The "Helicopter Club of Great Britain" organised a "fly in"to Birmingham Airport on Tuesday 4 September 2012
in conjunction with a visit to Land Rover in Solihull....
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.... a total of 10 helicopters arrived - there were a few no showsdue to poor weather/fog in the south east - and these parked....
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.... in two rows on Elmdon Stand 506 and the adjacentgrass area - in order of arrival the following visited....
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Bell Longranger III G-ODCC which arrived on Monday
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Eurocopter Squirrel G-WHAM which also arrived on Monday
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Eurocopter Squirrel G-WHST
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Enstrom 280C Turbo Shark G-OTHE.
Eurocopter EC120B Colibri G-ZZOE.
Alouette II HA-PPC which was once XP967 with the Army Air Corps.
Robinson R22 G-TATO.
Robinson R44 G-WALI.
Robinson R44 G-WEGO.
Robinson R66 N66UK.
The Helicopter Club members were ferried to/from the nearbyLand Rover plant by a fleet of Range Rovers....
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.... returning to the airport of a mass departure shortly before 1700
A big well done to Richard, Chris and everyone at BirminghamAirport and Eurojet for a well organised and safe fly in!
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Tuesday 3 September 2012