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Greg Hyde 3rd November 2017 12:02 PM

DC-10 Air Tanker Back at Richmond
 
The Very Large Air Tanker (DC-10) was christened "Nancy Bird" after Nancy Bird Walton at a ceremony at RAAF Richmond this morning.

The DC-10 can reach any hot-spot in NSW within one hour

https://www.facebook.com/nswrfs/

The a/c is N522AX

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N522AX

A laps for the press this morning

MarkR 11th February 2018 05:07 PM

The VLAT has had a full day operating on the Orange fire, with numerous sorties ex Richmond.

The coordinating Aero Commander has been staging out of Dubbo while there is also a scanning King Air operating high (VH-LAB), a practice first put in place by the NSCA in the 80's, also with King Airs.


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