EX-IAC Aircraft Across The World

[GoneToTheCanner]

Yes. Fish and Bird counts. Usually with Dept of Ag experts on board with cameras and notebooks (the paper kind). One aircraft was lost doing this.

[GoneToTheCanner]

It's a shame that they didnt sell off the Cessnas and just keep one. They are making good money and these were maintained like cut glass.

[Rhodes]

A picture of the former Air Corps Puma helicopter taken in 2020 after it received a fresh coat of paint.
It was still being used as a military test aircraft and I believe it was retired from service in September.

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[na grohmiti]

Sponsons appear bigger when they paint them bright orange. Looks so different without the weather radar. If we had kept it in 82, it would be paid for by now...

[GoneToTheCanner]

We would have paid for it in a few years and it would have served us so well. Like the dropping of the King Airs,a very bad decision for small money.

[na grohmiti]

I feel that the Kingairs had to go purely to justify the Casas. While the Kingair continued to fly you would always have some beancounter in Newbridge asking "why do you need the Casa for MPA when the old MPA are still working?"

[DeV]

I feel that the Kingairs had to go purely to justify the Casas. While the Kingair continued to fly you would always have some beancounter in Newbridge asking "why do you need the Casa for MPA when the old MPA are still working?"

Final King Air was used for MATS, air ambulance and multi engine training

CASA MARPATs came into service in 1994, the last SKA wasn’t retired until 2009

[na grohmiti]

Final King Air was used for MATS, air ambulance and multi engine training

CASA MARPATs came into service in 1994, the last SKA wasn’t retired until 2009

Don't think that one (240?) ever did Maritime patrol, and it arrived 3 years after the other 2.

[Rhodes]

Former Air Corps Alouette 196.

[Flamingo]

It looks well cared for.

[na grohmiti]

Former Air Corps Alouette 196.

Not that one. Thats belonged to Flight for Life since the 1980s.
196 is s/n 1153. The rest were 1151, 1194, 1973(went swimming), 1983, 1984, 2116 & 2122

[Spark23]

Final King Air was used for MATS, air ambulance and multi engine training

CASA MARPATs came into service in 1994, the last SKA wasn’t retired until 2009

Kings Airs could have been kept for Multi Engine training, vip, air ambulance, light transport, theyd still prob be flying now with hours spread between all three.

[Rhodes]

Not that one. Thats belonged to Flight for Life since the 1980s.
196 is s/n 1153. The rest were 1151, 1194, 1973(went swimming), 1983, 1984, 2116 & 2122

It is the former Air Corps 196, it's just painted to be a replica of a Flight for Life helicopter.
I covered its journey before.

A recent picture of Alouettes 196 and 197 still in storage with Airbus in France. Airbus has now donated 196 to a group in the US that want to preserve an Alouette III in an air ambulance configuration for display, they are looking to raise $19,000 to ship it to the US and refurbished.

Alouette 196 has now been shipped to the US where it will be refurbished and rebuilt in an air ambulance configuration.

Alouette 196 with its new paint job.

[na grohmiti]

I'm not happy about that at all.

[GoneToTheCanner]

The DoD will not allow the outgoing aircraft, regardless of size, shape or function to be sold into Ireland, purely for fear of litigation. That said, the Marchettis have mostly ended up in the US, as did the G.IV and the Dauphins had a much publicised resurrection in Chile. It is a real shame that the Cessnas were not sold to the market, as there is a strong demand for Cessna 172s. Quite why it's easier for foreign museums to get our former helicopters escapes me.