The Rotary Nostalgia Thread

[Earl of Rochester]

There are very few images available online of G-LRII, in fact the only two I could find were, 1) via NA3T at RGS Group of Companies ? G-LRII | TransportPhotos.com and which needs a scan request and 2) via MAR at Military Aviation Review available as a purchase at a cost of £1!

The aircraft's history seems to have been:

May 1979: Delivered to CSE
August 1979: Deliveed to Castle Air
1986: Carroll Industries/Aircraft
1991: Air Hanson (prior to re-sale back to the US)

I'm assuming that Carroll Industries/Aircraft (London and Farnborough) must have been the holding company for Tal-Air?

Either way, LRII must have been one of the first LongRangers in the country preceeded from what I can tell by G-BFAL which, I think, was the very first.

LRII did have a sister ship of sorts, an L3 named G-LIII:



Bell 206L3 G-LIII seen at Air Hanson's maintenance hangar at Brooklands, 30th March 1983. Paco's G-JLBI (Alton Towers) Long Ranger in the background