Bell 206 G-BNYD visits

Visitor today was B206B3 G-BNYD which brought in pilot for flight test of new Bell 505 G-IDFE.

G-HKCC now wears "FARER" titles.

FARER appear to be a UK watch brand, not quite sure of the link between helicopter and brand yet.

Sunny day brings out a few visitors....

On the field today were Bell 407 G-COGS, R66 G-HKCC, Cabri G2 G-OCDO and R44 G-EEZR.

Bell 206B G-BXKL

On the field today was Bell 206B G-BXKL, owned by Swatton Aviation Ltd. of Andover, and operated at on the Heli Air AOC.

New Bell 505 G-IDFE arrived from Soton docks in a container yesterday for engineering completion at Heliwork, it should be flying next week.

In the paintshop are Cabri G2 G-OGTC (ex G-VVBH) which will be painted in a spectacular red & white scheme, AS355F2 G-BSTE which is now all grey and Irish based Bell 206L N720B which will also emerge in a grey scheme in due course.

R22B G-CCVU

On the field this morning doing a compass swing was R22B G-CCVU (3600)

M-REEM departs after paint

AS355NP M-REEM (5749) ex I-ERPI departed today back to Oxford for engineering completion.

The old AS355F1 G-REEM (5175) was registered to classic sporting car dealer Duncan Hamilton & Co. Ltd. at an address near Basingstoke on 22/07, so that looks to have been disposed of quickly.

G-REEM was subsequently cancelled to Australia on 26/07.

A few notable (but sadly not photographed) arrivals

Of note recently have been some quite interesting arrivals across the airfield both by road and by air....

AS355NP M-REEM (5749) ex I-ERPI arrived in late June for repaint into the standard Kingdom green and white scheme. It should depart next week back to Oxford for engineering completion, it replaces the ageing AS355F-1 G-REEM for Heliking.

Bell 206L-1 N720B (45452) normally based in Eire has also come in for paint.

Bell 407 G-DCDB (53137) again, normally based in Eire arrived at lunchtime on Friday 12/07 by air and was rolled into the Heliwork hangar, I think for a sales survey.

R22B G-TINK (0937) flew in on 08/07 and is now at Edmondson's for paint, it should roll out next week in the standard red & white R22BII scheme for Heli-Mech Ltd.

Yellow R44II for IoM

R44II G-LVIE (11159) has been repainted all yellow with "Yellow Helicopters" titles. It should be based on the Isle of Man in due course.

R44II G-MEEP has also been transformed and now wears a very nice black & red scheme.

AS350 G-IANW becomes G-HAZZ

AS350B3 G-HAZZ departed Thruxton by road this morning, back to A2B at Shoreham I think for engineering completion.

San Marino H145 visitor

Nice visitor in for a 2nd time this week, H145 T7-NKA (20219) in from Staverton, out to Bournemouth then onto south of France for op's on a super yacht I think.

G-DCSI in new scheme

R44 G-DCSI after paint looking like new!

G-BKEW on the pad

B206B G-BKEW out on the pad at Heliwork today.

Bell 505 G-JRXI on field

Always nice to see new types on the field.

Bell 505 G-JRXI with Heliwork.

A return visitor Bell 407 G-JGXP

G-JGXP came in from the north around late morning and it left en route to Le Touquet & subsequently has routed to Siegerland and is bound for Prague.

A busy place

EC135 G-OPAH ground running, minus rotors.

R44 G-NELS departed by air back to Leeds after paint.

AS350 G-WHST arrived on low loader.

R22B G-CCVU departed back to home base after maintenance at Heliwork.

R44 G-CDCV did a navex into the field, I think from Gloucester.

Bell 407 back for maintenance

2018 Bell 407 G-JGXP (54727) is at Heliwork for a bit of maintenance.

Nice to see the type back on the field.

The dark clouds behind look a little ominous weather wise......

EC145 inbound from France

M-ONDE EC145-C2 (9052) was tracked on FR24 & other flight trackers inbound to Thruxton 24/10.

Note : photo taken from the car park.

MD600 visits

MD600 N4T (RN073) coming into land on the dispersal at Heliwork this morning.

In from Sywell for a spot of maintenance, it returned back to Northamptonshire around lunchtime.

Interesting visitor - S76C

Interesting visitor on a murky day - S76C N707DS (760471) ex D-HUGO.

It departed early on the 17th by road to Soton docks for onward shipment to US.

R44 G-EWAD training

R44II G-EWAD (12296) was being used at Heli Air yesterday for training.