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Old 26th Jan 2011, 15:01
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Chopper69
 
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I seem to recall a flying example of this aircraft arriving in the UK from New Zealand some years ago, does anyone know what happened to it on arrival UK?

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I was fortunate to be the Traffic Officer that met what became G-BISU on it's arrival in STN via many tech stops en route from NZ. I can't remember the ZK reg at the time, but it was quite a unique aircraft to deal with and looked pretty tired, lots of oil over the cowlings, etc. I may still have some photos somewhere and as was also quoted, it was painted silver and went into service with Instone, who at that time specialised in mainly transporting horses. Jeremy and Giles I believe were the names of the brothers that ran the Company, but I may be very wrong on that, it was very many years ago.
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