Marseille-Provence (LFML/MRS) - 2009 MIL

[Michiel]

LOG 23rd of March 2009

Sec. Civile

Be-200 F-ZBFK / 96
Be-200 F-ZBMB / 97
Be-200 F-ZBFJ / 98

CL-415 F-ZBFN / 33
CL-415 F-ZBFY / 35
CL-415 F-ZBEG / 39
CL-415 F-ZBMF / 45

S-2 Firecat F-ZBAZ / T01
S-2 Firecat F-ZBEY / T07
S-2 Firecat F-ZBEW / T11
S-2 Firecat F-ZBAP / T12
S-2 Firecat F-ZBEH / T20
S-2 Firecat F-ZBAA / T22
S-2 Firecat F-ZBMA / T24

DHC-8-Q402MR F-ZBMC / 73
DHC-8-Q402MR F-ZBMD / 74

EC-145 F-ZBQC

At Eurocopter
AS.532 F-ZVLP / 711 Bulgarian A.F.
AS.532 F-ZVLG / 712 Bulgarian A.F.
AS.332F1 F-ZKCB / 725 Royal Saudi Navy (7225)
AS.532 F-ZVLQ / H-200 Ejercito de Chile
AS.532 F-ZVLC / H-282 Ejercito de Chile
EC.725 F-WJXM / A40-HE Oman
EC.225/725 F-WJXX Primer c/s

NH.90 F-ZWTO France Navy
NH.90 F-ZWTK / 42 Swedish A.F.
NH.90 F-ZWTG Swedish A.F.
NH.90 F-ZWTH Drab green c/s Air Force ??
NH.90 In hangar with Greek roundel on front above cockpit

Tigre F-ZWBD / BHS ALAT
Tigre Primer c/s no serial
Tigre Eurocopter test frame (1 colour)

EC-155 F-WMXD Eurocopter
EC-155 F-WWOR Primer c/s (or F-WWQR)

EC-120 F-WWPJ
EC-120 F-WWXS c/n 473? probaly 8
EC-120 F-WGYC Silver c/s

AS.350B F-WWPM / GN928 Gendarmeria Argentina
AS.350B Drab green c/s in hangar
AS.350 F-WWPA White c/s Swiss flag in tail
AS.350 F-WWPE Grey c/s
AS.350 F-WJXH Red c/s
AS.350B F-WWPN / I-HONY c/n 4636
AS.350 F-WWXG
AS.350 F-WJXC / F-GZEN
AS.355 F-MMCD
AS.355 F-WWXB

Others
Be-1900 F-GLNE France roundel
EC-135T-1 F-GSMB SAMU 13

Any additions are welcome.

Regards,

Michiel

[Michiel]

LOG 25th of March 2009

At Eurocopter
AS.532 F-ZVLP / 711 Bulgarian A.F.
AS.532 F-ZVLG / 712 Bulgarian A.F.
AS.332F1 F-ZKCB / 725 Royal Saudi Navy (7225)
AS.532 F-ZVLQ / H-200 Ejercito de Chile
EC.725 F-WJXM / A40-HE Oman
EC.225 F-WWOZ / VN-8618 Vietnam
EC.225/725 F-WJXX primer c/s (GBL015 on paper behind cockpit)
EC.725 F-WMXA Expirmental titles Grey c/s
EC.225 D2-EWO Angola
AS.332B F-ZWCJ / KAF-545 Kuwait A.F.

NH.90 F-ZWTO France Navy
NH.90 F-ZWTK / 42 Swedish A.F.
NH.90 F-ZWTL / 44 Swedish A.F.
NH.90 F-ZWTG Swedish A.F.
NH.90 F-ZWTZ / 621 Oman A.F.
NH.90 F-ZWTR / 622 Oman A.F. (1154 on paper behind window)

NH.90 In hangar with Greek roundel on front above cockpit

Tigre Eurocopter test frame (1 colour)

EC-155 F-WMXD Eurocopter
EC-155 F-WWOL
EC-155 F-WWOK
EC-155 light sand camo c/s was brought inside a german trailer

EC-135 german flag and in 3 colours green

EC-120 F-WWXS
EC-120 F-WWPL

AS.350 F-WWPA
AS.350 F-WJXH red c/s
AS.350 F-WJXC / F-GZEN
AS.350 F-WWPE Dark Silver c/s
AS.350 F-WWXG Primer c/s
AS.355 F-WWXD c/n 5777

Plus a lot of stored AS.350/AS.355/EC120/EC155 in primer and without serial

Visiting
TBM-700 136/ABR

Regards,

Michiel

[GUINNESS_EIN]

LOG 23rd of March 2009

Sec. Civile

Be-200 F-ZBFK / 96
Be-200 F-ZBMB / 97
Be-200 F-ZBFJ / 98

Hi Michiel,

Great log !! Where are the codes on the Be-200's noted (on the nose / tail) ? I saw the Beeches many times before at MRS but I never actually the codes painted on the a/c.

[remco n'gein]

codes on the nose wheel door

groet remco

[EvD]

Hi Michiel,

Very productive log!

RU sure about Chilean army H-200? In September last year H-280/F-ZVLQ was seen together with H-281/F-ZVLR.

cheers,
Erwin van Dijkman

[Michiel]

Hi Erwin,

Thanks for your reply and yes Marseille was very productive indead.

The Chileans Pumas were read by myself and Remco. I also have photoproof (sorry not high quality).
It seems Eurocopter is changing al lot with the civil regs. For example: I saw the 621 (F-ZWTZ) NH.90 of Oman last year also but with civil reg. F-ZV?? (if I remeber LQ or LH).
Also the 622 of Oman is according Scramble database seen as the F-ZWTZ with was now the 621.
Also this 622 was having number 1154 on the paper behind the window, maybe part of the c/n?
I noticed this before with the A40-004 MRH-90 of the Aussie, this one had 107 on the paper and his c/n is 1107.

But any additions are welcom ofcourse.

Regards,

Michiel

[GUINNESS_EIN]

codes on the nose wheel door

Perfect, thx !

[EvD]

Marseille LFML Monday 8 June (some on Sunday 7 June)

F-..PN AS332 white w/ rd cheat line, stickers, hangared
H283 AS532 Chilean Army, fcs, towed from other side
F-WJXM/ A4O-HE EC225LP Oman AF, fcs, flew
F-ZVLG/712 AS532AL Bulgarian AF, fcs, parked between hangars

F-WGYL AS350 primer, towed
F-WMXX AS350 sv, flew
F-WWPK AS350 primer, stored, c/n4756
F-WWPP AS350B3 burgundy/gold, outside, flew, c/n4783
F-WWXI AS350B3 wh/bl ‘Policia’ titles, outside, flew, c/n4778
F-WWXR AS350B3? primer, flew, c/n4784
F-ZBFD AS350B1 SecCiv, flew
… AS350B2 primer, towed, c/n..46 (so 4746?)
… AS350 gn, demo for Indian AF contract
F-ZKBT/786404 AS550C3 Pak Army, fcs, outside c/n4431
… AS550 Pak Army, fcs, stored outside between fll hangars

… AS355 primer, stored outside c/n5778 or 5779
F-WWXN/EW-309BH AS355NP sv/rd/gn Belarus, c/n5773

F-WJXG AS365N3 primer, flew, c/n6877 (N3 IEH 015)
F-WMXF AS365 sv, German flag, hangared
… AS365 primer, white radome under nose, hangared
F-WWOA AS365N4 sv/bl, flew, c/n6844 (N4 REV 001)
F-WWOU AS365 primer, towed
F-WWOJ AS365N3 primer, towed to other side, c/n6873


F-WWYK EC120 primer, towed
F-WGYO EC120 wh/red, HeliDax?, stored outside
F-WWPC EC120 primer, stored outside
F-WWPI EC120 wh/rd, HeliDax?, engine runs, flew

F-WGYC EC130 primer, stored outside
F-WXJD EC130 primer, stored outside

(F-M)JBC EC145 Gendarmerie, flew 7/6
F-ZBQC EC145B SecCiv, outside

F-ZKBM/ET-706 EC665 FAMET, fcs, towed outside
F-ZVLJ EC665 Eurocopter, towed outside
(HA.28-07?) EC665 FAMET, sandy primer, prototype HAD?, hangared
F-ZWBC EC665 ALAT, fcs, towed
F-ZWPN EC665 ALAT, flew but without testreg, c/n2016

F-ZWTG NH90 Flygvapnet, SAAB TMS inside, towed outside
F-ZWTH NH90 Greek AF, gn, flew
F-ZWTO NH90 Aeronavale prototype, towed outside
F-ZWTU NH90 NZ AF, primer, towed, c/n1177
… NH90 sandy primer, hangared

Plus EMB312F 501/312-UT and …/312-JO flying across

Outside storage in front of and between flight line hangars held about 30 helicopters, mostly rotorless in primer. Hard to make out every single one, and the distinction between EC120 and EC130 may be wrong (will be most of the time )
A rough indication as seen from the other side (crash gate 28), right to left (east to west) on Sunday evening:

Between hangars:
… SA365 primer
… AS350 sv, covers (maybe the F-WMXX that flew?)
… AS550 Pak Army, fcs, covers
… EC120 burgundy red, covered
… EC120 dark blue, covered

On ramp:
2 EC130, 1 EC120, 1 AS355 (some appear in list above)

Behind that:

… EC120 primer
… EC120 primer
… EC120 sv
… AS355 primer, grey tail
… EC120 primer
… AS355 primer, grey tail
… EC120 primer

Next to that on ramp:
2 AS350 (these were burgundy red F-WWPP and white/blue F-WWXI)
… AS350 primer, parked between the two above

Next to that on ramp:
… EC120 primer
… EC120 primer
… AS350 primer
… AS365 primer

Behind that nose on in front of last hangars:
8 (later 10?) AS350 some blocked from view, rotorless primer
… AS365 primer
I think we got the latter two in the list above while being towed around, they were near the corner.

Hope this helps, any corrections and amendments welcome obviously !!

Erwin

[YOXA]

Spent one hour here

A4O-HF EC225LP no civil regi Oman
???? NH90 Oman (in full color no regi with flag in tail)
9M-SPF/F-WJXL Super Puma ??

F-ZVLG/712 Bulgaar
F-. . RC/ ET-. . . Puma Spain
F-ZWBD Dauphin "eurocopter"
ET-703/8 F-ZKBB Tigre Spain
F-. . . A Tigre ALAT
F-WJXZ Puma
F-WIPZ Fennec

René

[pvdk]

Noted on monday the 6th
726 AS332M1 Saudi Navy, 45 NH-90 Swedish Army, F-ZWTH NH-90 prototype, AS532 FAV marked with a large white 9 on doors, Dauphin
F-WMYI in primer. 31005 EC-120 Chineese Police.

Visitor ZH-885 Hercules C5

Anyone more info on Venezuelan Puma ?

Regards

PvdK

[Trueno]

Noted on monday the 6th
AS532 FAV marked with a large white 9 on doors.

Hi there,

Do you have more specific details? Camouflage? Titles and exact model? There are at least three FAV Cougars under overhaul at Eurocopter Marseille, but rumours are that more Cougars have been ordered by Venezuela. Hope to hear some more,

saludos.

Trueno

[pvdk]

Seems to be a standard camouflage with FAV title on aft fuselage, red stripe on fin and Venezuelan flag on tail boom. Most probably the test reg is F-ZWCE.
Regards
PvdK

[Trueno]

Seems to be a standard camouflage with FAV title on aft fuselage, red stripe on fin and Venezuelan flag on tail boom. Most probably the test reg is F-ZWCE.
Regards
PvdK

Many thanks PvdK, I guess no picture available? The thing is that at Eurocopter are three FAV AS.332B Super Puma's ... while you mentioned a AS.532! So perhaps one new built for Venezuela?

Keep in touch, thanks again.

Saludos

[Sjoerd]

The Venezualan Puma's are here for updates. No new ones I am afraid. Here's the one I saw Oct-8th at Marseille (heavilly cropped, so sorry for the quality). You can see the "9" you described is some sort of squadron marking I guess.

A full log will follow as several visits were paid over the last week.

AS.332B1 5110/F-ZKCD Grupo 10:


Cheers,

[Sjoerd]

As promised, here the log for 6,8, and 9 October:

6 October 2009 Marseille-Provence

1x AS.350/355/550/555 Policia (blue/white
F-OKFF AS.350/355/550/555 nm (grey, next to Policia AS.350/355/550/555)
6x AS.350/355/550/555 nm (grey, no serials applied)
712/F-ZVLG AS.532AL 24.VAB/Eurocopter
(HT27-18)/ET-666/F-ZVRC AS.532UL FAMET/Eurocopter
2028/9?/F-ZKBA EC.665HAP ALAT/Eurocopter
H-281 or 284 EC.725 FACh/Eurocopter
(620)/F-ZVLH NH.90TTH Oman AF/Eurocopter
31/F-ZBFP CL.415 Sec. Civile
32/F-ZBFS CL.415 Sec. Civile
33/F-ZBFN CL.415 Sec. Civile
35/F-ZBFY CL.415 Sec. Civile
38/F-ZBFW CL.415 Sec. Civile
39/F-ZBEG CL.415 Sec. Civile
44/(F-ZBME) CL.415 Sec. Civile
45/(F-ZBMF) CL.415 Sec. Civile
73/F-ZBMC DHC-8-400MR Sec. Civile
74/F-ZBMD DHC-8-400MR Sec. Civile
T01/F-ZBAZ S-2T Sec. Civile
T07/F-ZBEY S-2T Sec. Civile
T12/(F-ZBAP) S-2T Sec. Civile
T15/F-ZBET S-2T Sec. Civile
T20/F-ZBEH S-2T Sec. Civile
T22/(F-ZBAA) S-2T Sec. Civile
T23/F-ZBCZ S-2T Sec. Civile
T24/F-ZBMA S-2T Sec. Civile

The FA Chile Cougar/Caracal was a nice surprise to me. Unfortunately the photo turned out somewhat blurry and the last digit could not be confirmed. Furthermore there were a lot of Fennecs/Ecureuils stored on the ramp which escaped identification as there were simply now serials allocated to them. About seven of them were all painted in grey c/s and could be destined for the military, but I’m not certain of that.

8 October 2009 Marseille-Provence

5110/F-ZKCD AS.332B1 FAV/Grupo 10/Eurocopter
HT.27-19/ET-667/F-ZWRH AS.532UL FAMET/Eurocopter
D-HEGL AS.532UL Bundespolizei/Eurocopter
.../F-WWXE AS.350/355/550/555 nm/Eurocopter (grey)
31005/F-Z... EC.120B Chinese Police
.../F-WWOV EC.155/AS.565SA? FN?/Eurocopter mkd as ‘’Navette2’’
.../F-WJXL EC.725? .../Eurocopter mkd as ‘’HL0021’’
HA.28-03/ET-703/F-ZKBB EC.665HAP FAMET/Eurocopter
HA.28-06/ET-706/F-ZKBM EC.665HAP FAMET/Eurocopter
20../BHT/F-ZKBE EC.665HAP 5 RHC/Eurocopter
2030/F-ZKBF EC.665HAP ALAT/Eurocopter
.../F-ZWBB NH.90TTH ...../Eurocopter
.../F-ZWTG NH.90TTH/HKP.14A RSwedAF/Eurocopter
.../F-ZWTH NH.90TTH Hellenic Army/Eurocopter
.../F-ZWTU NH.90TTH RNZLAF/Eurocopter
(608)/F-ZBER Ce.404 ex Douanes Francaises, stored

Locals:
97/F-ZBMB Be.200 Sec. Civile
(9059)/F-ZBQC EC.145 Sec. Civile
36/)F-ZBEO) CL.415 Sec. Civile
37/F-ZBFV CL.415 Sec. Civile
42/F-ZBEU CL.415 Sec. Civile

At the Securite Civile end a few additions were found compared to the log two days ago. A few additional Tigres were pulled out of their hangars on the 9th and so was a recently modified Dauphin2 helicopter.

9 October 2009 Marseille-Provence

Visitor:
406 AN-26 89.VSD

(PS1)/F-ZVLJ EC.665HAP ALAT?/Eurocopter
20../F-ZKBI EC.665HAP ALAT/Eurocopter
20../F-ZKBO EC.665HAP ALAT/Eurocopter
505/F-ZKCK AS.565MA 36F/Eurocopter

I hope this is of some help and I hope someone can help me out with the blanks!?!

Cheers,