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What about the Hungarian registered ones ?
The point I was trying to make was that there are European registered aircraft being used daily in the UK being maintained and overhauled in line with the country of registration's legislation. Brexit has potentially, opened up a can of worms in this respect, as it has with the likes of Ryanair with it's Irish registered aircraft.
For Hungarian aircraft it's business as usual, as they are EASA registered the same as UK 'G' registrations are EASA and are therefore unaffected by the Brexit, the same is also true of Ryanair's Irish-registered aircraft.
Speaking of XZ291, does anybody know where's she now? The last info I have about says 'offered for sale via tender won by Witham Specialist Vehicle Sales Ltd. in 2010.
Seen stored at RAF Shawbury in January 29th, 2010 (Photo: Chris Hall)
I may have asked this before and, if so, my apologies. However, does anyone know approximately how many Gazelles the British Army have left and .. do they plan to have another garage sale with them?
Also, when the MoD replace their training Ecureuils with the EC135 will the Army perhaps replace their Gazelles with any of these for 'light observation' and/or liaison duties?
Speaking of XZ291, does anybody know where's she now? The last info I have about says 'offered for sale via tender won by Witham Specialist Vehicle Sales Ltd. in 2010.
FYI: Witham Specialist Vehicles was the government contractor that carried-out the tender. They didn't actually buy any Gazelles.
If this was one of the 30 offered for sale then they were all purchased by the same South African company and I think everyone on here knows which ones are already flying. The others are in the process of maintenance, hopefully to flying standards.
XW863 (s/n 1114) was made for NAVY as HT Mk.2 and had it's first flight in September 1973. Serving mainly in 705 Sqdn at Culdrose it was coded 562 (CU/62) and 542 (CU/42). The machine was withdrawn from military service in June 1987 and allocated as ground instructional airframe at the School of Electrical & Aeronautical Engineering at Arborfield, marked TAD022. Since May this year it's a part of Farnborough Air Sciences Trust Museum.
Very nice. Presumably one of the advantages of that 'black-tailed' Sharks scheme was that it made cleaning a little less demanding for the ground crew.
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