Cool visitor to KPBI (West Palm Beach, FL)

scooter22 · Jul 5, 2008

Last week we had an Antonov An-124 show up on the ramp for a few hours. Why was she there? A brand new Agusta AB-139 was loaded and off they went.
I felt a little bad for the crew, they were bummed they didn't get to RON and enjoy a little of Florida ...

Truly an incredible airplane. The entire floor is made of Titanium.
The helo went in through the front, and the rotors were loaded through the rear door via a movable crane.

When it was time for departure, she blasted off using roughly half of the 10,000' runway. (Of course, all she had was one medium sized helo and a 48,000 GALLON drink of Jet A. Wow.

rotxlk82 · Jul 5, 2008

That's a pretty serious bit of kit there Warner, thanks for showing it to us

LDB415 · Jul 5, 2008

That is definitely cool.

alexf · Jul 5, 2008

Awesome. I saw one parked in KMIA a few years ago while waiting for cargo.

How did you get that kind of access to it? Well done!

scooter22 · Jul 5, 2008

Hey Alex. My office is in Jet Aviation, the FBO where the An-124 parked.
It is one BIG airplane.

Walt · Jul 5, 2008

That plane is big, thanks for sharing.

walt

PGB · Jul 7, 2008

Way cool! both of them. The AN and the Agusta.

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