Sligo Airport open day September 5th

Oscar Bravo

From 12pm to 4pm on Sunday 5th September, Sligo Airport will be hosting a family day with a difference, giving you the opportunity to take a tour of the airport and talk to Airport staff, learn about what goes on behind the scenes, see a fire fighting display, meet Aer Arann captains and crew, see the Sligo Search and Rescue Helicopter up close and meet the Search and Rescue team, talk to Usher Aviation aircraft engineers and see how aircraft are maintained, view the Sligo Aeroclub aircraft and find out about learning to fly!
On the day you will also have a chance to win free local trips with Sligo Aeroclub, who this year are celebrating 35 years of flying at Sligo, and free return tickets with Aer Arann to Dublin.

mickdw

Damn, Im away that weekend. Sounds better than what knock offered a few weeks ago.

Steyr

What MickDW said..

Steyr

OB any pics from Knock?

Oscar Bravo

Hopefully the weather is fairly good on Sunday.a wet Strandhill is not pleasent!

ei1429

True! Was there last weekend for a few hours and it was a bit cold, but i am looking forward to making the trip from Co. Mayo. See ye all there!

Bren

Blade Slapper

Sligo SAR Heli?

Flying in there in a few weeks for a re-fuel, look forward to seeing the place.

Oscar Bravo

Just back from attending the open day-one word- excellent! Sikorskys EI-CXS and EI-CZN were present(CXS on standby,CZN on display).Open to the public to sit in/take photos etc were Cessna 152 EI-BIB,C152 EI-BGJ and C172 EI-SAC along with EI-BBC(Piper Cherokee) and EI-DRO(Tecnam).Doing the aerobatics was G-CFIF(Christen Eagle).G-VAND was flat out all day with parachutes.Also nice too see N260AP(SIAI-Marchetti SF-260) drop in.

Steyr

Blade Slapper wrote: »

Sligo SAR Heli?

Flying in there in a few weeks for a re-fuel, look forward to seeing the place.

Yes there is an IRCG S61N Based at Sligo, Its Rescue 118.

Shannon has Rescue 115.

Waterford has Rescue 117.

Dublin has Rescue 116.

conork93

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Just back from attending the open day-one word- excellent! Sikorsky's EI-CXS and EI-CZN were present(CXS on standby,CZN on display).Open to the public to sit in/take photos etc were Cessna 152 EI-BIB,C152 EI-BGJ and C172 EI-SAC along with EI-BBC(Piper Cherokee) and EI-DRO(Tecnam).Doing the aerobatics was G-CFIF(Christen Eagle).G-VAND was flat out all day with parachutes.Also nice too see N260AP(SIAI-Marchetti SF-260) drop in.

I GOT A TOUR OF EI-CXS ( sitting in the cockpit ) ......sorry im still on a high .....btw if ya want pictures just ask

conork93

check these out ( sorry most of em are sar helicopters ...im a bit of a fan :P )







these are from the tour i got at the end ( from the captain .....btw i just got talking to him ....and because i came all the way from kildare ....he gave me a tour ....so thanks to him ...he was sound )

check out the rest :
(ill upload some more of other aircraft soon )











enjoy

Oscar Bravo

Good stuff,dont suppose you have one of the Chipmunk?? weather did well to hold out,good crowd too.

conork93

here's the rest :





















enjoy guys

ei1429

Right i guess i had better show something off seen as i was there from 10am till sometime after 5:30. The images are watermarked sorry guys, If you know me you will know how to get them.

And sorry there small, its how i store them, Click on the image to view it

Enjoy!

ei1429

xflyer

If you want to see the skydiving that day go to skydiving2007 on youtube and watch the last few videos. Cool music too!

http://www.youtube.com/user/Skydiveireland2007

And this the video of the year so far

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opPIrEuc3VE