordshire, England, had been appointed sole servicing and conversion engineers for all territories outside North and South America for the Riley Dove conversions. The first McAlpine conversion to Riley Executive 400 standard was completed by mid-1965.

The Riley Executive 400 conversion was available from Riley and McAlpine in six stages, any one of which could be taken on its own if the customer did not want a complete conversion:


Created March 31, 2012