BaldEagle: Welcome aboard!
We have an unoffical ex-'Alan Manners' club consisting of the following members of PPRuNe:
Andy Healey
ExDesigner
Geoffersincornwall
LAS1997
NJT
TRC
VFR440
So .. its great to have you with us.
Used to lob into Fairoaks from time-to-time during the years you were at AMH and though you probably wouldn't remember me you may remember my godfather, Lt. Col. Bob Smith, ex-Managing Director of Ferranti Helicopters.
One of the last aircraft Ferranti ordered through Mann's was on behalf of their client, International Messengers of Sunbury, an AB206 III, G-OIML which was delivered at the end of 1978. You may recall her passing through the 'Mannstead' as she wore Ferranti's Dijon yellow colours and was the first Agusta-built 206 III in the UK (to the best of my knowledge).
Please do post as many photos as you possibly can of your time at Fairoaks and, just as importantly, divulge all the terrible (but necessary)
stories about that great 'cacophony' of pilots and mechanics who were once known as Alan Mann Helicopters!
A youthful Savoia with Agusta 109A G-HWBK at the Mannstead in 1982
ps: There is a separate thread on the AAC 109's here.