catcrew
Flight Lieutenant
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Post by catcrew on Feb 10, 2019 8:00:26 GMT 12
Indeed "844" has been well looked after by the heritage flight (HF) volunteers. After a lot of checks and some minor tweaks over the last 2 weeks by HF and HARS volunteers both engines were fired up yesterday and wing fold mechanism exercised successfully. It sounded great. A credit to all involved.
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Post by colford on Feb 14, 2019 17:40:46 GMT 12
HARS Navy Heritage Flight have provided a new update on their Facebook page. The most exciting, interesting, from the perspective of seeing something from the ex-RAN FAA Heritage Flight in the air again soon, news is:
844 has been temporarily located in an approved maintenance hangar provided by Air Affairs and endorsed as a remote HARS Maintenance site by CASA. A significant number of HARS members have spent two blocks of continuous work over approx. 6+ F/T days and have now declared that the Tracker is eligible for a maintenance release to fly. This is a very significant and impressive achievement and the teams of volunteers were led by Mr. Bill Smith senior HARS LAME and Mr. Terry Hetherington senior ex RANFAA LAME. Tracker 844 will now be run weekly by qualified NHF volunteers to ensure this status is maintained.
More detail in the FB post on the other aircraft.
Certainly looks like one Iroquois UH-1B is slated for a return to the air in a reasonable timeframe and the Sea Fury is going to be properly evaluated for repair and restoration to possibly airworthy status.
These will all be good additions to the local warbird community and good to see them getting some long overdue love and attention.
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Post by ZacYates on Mar 6, 2019 11:14:54 GMT 12
HARS is to fly VH-ORI, their Lockheed AP-3C Orion, today. Pretty big news!
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Post by ErrolC on Mar 6, 2019 12:09:36 GMT 12
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Post by colford on Apr 24, 2019 18:07:47 GMT 12
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Post by colford on Sept 14, 2019 23:00:06 GMT 12
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Post by Calum on Sept 16, 2019 14:56:13 GMT 12
Damn I missed it leaving. But hopefully it can now be stored out of the weather and flown a bit more regularly
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Post by colford on Sept 16, 2019 15:11:51 GMT 12
HARS have indicated that they had some AV people getting footage of the preparation and ferry flight of Tracker 844 from Nowra to Albion Park. That footage is likely to get first viewing at the RAN FAA Tracker Reunion to be held at HARS on 23-24 October 2019, when Tracker 844 will also do some flying associated with that event (usual caveats re weather and serviceability) where more filming will be done. So certainly sounds like they have plans to keep the Tracker a bit more active now it is based at Albion Park. WOI 2020 participant?
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Post by Calum on Sept 17, 2019 14:19:24 GMT 12
HARS have indicated that they had some AV people getting footage of the preparation and ferry flight of Tracker 844 from Nowra to Albion Park. That footage is likely to get first viewing at the RAN FAA Tracker Reunion to be held at HARS on 23-24 October 2019, when Tracker 844 will also do some flying associated with that event (usual caveats re weather and serviceability) where more filming will be done. So certainly sounds like they have plans to keep the Tracker a bit more active now it is based at Albion Park. WOI 2020 participant? When I talked the guys working on it at Nowra in early 2019 they were hoping for it to fy at WOI 2019. So hopefully we'll see it at WOI in 2020.
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