Air North for sale?

[belly tank]

Originally Posted by Chocks Away

Amen, Smiling Monkey... blind Freddy could have told anyone that and it's great that it's finally out in the open.
It wasn't only the Bristow "Fixed Wing" Manager's ineptiude but alot of the office management @ ScareNorth that required "Don't Come Monday" letters!
Sadly, a once great Regional operator is on it's knees and in question.

Nice quick move by Babcock with a couple of fresh looking "whirly-birds" in Karratha, after Bristow packed up two of it's Pumas. What happened there?

Babcock won a longterm contract for Santos supplying 2 x AW139's for offshore operations from YKTA.

[smiling monkey]

Any updates on potential buyers for Air North?

[werbil]

VH-ANF appears to have had it's livery painted over and according to Flight aware is currently enroute to Senai / Jahor Bahru in Malaysia. Anyone got any goss?

[Stationair8]

I believe it is heading off to be scrapped.

[Duck Pilot]

Scrapped? It’s only 15 years old according to the propaganda that I got out of the google machine, maybe off lease or sold?

What kind of hours and cycles would it have?

[wheels_down]

Certainly not flown as hard as some loco’s here, but they are costly to fix in general day to day operations. Virgin and JetBlue walked away due to engineering reasons.

If it’s a case of what I assume is non existent maintenance or just neglect in general then it’s probably cheaper to buy a new one.