Recently Flight Structures was involved with the refit of ZK-HEP, which can be seen all around the North Island as it covers many of the operational bases whilst other helicopters are getting serviced. The MBB -BK117 B2 made a visit to our hangar where installation occurred.
Flight Structures designed, manufactured and certified the stretcher floor and seat pillar mounts to attach the seats to the helicopter floor. We also installed the FSL designed dual equipment mount which allows installation of equipment to the rotorcraft wall fittings. In ZK-HEP a ventilator and defibrillator/monitor are attached to the mount to allow excellent in flight medical care.
The workshop team, led by Brett Purchase, worked extremely hard to a tight deadline and after less than two days it was back in service, and as this is written a week later, HEP is down in Taranaki working. As you can see some of the team liked posing with HEP……
