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Old 22nd Nov 2011, 20:15
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Art of flight
 
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Chopper,

What is in the public domain is that the Norfolk aircraft is no more, Suffolk AOU has amalgamated with Norfolk ASU and the ex-Norfolk ASU observers now crew the soon to be ex-Suffolk 135P2+ along with pilots and observers (police and civilian) from the Eastern counties consortium (Suffolk/Essex/Cambridgeshire) The ex-Suffolk aircraft is to move to a new NPAS base at RAF Honington sometime in the future to better serve the expanded area of operations which includes Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, and in preparation has new owners stickers on the doors using the first 3 letters of the former owners and the last 4 letters of the new partners, 'SUFFOLK'. If not actually saving money with the new stickers they were at least a no-cost option. The Essex 135 is not moving to Honington and already has Kent stickers (3 years old now) on it so again whilst not saving money, not spending any either!
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