Photo Gallery: Bird-Dog Aviation

Sunday, September 15, 2013

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No. Helicopters: 5

Location: South Africa

Aircraft in Fleet:

  • Bell UH-1 Huey
  • Bell UH-1 Super Huey
External Load Work:
  • Fire Fighting
  • Cargo Transport
  • Construction
  • Custom load work
Description: Bird Dog Aviation owns and operates five UH-1H helicopters primarily in the firefighting role and for ad-hoc lifting work such as the rhino lifting. The fleet consists of two “Super Huey” and three standard models.

 

Our thanks to Tosh Ross of Bird-Dog Aviation for sharing this issue's amazing helicopter external load photo gallery with us—and all of our readers. This photo gallery features photos from a recent rhino airlift mission in South Africa.

Tosh also shared an article with us that provides complete details about the rhino airlift. If you're interested in the effort to save the rhinos, be sure to check it out.

Bird Dog Aviation owns and operates five UH-1H helicopters primarily in the firefighting role and for ad-hoc lifting work such as the rhino lifting. The fleet consists of two “Super Huey” and three standard models.

As an interesting aside, Tosh mentioned that the same lifting method used for the rhinos has also been used to relocate buffalo on a private game farm, where one of the animals being lifted was worth more than the helicopter.

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Contact information:

Bird Dog Aviation
PO Box 712
Graskop 1270
South Africa

Telephone: +27-137-671087
email: mashonisa@me.com


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