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Post by motoxjase on Dec 25, 2010 16:10:20 GMT 12
Hi guys, I have a lot of friends and family in the RNZAF and Safe-Air and I will hear most rumours going around be it rumours to do with the Skyhawks etc but with the end in sight for the Huey I have not heard a single rumour so has any-one out there heard
any rumours regarding the end fate of the Huey once the NH-90 comes on board???
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Post by phil on Dec 25, 2010 17:02:38 GMT 12
It will continue to be operated until all the roles (CT, SAR etc) are fully up and running with the NH90 and sufficient crews trained to meet OLOC or DLOC or whichever it is (I can never remember!). The upshot being at least another few years of Huey operations yet.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 25, 2010 18:01:54 GMT 12
Phil, the ones that have already been taken out of service, are they currently inhibited in a hangar? Or have they been moved elsewhere?
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Post by phil on Dec 25, 2010 23:07:19 GMT 12
Sorry I'm not sure, I seem to recall they were in the hangar, but I've been away from Ohakea for a while now so I'm not up to speed on the latest.
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Post by motoxjase on Dec 26, 2010 6:41:03 GMT 12
One of the reasons I asked the question was because a couple of weeks ago while driving past Base Woodbourne I noticed a Huey parked up by the Training School and then a few days later I saw all the Seasprites parked up outside which got me wondering if the Training School will get hold of a number of the Hueys???
Also was the Huey I saw already used by the School???...just seemed to seemed to be an odd place to park up an operational Huey.
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Post by Gavin Conroy on Dec 26, 2010 7:41:26 GMT 12
The Huey was this one and it is an instructional airframe.  Here are 5 of the Seasprite helicopters when they were parked outside for a day or so, the 6th frame was parked on the other side out of view.  Went back the next day and got some photos of the four Strikemasters and four Mitsubishi aurcraft parked in a row and that looked quite neat. |
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Post by sqwark2k on Dec 26, 2010 8:36:13 GMT 12
Is there some work going on in the ATS hangar?? The ATC Flying course in January is having to use a grass flightline due to apron space being used by the Devon Instructional frames..... this with the pics above suggest the hangar is being emptied maybe?? A refurb perhaps?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 26, 2010 8:47:47 GMT 12
Getting ready to shift some Skyhawks in in the New Year is my guess.  |
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Post by Gavin Conroy on Dec 26, 2010 10:10:36 GMT 12
Apart from three Devons all of the aircraft are back inside now.
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Post by beagle on Dec 26, 2010 16:01:16 GMT 12
sounds like it was time to paint the hangar floor.
Would the seasprites we got be the same vintage etc as per the ex RAN ones before they were updated to G models.
What happened to our F models. one is at wigram ?, one is at Devonport ?
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Post by phil on Dec 26, 2010 17:33:51 GMT 12
The one at Devonport isn't one of ours, it's an ex USN frame that was being used by the fireys for training. There's some photos of it before it was painted on this board somewhere I think (that is assuming the Navy don't have another one? We took our very bare F model out to them a couple of months back to do some trials with).
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Post by aeromedia on Dec 26, 2010 18:31:49 GMT 12
Does it look like the remaining Devons are permanently outside now til their disposal?
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Post by beagle on Dec 26, 2010 19:01:35 GMT 12
i take it those sea sprites are runnable
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