Ah yes but it wouldn't take long to set up each base, all you need is an oxy bottle and regulator or a compressor, get your min pressures and the engines will do the rest. They were designed to be used in remote third world countries where access to things like hydralic fluid at remote airstrips would be a problem (like Hokitika
).
The sad thing is that the very last F27C built is still languishing at Woodbourne because of no paperwork (VT-NED) if it can't be sold to an air force somewhere where paperwork is not as important then it will shortly be parted out
It is a late 1985 model with a very good set of avionics in it (Flight director, good A/P, GPS etc).
All the flight manuals are available, I am sure BG would run off a copy for Air New Zealand
after all they are the same! And there is a sim available in Florida for a $1 (a US one)
