Hi there,
As you all probably know, the German Navy had it's Sea Lynx Mk.88 helicopters rebuilt and upgraded during the late nineties to the current Super Lynx Mk.88A version. This meant that a completely new airframe was used to rebuilt the helicopters. This resulted in disposing their former hulls (basically an emptied airframe) as these were no longer required and I read somewhere that all these were subsequently disposed off and/or put in storage with Westland (the contractor for the rebuild).
Not so long ago I visited Kassel-Calden airport and there I noted a former hull being preserved with the local Eurocopter factory and was ID'ed as 83+13. This has also been taken up in the Scramble database. Even more recently I had a visit at Nordholz and discovered an older Lynx being used as a ground instruction aircraft. Identification failed since it caried a fake serial (83+54) and c/n's did not help either. A total of three were found (540, 551 and 582) as well as a written serial (83+07) in the cockpit. See also; http://www.scramble.nl/forum/viewtopic. ... 88#p275088" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Only just now I found an interesting place http://maps.google.de/maps?t=k&q=53.216 ... 00861&z=20" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; which shows a total of nine hulls in the village of Rekum at some kind of defence storage facility. Since I don't know how old this image is does anyone know if these are still there? This could mean that most hulls have survived and are still in Germany since a total of 15 have been rebuilt.
Hopefully someone can shed some light on this! Also, if someone could help me ID the Lynx at Nordholz this would be much appreciated!
Cheers,