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Old 13th Jul 2018, 18:25
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Ant T
 
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BAS headquarters are in Cambridge, so Duxford is convenient for fitting/testing new science equipment when any of the four Twin Otters are in UK.

Doesn't happen very often now though - the Northern summer maintenance has been done in Canada for almost 20 years now, and the aircraft only come over to Europe for specific projects.

When I started flying with BAS in the mid 90s, the aircraft maintenance was done by Alan Mann at Fairoaks. Over the following decade the Twin Otters and Dash 7 were at times maintained by Anglo-Normandy in Guernsey, CSE at Oxford, and then Field Aviation in Calgary (and Toronto occasionally for the Dash 7).

At the moment the Twin Otters are looked after by Rocky Mountain Aircraft in Springbank, just west of Calgary, and I think the Dash 7 is maintained by Voyageur in North Bay, Ontario.

A few weeks ago we had a get-together at Duxford to celebrate 50 years of Twin Otter operations by British Antarctic Survey, with two of the aircraft there.

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