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Old 1st Mar 2011, 16:20
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noooby
 
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Ahhh HSP pre Murupara days.
That's probably Marty in the drivers seat after we ripped out all the military equipment to lighten the old girl up.
Beautiful airframe, fresh off an overhaul in the US to go back into military service, but was mistakenly sold to Marty, who brought it out to NZ to set up a business in Tauranga.
Machine then sold to Murupara.
Was sad to see it go from Tauranga as it was the tidiest UH-1's I'd ever seen, and that included the RNZAF machines!
As an aside..... Marty told me that HSP was one of the Hueys that was modified with retractable skids for some sort of radar work before being modded back to standard config. There is a photo of it with the skids folded up somewhere.
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