Registration / Serial:F-ZVLH
Other Marks:H71
Aircraft Original Type:Sud SA-330 Puma
Aircraft Generic Type:Aerospatiale SA-330 Puma
Aircraft Version:Aerospatiale SA-330BA/Orchidee Puma
C/n (msn):1052
Operator Titles:France - Army / Aerospatiale
City / Airport:Paris - Le Bourget (LFPB / LBG)Map
Country:France
Event:Paris Air Show 1989
Photo Date:13 June 1989
Photo by:Paul SeymourContact
Photo ID:853174Submit Correction
View count: 145
Built for the French Army as 1052 in 1971. Modified to carry an Orchidée battlefield surveillance radar system with a rotating underfuselage antenna, for the French Army and first flew as such as in 1986 marked as F-ZVLH. It was the only Puma converted. The Orchidée programme was cancelled in 1990, It served with the French Army n this configuration but with sharkmouth and invasion stripes, during Gulf war in 1990-1991. It flew 28 missions. Noted in store at Montauban in 2020.
Registration / Serial:F-ZVLH
Aircraft Version:Aerospatiale SA-330BA/Orchidee Puma
C/n (msn):1052
Operator Titles:France - Army / Aerospatiale
City / Airport:Paris - Le Bourget (LFPB / LBG)Map
Country:France
Photo Date:13 June 1989
Photo by:Paul SeymourContact
Registration / Serial:F-ZVLH
Other Marks:H71
Aircraft Original Type:Sud SA-330 Puma
Aircraft Generic Type:Aerospatiale SA-330 Puma
Aircraft Version:Aerospatiale SA-330BA/Orchidee Puma
C/n (msn):1052
Operator Titles:France - Army / Aerospatiale
City / Airport:Paris - Le Bourget (LFPB / LBG)Map
Country:France
Event:Paris Air Show 1989
Photo Date:13 June 1989
Photo by:Paul SeymourContact
Photo ID:853174Submit Correction
View count: 145
Built for the French Army as 1052 in 1971. Modified to carry an Orchidée battlefield surveillance radar system with a rotating underfuselage antenna, for the French Army and first flew as such as in 1986 marked as F-ZVLH. It was the only Puma converted. The Orchidée programme was cancelled in 1990, It served with the French Army n this configuration but with sharkmouth and invasion stripes, during Gulf war in 1990-1991. It flew 28 missions. Noted in store at Montauban in 2020.
Registration / Serial:F-ZVLH
Aircraft Version:Aerospatiale SA-330BA/Orchidee Puma
C/n (msn):1052
Operator Titles:France - Army / Aerospatiale
City / Airport:Paris - Le Bourget (LFPB / LBG)Map
Country:France
Photo Date:13 June 1989
Photo by:Paul SeymourContact