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Pilatus Porter History
by Markus Herzig
S/N 667

N62156 of CASI at Bangkok
Photo by David Kouba © Jun-75
SE-IRR, named 'Lisa',  at Goteborg-Save
Photo by Jonny Anderson © 1986
F-GOCC on its homebase at Bouloc
Photo by Charles Sauthier © 2003

S/N: 667 Built: 1968 TSN: 19'600
Registration Type Operator / Owner From To Remarks
HB-FDR PC-6/B1-H2 Pilatus Flugzeugwerke 1968-02-23 1968-03-19 ferry registration
XW-PFQ PC-6/B1-H2 Continental Air Services Inc. 1968-02-26 1974-12 logged 9000 hours in 3 years
N62156 PC-6/B1-H2 Continental Air Services Inc. 1974-12 1976-11-11 last CASI PC-6 in Laos, std 6/75
C-GXIJ PC-6/B1-H2 Viking Helicopters 1977-03-10 1985-04 sprayer, ops in Upper-Volta for WHO
SE-IRR PC-6/B1-H2 Aero Goteborg 1985-06-19 1994-01 "Lisa", new painted 1993
SE-IRR PC-6/B1-H2 Ostersunds Fallskarmsklubb 1994-01 1997-08-22 dmg 10.6.96 and 26.4.97
HB-FLL PC-6/B2-H2 Pilatus Flugzeugwerke 1998-02-09 1998-02-19 rebuild and cvt to B2-H2 
F-GOCC PC-6/B2-H2 CEP Midi-Pyrenees 1998-03-04 2000-01 cvt to B2-H4 by Pilatus
F-GOCC PC-6/B2-H4 CEP Midi-Pyrenees 2000-01 Current Powered by PT6A-34 since 2003
           
This aircraft was completely rebuild 1997/98 in over 4'000 working hours by Pilatus Aircraft Maintenance at Stans,Switzerland. On February 19, 1998 - exactly 30 years after it's first flight - the "like new" Turbo Porter was delivery to it's new operator in France, the Centre Ecole Parachutisme Midi-Pyrenées at Bouloc.

SE-IRR crash landed at Oestersund 26-Apr-97
Photo by Hakan Goeransson © 1997
F-GOCC at Stans, upgraded to B2-H4 by Pilatus
Photo by Markus Herzig © 2000
Taking off into the blue sky over Bouloc
Photo by Charles Sauthier © 2003

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