UK Home Office calls in Dash 8 to counter small boats

As part of the UK Government’s efforts to tackle the use of small boats by immigrants crossing the English Channel, the Home Office has contracted Canada’s PAL Aerospace to provide an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance Dash 8 and crew. The Dash 8-315 ISR, C-GFMX (c/n 410), passed through Shannon Airport over May 11-12 and departed for Lydd Airport in Kent, from where the aircraft conducts its patrols. The company states the turboprop will be deployed for “an initial period of