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[Zishelix]

SN 1065 is the only example (as far as I know) of post-production "stretching" of the fuselage... especially because it was produced by Westland...

[Savoia]

The loss of Heliwest's Gazelle I-OLLY was a terrible tragedy.

To make it worse, this sad event suffers from inaccurate summaries which are...

[Savoia]

Just to be clear, are you saying that all stretched Gazelles were manufactured specifically as stretched variants and that stretching was not available...

[Zishelix]

I didn't know for this as the reason of I-OLLY's accident. Terrible indeed.

As far as I know all other "stretched" Gazelles were...

[Savoia]

Because many of the accident sites do not research the background to what they publish and which, as you can see, can have disappointing results. ...

[Zishelix]

Strange, I wasn't able to recall the helicopter's registration when stop looking

[Zishelix]

By the way, a similar thread about Gazelle helicopters (North American machines mostly) here

[Savoia]

Seeing as we mentioned the stretched Gaz one wonders why they didn't make all of the civilian models this way given the greater comfort for rear seat...

[Zishelix]

I suppose, unlike some Texans, not all of the customers asked for a stretched model!

Here you are, this is what I have about those still...

[Savoia]

Grazie mille!

I think I can say straight-off from a brief glance at the records that G-BKLS is no longer airworthy. Otherwise it looks as...

[Zishelix]

Oops, you're right... G-BKLS CofReg was cancelled in August 1992 as w/o (at TT 2348). She's in Gatwick Aviation Museum collection (marked as G-TURP) since...

[Savoia]

And a little further investigation reveals that the write-off you refer to occurred when she was G-TURP in another episode of the Gaz's 'tail swing bite'...

[Zishelix]

Correct, she was badly damaged in heavy landing at Stanford-le-Hope that date.

Here she is (in better days) when owned by Lenval Essex Ltd...

[Savoia]

Nice!

Lenval, so the records show, being owned by Kevin Turp!

As mentioned above, the other Gaz my godfather flew besides G-BAGK...

[Zishelix]

One of just several produced "stretched" SA.342Js F-GJGT
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