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5th Jan 2014, 09:39

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Dave Ed

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Somalia

Mogadishu, Somalia

In 1994 Bristows were contracted to supply five Bell 212s to the United Nations in support of peace keeping duties in Somalia. The aircraft were based at Mogadishu.
Two of them were ferried in from Singapore in an Illyushin 76 and three came from U.K. on board Belfasts. From the look of the registrations the Bells had seen previous service in Trinidad and Indonesia.

The pictures below show the ex-Singapore machines being off-loaded as well as the re-mantling area and crew.

The contract was awarded at fairly short notice which meant that the avionic mods to meet the aircraft specification requirement had to be carried out on-site.

The pictures below show the Bell flight line, the 5 star gourmet restaurant, the early morning "tank" wake-up call and finally J.D. posing in the only flak-jacket!

......and a few people pics....

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