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Old 3rd November 2004 | 12:58
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Thud_and_Blunder
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The Royal Brunei Air Force lone example was bought by the Sultan for his father, who'd abdicated to let the 29th member of the dynasty accede. I believe the old boy popped his clogs before the aircraft was actually delivered, though...

It was a total hangar queen for most of my 3 years there, so much so that the RBAirF had to bring Bell over to re-train the pilots as they'd become completely uncurrent. The Bell/ Flight Safety (I forget which...) engineer had plenty of interesting pre-1991 Iraq stories to tell.
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