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"Rescue100"

  • 04-05-2011 8:44pm
    #1
    Oscar Bravo
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    Anyone know what aircraft has the call sign "Rescue100". Heard him talking to Shannon today,it was en route to Sligo along with another aircraft with a similar call sign.I was thinking it may of been one of the Sikorsky S-92A's on a visit but hardly two of them.


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  • #2
    Klunk001
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    Stornaway MCA S-92's routed into Sligo I believe, uplifted fuel and then headed west around 350 nm to do a job on behalf of the UK. Second helo probably shadowed providing some sort of top cover .


  • #3
    Oscar Bravo
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    Thank you.solves that!!


  • #4
    Cliff Hanger
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    Some info from a pilot friend of mine on the Sligo CG Helicopter. He got a video of the 92 and posted it on Facebook. Here's the caption he put with it:

    "S-92 from Stornoway at Sligo on a long-range job we didn't have the legs for. A guy with a heart-attack on a ship that was 420NM out last night. The '92 can RV with them approx 250NM out from the SEDCO rig, but we could only go to around 140NM today and a bit slower too. Sligo is planned to get the S-92 whenever UK SAR releases the S-92's it has now."

    Nice link with some info on some call signs in the UK

    http://www.ukemergencyaviation.co.uk/Coastguard.htm


  • #5
    Klunk001
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    From today's Irish Times

    * The longest rescue mission in a Sikorsky S92 helicopter was carried out by the British coastguard crew at Stornoway, Scotland, over the weekend with the co-operation of the Irish authorities.
    The helicopter crew was tasked to recover a crewman on board a merchant ship, MV Stena Perros.
    The man was suffering from severe chest pains. The S-92, with a doctor on board, refuelled at the Irish Coast Guard base in Sligo and at Blacksod lighthouse during the mission, and the man was transferred to Sligo hospital for treatment.


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