Spare 902?
Rumour has it that the former Cambridgeshire aircraft had troubles of its own.... a real Friday aircraft .... when serving its original masters. So perhaps not ideal all round. Anyway its nominally a spare to the SE Region 902 so sending it North was probably not an option.
Maybe the original plan was to have the South Yorkshire 902 as the northern spare.....
The question is what will MDHI announce at Heli-Expo this year? If they do not relaunch the 902 next week they may never do it...... then it may be more sensible to gamble on the Las Vegas tables after all.....
