Thruxton Helicopters

EC120 G-FEDA has emerged from paintshop in new scheme, in a nearly exact copy of EC120 G-HVRZ (on 'DA the skids are painted blue rather than grey). R22 G-TINK did crew ferry flight from Walton Wood & G-FEDA will returned to Liverpool late afternoon after re-assembly.


On the Aeromaritime ramp were R44's G-CECX & G-GRWW, plus R22 G-BVGS is still present, so will make enquiries as to why it's away from it's home base in Kent for so long.

Heard on Thruxton radio were Bell 407 N120HH outbound to Manor House Hotel nr Swanage for lunch and AS355 "PremiAir 11" inbound for fuel after dropping pax at a p.site "5 miles north of Thruxton" which puts it somewhere about the village of Upper Chute, returned to that site after fuelling. Also heard was EC120 G-DEVL returning to it's base of Compton Abbas after being at Denham for a few days.