Buckingham Shamal

A business jet on final approach through a pink sunset, photographed from below with the gear down: T-tail, two engines mounted on the rear fuselage, and winglets on both tips.

The camera is underneath the aircraft and slightly behind it, which is an awkward angle for identifying a plane and a very good one for reading its layout. The tail is a T: the horizontal stabiliser sits on top of the fin, clear of the jet efflux. Two engines hang on pylons from the sides of the rear fuselage rather than from the wings. The wings are low-set and carry upswept winglets at both tips, with rows of small vortex generators and panel lines across the underside.

The landing gear is extended. Two main units sit under the wing roots with twin wheels each, and the nose gear hangs down at the front, so this is an approach rather than a cruise shot. A red anti-collision light is burning on the belly.

There is a registration painted on the rear fuselage below the engine, and a dark marking on the fin. Neither survives the angle and the backlight: the registration begins with an N and the characters after it are shapes rather than letters. The sky behind is salmon and grey cloud.

How to recognise it

• T-tail: horizontal stabiliser mounted on top of the fin
• Two engines on pylons at the rear fuselage, not on the wings
• Upswept winglets at both wingtips
• Landing gear down, twin wheels on each main unit
• Red anti-collision light lit on the belly
• A registration on the rear fuselage beginning with N, otherwise illegible

The frame it comes from

The frame is a still from the official Press pack, which carries no timecode. It is 3840 by 2160, and the vehicle occupies 1075 by 907 of it. Also in it: the VICE CITY letters against the sunset and Vice City.

What we still do not know

• The registration, and the marking on the fin
• The livery. From below we see the underside, which is plain.
• Whether this is the same aircraft as the business jet parked at night in the Extended Look
• Everything measured: top speed, ceiling, price, where it spawns