Skybus De Havilland Twin Otter fleet addition

The heliport was officially closed on 31 October 2012, and BIH chose to sell the site and it is suppose to have a new supermarket built on it.:(

Future Sainsbury’s site

Scene this morning at former PZE(15 Apr 2013)

heliportApr2013C1400 by A30yoyo, on Flickr

heliportApr2013B1400 by A30yoyo, on Flickr

Yeah the loss of British International was a real shame. My mate was a pilot for them, but was really lucky to get an air ambulance job pretty much straight after British International closed down.

Isles of Scilly Routes

The ‘fixed wing’ routes to the Isles have been reduced (Southampton & Bristol stopped) and the Otters do the Exeter run.
The three main routes are now from L-End,Newquay,and Exeter.
The Plymouth route ceased some time ago well before Ply closed.
The new L-End (St Just) Airport terminal opened today.
Penzance heliport is now dormant which is quite strange after nearly half a century of bustle,but some of its equipment lives on (Having been rescued before it went into multiple skips and dumped).
It was particularly sad to see decades of high class engineering back up being destroyed after all the work that went on there.
The jury is still out on how the Islands will adapt to loosing what was for years an aviation conveyor belt.

Found out about this a few days ago 🙂 Good news to see them adding to the fleet 🙂 Shared the sky with them many times when I was flying in Cornwall. Can remember coming behind one of their Islanders when on my qualifying cross country in 2007.
I wonder if they are planning additional routes with this new Twin otter.