This Pilatus PC-6 "Porter," like the ones currently in use in our program in Southeast Asia has been in the JAARS shop undergoing equipment installation. Our mechanics and avionics technicians have stripped out the original radio and instrument equipment and are nearly completed with putting the instrument panel into a configuration that is standardized with the two Porters we have on the field. I have to say that at the early stages I wondered if this was going to go back together right! What these guys can do always amazes me.
In about a week this plane will be ready for its first test flight. Then for three weeks we will be conducting a course here at JAARS for some of our Training pilots with this airplane before we get it ready to send to the Pacific. First it will get a coat of blue paint to match the other two (pictured here on the field), then it'll head accross the Big Pond in a container. I'll keep you updated on the progress of this machine.
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