Bravo November Traditional Cache

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An amazing story about an ordinary Chinook.
I would love to hear her engines start and smell her exhaust fumes.

This aircraft has seen four of its pilots awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for actions whilst in command of Bravo November.

An interesting extract from an e-mail from my Brother-in-law. (a Falklander)

Hi Derek,
Yes, it is an amazing story of an ordinary Chinook aircraft! She would have went down with all the other on Atlantic conveyor if she hadn’t been on a ‘tasking’ and airborne at the time the Exocet hit the ship!
Bravo November has flown in every conflict zone that Great Britain has been involved in since the Falklands war too...she crashed into the sea (Rumford creek near Estancia farm) during the Falklands conflict whilst flying very low in a snow blizzard...the crew jettisoned the port cockpit door and amazingly the aircraft bounced off the water and continued flying...! The ground crew robbed a door off an Argentine Chinook after the Argie surrender on the 14th June.
I have flown on Bravo November. In June 1982 a few days after the surrender...I rode my Suzuki SP400 up the ramp and sat on it for the duration of the flight to Stanley!
That was when I went back to join the small coaster that I worked on as 2nd engineer...our job was to ferry 1000’s of Argie prisoners of war out to a ship for repatriation...(the rest of the story is censored)! Take care, Phil.