PNG-Registered MBB MBB-BK117 B-2 Helicopter P2-TAH Passes Through Gladstone and Mackay Airports - Updated with a Photo!

On Monday 1 July, Papua New Guinea (PNG) registered MBB MBB-BK117 B-2 helicopter P2-TAH was noted passing through Gladstone and Mackay Airports while on a ferry flight North.

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P2-TAH looked to arrive into Gladstone Airport from Redcliffe before it then continued to Mackay Airport and ports North onwards to PNG.  It had flown North from Bankstown via Port Macquarie and Balina / Byron Gateway Airports on Friday 30 June.

It is believed that this chopper has c/n 7504 and previously operated in England for the The East Anglian Air Ambulance Service as G-RESC.

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Anyone with more information?

UPDATE!  P2-TAH has been delivered to Tribal Aurora Helicopters based at Port Moresby.

UPDATE!  Sadly, we have learned that just over two months since after its arrival into PNG, on Friday 13 September, P2-TAH failed to arrive at Tokua Airport while on a flight from Buka Airport.  Wreckage of the helicopter was subsequently located approximately 0.9 nm seaward of the coast about 4 nm south east of Silur Mission.  Of the two persons on board, sadly the pilot was killed.

Our thoughts and prayers with those and the families of those involved in the crash.