Great to see the pics of the old S61's again. I was at Redhill at the time of the Elivie take-over. What was to become G-AZNE was flown into Redhill by Alistair Gordon and I think Ken Bradley. It spent some time there before departing with Davy Parker and co to Great Yarmouth where it worked for some months before coming up to Aberdeen. So it was the first S61 to operate in the UK followed by G-AZDC after the rebuild which I was on with John Gordon Staples. It came up to Aberdeen in early 1972.
The other machines taken in from Italy were two 214's and two 206's.
One of the 214's was flown up to Liverpool and we put it in a few crates and it was shipped to Peru. I think Ernie Patrick was one of the engineers that went out with it.