This helicopter was built by Bell Textron in Canada and was cancelled from the Canadian register on 19.1.09 as C-FXSY.
UPDATE - May 2010
I'd like to thank Jacek Wójcis for supplying the photo of SP-NAM taken at Bydgoszcz in May 2010
Steve
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Monday, 10 May 2010
SP-NAM - Bell 427
Bell 427 c/n 56076 was reported passing through Amsterdam Schipol in The Netherlands as cargo on 22.1.10.
This helicopter was built by Bell Textron in Canada and was cancelled from the Canadian register on 19.1.09 as C-FXSY.
I'd like to thank Jacek Wójcis for supplying the photo of SP-NAM taken at Bydgoszcz in May 2010
Steve
This helicopter was built by Bell Textron in Canada and was cancelled from the Canadian register on 19.1.09 as C-FXSY.
I'd like to thank Jacek Wójcis for supplying the photo of SP-NAM taken at Bydgoszcz in May 2010
Steve
Thursday, 6 May 2010
G-BWDF - PZL 104 Wilga 35A - UK Accident 6th May 2010
Today, the 6th May 2010 is General Election day in the UK - people have been voting since 7am this morning.
At about 8am reports came in of a light aircraft plane crash at the airfield at Hinton in the Hedges. On board was Nigel Farage a parliamentary candidate ( for the UKIP party ) and a pilot.
The crashed aircraft is a PZL 104 Wilga 35A G-BWDF. There are reports that the aircraft was trailing a towing banner promoting the UKIP party and that this might have become caught in the rudder of the aircraft. Both the pilot and Mr Farage have been taken to hospital for treatment. Photos from the accident site show the aircraft inverted with major damage to the cockpit area.
G-BWDF c/n 21950955 is one of the last Wilga to have been built having first flown in July 1995 at the PZL Okecie factory in Warsaw Poland. When it was deliverd in was painted in a two tone green camoflague c/s and was based at White Waltham airfield to the West of London. For several years it sat parked at White Waltham as the grass grew aound it.
External Link to photo of G-BWDF in its original green colours
By late 1999 it was dismantled and removed from White Waltham by lorry. It underwent a rebuild at Rushett Farm airstrip near Chessington and was back in the air by 2003 ( with just 22 flight hours in total ). In 2004 it was seen at Husbands Bosworth airfield acting as a glider tug.
By 2006 it was operating from the airfield at Dunsfold still painted green but by 2008 it had been repainted dark blue. In recent years the aircraft has been operated by "Sky Banners". The aircraft had flown 239 flight hours by 31.12.2008.
Let's hope the pilot and the passenger make a full recovery.
More info here via the Sky News website news story
More info here via the BBC News website news story
Steve
At about 8am reports came in of a light aircraft plane crash at the airfield at Hinton in the Hedges. On board was Nigel Farage a parliamentary candidate ( for the UKIP party ) and a pilot.
The wreck of Wilga G-BWDF - Photo courtesy Sky News
The crashed aircraft is a PZL 104 Wilga 35A G-BWDF. There are reports that the aircraft was trailing a towing banner promoting the UKIP party and that this might have become caught in the rudder of the aircraft. Both the pilot and Mr Farage have been taken to hospital for treatment. Photos from the accident site show the aircraft inverted with major damage to the cockpit area.
G-BWDF c/n 21950955 is one of the last Wilga to have been built having first flown in July 1995 at the PZL Okecie factory in Warsaw Poland. When it was deliverd in was painted in a two tone green camoflague c/s and was based at White Waltham airfield to the West of London. For several years it sat parked at White Waltham as the grass grew aound it.
External Link to photo of G-BWDF in its original green colours
By late 1999 it was dismantled and removed from White Waltham by lorry. It underwent a rebuild at Rushett Farm airstrip near Chessington and was back in the air by 2003 ( with just 22 flight hours in total ). In 2004 it was seen at Husbands Bosworth airfield acting as a glider tug.
By 2006 it was operating from the airfield at Dunsfold still painted green but by 2008 it had been repainted dark blue. In recent years the aircraft has been operated by "Sky Banners". The aircraft had flown 239 flight hours by 31.12.2008.
Let's hope the pilot and the passenger make a full recovery.
More info here via the Sky News website news story
More info here via the BBC News website news story
Steve
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
Polish Army Mil 8P arrives at UK Museum
On the 5th February Mil 8P serial 618 arrived at the Helicopter Museum in Weston Super Mare, Somerset, England.
Photo courtesy of the Helicopter Museum at Weston Super Mare UK
The Mil 8 had travelled by road from the Polish Army airbase at Leznica Wielka. This Mil 8 has square windows and was originally delivered in 1972 to 36 splt as a VIP transport based at Warsaw Okecie airport. It was later passed on to the Polish Army endings its services with 37 Dywizjon Lotnicze ( 37 DL ) at Leznica Wielka in central Poland.
More photos can be found on the link below
http://www.hmfriends.org.uk/mi8polish.htm
Steve
Photo courtesy of the Helicopter Museum at Weston Super Mare UK The Mil 8 had travelled by road from the Polish Army airbase at Leznica Wielka. This Mil 8 has square windows and was originally delivered in 1972 to 36 splt as a VIP transport based at Warsaw Okecie airport. It was later passed on to the Polish Army endings its services with 37 Dywizjon Lotnicze ( 37 DL ) at Leznica Wielka in central Poland.
More photos can be found on the link below
http://www.hmfriends.org.uk/mi8polish.htm
Steve
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