Thanks for the log! A few questions:
-what date did you visit?
-was the dumped AB.212 the one lying on its side next to the two B.205s and the B.206?
-can you tell which were the nine stored Chinooks parked all together near the preserved AB.47?
Many thanks in advance!
We also visited Viterbo, though on Monday 26th. The log will follow shortly as I also have some things to sort out.
Did anyone read the following on the airfield side?
1x NH.500E 208Gr (next to AB412 hangar)
1x NH.90 (in front of AB.412 hangar)
1x EH.101 MMI (arr/dep. between 11:30-12:15hrs)
1x AB.205 (behind the NH.500E, olive drap/low viz c/s)
Could the AB.205 have been E.I.340 from Melchior's log?
Thanks for the log! A few questions:
-what date did you visit?
-was the dumped AB.212 the one lying on its side next to the two B.205s and the B.206?
-can you tell which were the nine stored Chinooks parked all together near the preserved AB.47?
Many thanks in advance!
Okay..I am not Melchior, but we (Cristian, Maurits, Rene and I) had a visit with them.
The visit was on Friday morning from 0900lt untill 1200lt
The dumped one lying on its side was indeed MM81119/EI-403.
The nine stored CH-47's were (from the AB47 till end..)
MM80842/EI-820
MM80835/EI-813
MM80843/EI-821
(MM80830)/EI-808
(MM81168)/EI-826
(MM80844)/EI-822
(MM80822)/EI-800
MM80828/EI-805
(MM80826)/EI-804
At the South Gate (Airforce one)
F-104G MM6590/3-11
MB326 MM54155/40
North Field:
AB204B MM80322/EI-222 pres at gate
AB.47G MM....... pres. near stored CH-47's
shame did not noticed did one.. don't need it.. but other will..
South Field:
AB204B MM80320/EI-220 pres between gate and flightline
AB206C MM80625/EI-564 pres near flightline
Thanks Sjoerd and Elmar for the info!
That leaves me with only one more question: on Friday afternoon one AB.212 was seen on the main platform to the right of the stored Chinooks (when seen from the aeroclub), parked near another Chinook. Anybody for its serial? This was the only Bell we saw outside on this side of the airbase.
Many thanks in advance!
roel lodder wrote:Did you get the opportunity to make photo's?
Roel
Ofcourse, will follow later.
on Friday afternoon one AB.212 was seen on the main platform to the right of the stored Chinooks (when seen from the aeroclub), parked near another Chinook. Anybody for its serial? This was the only Bell we saw outside on this side of the airbase.
During our visit there were two AB412s in front of the hangar, more in direction to the Do228 hangar (as seen from the aeroclub).
Next to the Chinook was a stored AB412 equiped with a special radar, this was the only bell next to the chinooks and parked with the nose facing the aeroclub:
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MM80828 should be EI-806, we read 8.6 from outside. There are 8 CH-47s in a stored-line and these are all without rotors. EI-804 and EI-829 are parked beside this line with the old camo c/s and still have their rotors. Are these also stored?
Patrick, we read EI-453 on Saturday evening on your designated spot.
There are 8 CH-47s in a stored-line and these are all without rotors. EI-804 and EI-829 are parked beside this line with the old camo c/s and still have their rotors
Actually there are nine! 8 are in a row, but the ninth is a bit backwards of those, in between the others.
Patrick, we read EI-453 on Saturday evening on your designated spot
Actually there are nine! 8 are in a row, but the ninth is a bit backwards of those, in between the others.
Why didn't Crizz report this then? They had a base-visit.
I think you're wrong. There are 8 packed together without rotors, see also Melchior's photo, there's no room here for a ninth. And Crizz told me 804(with rotors) isn't stored which is parked next to this row together with 829(also with rotors).
We also noted 804 in the same section on monday, but I can't remember anymore if it had rotors or not and where it exactly was in line. 829 was not behind the eight stored ones...it had moved to the left in front of a hangar.
It doesn't get any clearer than this. This one is certainly not parked in the row with the 8 Chinooks. Maybe it's stored, I can't tell, allthough it looks like the upperpart of the loading-ramp is missing. By the looks of the Arabic script it has seen service in Iraq/Afghanistan and maybe it's waiting for a space in the maintenance-hangar for some attention. We'll have to wait for another report of it flying again, or not.
