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**Savoia** · 20th October 2015, 18:11

SA341G 4X-BHG (cn 1097) as seen in Israel in the 1980's

This craft went on to become a Crabtree Gazelle and was registered as HA-LFA. She now flies with a new owner in Hungary. Click here to see HA-LFA in the snow.

See more Hebrew Gazelles here.

**Zishelix** · 21st October 2015, 14:59

Chinese Army SA342 Gazelle LH 94307

Plus ... is the UK about to sell some more military Gazelles? See my post in Gazelles for Sale.

**Savoia** · 21st October 2015, 17:48

L'Armée de Terre SA342L 'GAF' departing Aéroport de Rennes–Saint-Jacques in Brittany

**Savoia** · 21st October 2015, 18:47

Gaz Art

Seeing as we have a Gazelle artist in our midst, I thought it might be an idea to look at some additional pieces of Gazelle art:

Chieftain Tanks with Gazelle Helicopter by Frank Wootton

And for the die-hard Gaz fans, a close-up of the Gaz:

**Savoia** · 21st October 2015, 19:29

Britain's Highest Pub!

At the top of the Yorkshire Dales, 1,732 feet above sea-level and 11 miles from the nearest town, sits the Tan Hill Inn, a 17th century pub which lays claim to being the highest in Britain!

Read about the Tan Hill Inn

PDG AS350B2 G-BVJE lands at the inn

**Savoia** · 21st October 2015, 20:13

Prefer the truth?

Check out the latest at:

**Zishelix** · 22nd October 2015, 07:35

Gazelle artwork! Interesting theme… let me see what I have about UK ones:

AH.1 over Salisbury Plain by Michael Rondot

A postcard by F. Perret

And 665th Sqdn Night Hawks by David Charlesworth

**Savoia** · 24th October 2015, 08:58

Army Air Corps SA341B XX453 (cn 1454) currently with 654 Squadron

**Savoia** · 24th October 2015, 09:20

SA341G G-IZEL (cn WA1098) as seen at AAC Middle Wallop on 8th May 1992 (Photo: Ken Viden)

**Rotorspot** · 24th October 2015, 10:36

Coming back once more to F-WQGY, see previous discussions here and here.

It has now been confirmed that F-WQGY, c/n 2165 is ex-Chinese PLAAF serial LH94301 (picture proof with visible serial and c/n).

Cheers,
Jos.

**Savoia** · 25th October 2015, 09:11

29 (BATUS) Flight, Army Air Corps - Suffield, Canada

Well gentlemen .. you've heard it now .. from a British Army Officer - the Gazelle is a 'hairdresser's car!'

**Zishelix** · 26th October 2015, 15:46

A 'hairdresser's car'? LOL! Maybe we should re-name this thread!

HOT armed French SA342L1 1664/AVE demonstrating its ambush tactics:

**Zishelix** · 27th October 2015, 08:05

An older photo of F-GDXX's instrument panel... an IFR equipped Gazelle!

Some newer shots of the same panel can be seen in post #998.

**Zishelix** · 27th October 2015, 20:32

French Army Commandos jump from an ALAT Gazelle a few metres off the beach in Arcachon, southwestern France, as part of a special operations training exercise which took place in April this year. (Photo Vincent Massé)

**Zishelix** · 28th October 2015, 10:05

The Gazelle Sqdn's G-CBSK / ZB627/A "Ginger" at the RAF Northolt Night Photocall in October 8th, 2015. (Photo: Mark Kwiatkowski)

**Savoia** · 28th October 2015, 18:49

A small round of 'Gazelle Snap' in response to some of Zishelix's posts on this page:

Chinese Gaz ..

Chinese Army LH-94301

'Hiding' Gazelle ..

SA341B ZB692-Y as partly seen at Salisbury Plains Training Area in 2014

IFR Gazelle Panel ..

SA342 owned by Waldron Lynn (Photo courtesy of Steve)

Commando Gaz ..

L'armée de Terre SA342 uplifting commandos from a small pebble bank in Corsica during 'Exercise Gorgones' in October 2015

And ..

I will raise you one US-based Gazelle ..

SA341G N341WC (cn 1188) as seen over the Biscayne Bay in Florida

**Zishelix** · 29th October 2015, 12:57

Some interior shots of HA-LFC

**Zishelix** · 30th October 2015, 13:14

A small (pity

) image of Burundi AF's SA342L

**Rotorspot** · 1st November 2015, 12:25

I found another (blurred) image of a Burundi Gazelle, marked as 9U-ZFN.

Does anyone perhaps recognize the colour scheme so we can identify this one?

Cheers, Jos.

**Savoia** · 2nd November 2015, 07:46

More Gaz Interiors ..

SA341D HT3 G-CBSK (ZB627) at Bourne Park on 16th Oct 2015 (Photo: Andrew Morley)

The is a Gazelle interior we 'may' be seeing more of in the future!

North American Gazelles ..

SA341G N341AH (cn 1032) as seen in 1976

SA341G N341AH (cn 1032) as seen in 1976 and shown here with side-mounted search light

**Savoia** · 2nd November 2015, 16:45

Originally posted by md600driver

This Gazelle is at the moment being rebuilt in Romania.

And then, as if by magic, Airbus posted the following photos on their Romania website yesterday:

Completed Gazelles at Airbus' facility in Brasov Romania

Staff from Airbus Romania working on a Gazelle

Overhauled fenestron

Gazelle ground run

An overhauled SA342L (cn 5015) TR-KCQ belonging to the Air Force of Gabon

A quote from the site reads:

Airbus Helicopters Romania is a specialized maintenance and repair centre for a wide range of helicopters, both civil and military, operating in Romania and elsewhere in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The company is already known worldwide for its capacity, craftsmanship and sense of duty in performing repair, overhaul and upgrading on the entire old range (Puma and Gazelle), the Super Puma, the Daphin / Panther, the Ecureuil families and the H135 helicopter.

http://www.airbushelicopters.ro/overhaul.html

For those of us less familiar with the world of Gazelles, can anyone offer an indication as to how long Airbus/Eurocopter/Aérospatiale/Sud have been overhauling Gazelles in Romania?

**Savoia** · 2nd November 2015, 20:29

Gazelles in Romania

This is very interesting Zis.

I was going to say that after looking at the Airbus Romania website that their service seemed to offer an alternative to the Valence-based Aerotec Group but .. perhaps Aerotec is involved in this venture in some way, although it seems now to be under the Airbus umbrella?

I wonder how their overhaul prices compare?

I have to say that I've not commonly heard of Gazelles being overhauled in Romania and which is why I was asking how long they have been doing this.

**Savoia** · 3rd November 2015, 08:42

SA341F2 ZU-HHP (cn 1992) as seen at Mkuze Gorge, Mkuze Game Reserve, Zululand, South Africa, in October 2015
(Photo: Andre Botha)

**Zishelix** · 3rd November 2015, 10:55

2nd Gazelle delivered to the French Army, 1027/BDD at the beginning of it's flying career back in 1973

**Savoia** · 4th November 2015, 08:47

SA341 F-ZWRL (cn 02) c. late 60's - early 70's

**Zishelix** · 4th November 2015, 11:35

Another pre-production machine:

SA341-04 F-ZWRK during demo flight

**Zishelix** · 4th November 2015, 14:36

Cool item from eBay.

**Savoia** · 5th November 2015, 08:10

Zis, any clues as to which craft this might be?

**Zishelix** · 5th November 2015, 08:43

Arrgh, please don't remind me as this one is still in my "Unknown Gazelles" file. I assume it's an SA.341G delivered to Venezuela back in mid 1970's but can't find any proof for that.

A few years ago I spotted this blurry image on the Internet and I think its the same machine.

It was poorly scanned out of an old Aerospatiale brochure which appeared for sale on eBay. Sadly some other bidder offered more for the item!

**Savoia** · 5th November 2015, 10:18

For Zishelix ..

To celebrate Kurt's kindness in arranging some scans of a brochure you've been waiting to get your hands on!

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