Another Bristow machine in faraway places.
Super Puma on a beach in the Solomon Islands.
Ah the legendary BHK. One of my final tasks at Bristow was to contract out a G-Check on that one. Awarded it under a fixed price to EC Malaysia who had ambitions to set up a 332 heavy maintenance facility. To say they had a steep learning curve and lost their shirt on it would be an understatement ! They ended up having to manufacture a production standard jig and ship out a load of experts from Marignane to remanufacture the entire lower fuselage. It was still in work when I left. It would have been scrapped had we known what we were in for when we started but it ended up being one of the best standard and most capable L's by the time they'd finished it. Strangely enough their ambition never went any further
