02 October 2020
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The Puma body arrived with a load of spares
On 1 October 2020, another Puma fuselage arrived at Newark Air Museum’s site in eastern Nottinghamshire. This was accompanied by a significant collection of Puma spares.
The collection of donated items was transported from its former location in the south of England, to Newark as part of the museums’ efforts to effect a complete rebuild of Aerospatiale Puma HC Mk 1 helicopter, XW208.
As well as the Puma 9L-LSG fuselage, other significant items that arrived for the project were a rotor head, gearbox, rotor blades, tail booms, tail rotor blades and troop seats. As with the arrival of XW208 back in February 2018, this latest collection and delivery project was completed by local contractor Gillivers Haulage.
“We are extremely grateful for this latest significant donation of parts,” commented museum trustee and XW208 rebuild expert, Kev Graham. He added, “The first job will be to undertake an extensive spares recovery programme from the fuselage. Once this has been completed we will start refitting the recovered items to XW208 with the aim of making it the first complete Puma HC.1 to be displayed in the UK!”
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