Originally Posted by
RotaryJ
What's going on here then... Will G-POLU be brought back into active service?
I did a little digging on this as I've always had an interest in police aviation, despite not having the experience or credentials of others on the forum here that have worked in the field.
It turns out G-POLU has been painted back into full NPAS colours with a photo dating as far back as July, and searching for its Mode S code on ADSBexchange (40472C) returns test flight activity out of oxford as recent as the 27th of September (Two days ago at time of writing)
Ideally I'd like to have links to both the image and the track on ADSBexchange but unfortunately haven't reached the 8 post threshold to do this.
Looking forward to seeing it deployed, whenever it's ready. I did note that it was previously registered as G-XMII before being leased to the Norwegian Police and then used as a test bed by Airbus, built all the way back in 2002 so a similar aged aircraft to the rest of the rotary fleet.