Sud Aviation SA 316B Alouette III Sécurité Civile HC.1

Sud Aviation SA 316B Alouette III Sécurité Civile HC.1Frances civil security services took delivery of their first SA 3160 Alouette III, No. 1036 (F ZBAL), from Sud Aviation on 14th June 1962. The Alouette IIIs first flight (SE 3160 No. 001) took place on 28th February 1959. Liked very much for its maneuverability, enabling visual night flights, it was the ideal helicopter for surveillance and rescue operations.

Perhaps its most important feature was its simplicity

Entering RAF service some seven years after it had with the Royal Navy

6 Squadron IAF (Indian Air Force)

more specifi cally the 3/5 „Comtat -Venaissin „fi ghter squadron

Don Muang airport

commissioned in 1971

5cm sFH 414(f)“ (German Afrikakorps)

a true aviation classic

- Doors and windows can be assembled open or closed

a radar and winch operator and a winchman/paramedic

reliable and adaptable

He earned the title of “Discoverer of CANADA”