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1217 - Det 1, 126th Medical Company (Air Ambulance) Maintenance Facility, Stead Tahoe Airport, Reno, Nevada
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CW2 Olson picked up the phone. "Det 1 Maintenance."
"Sir, this is Spec4 Roman down at Nellis. Did you get the word about aircraft 437?"
"Yeah, we'll be sending a maintenance officer down to be on the mishap board... probably Captain Collins."
"That's fine sir, but what I was calling about is that now leaves us down to two aircraft. 283 is due a hot section inspection in about fifteen hours. Can we do that through the Air Force down here?"
"I don't think so... let me check the records... No, 283 is also due a NDI on the rotor blades at the same time, and we are switching out the tail rotor to the Mark III version. It'll probably be better if we just fly that one back here and do it. I'll talk to the ops people... we can probably get someone to fly one of the ones up here just coming out of inspection down there and swap out for the 283 bird. We'll need four hours to fly it up here though, so don't let them fly it more than another ten or eleven hours."
"When would that be?"
"We'll try to make it Saturday... I'll keep you posted. In the meantime, try and schedule all the longer flights on your other bird, it's still got quite a bit of time before its next phase inspection.
"OK, sir. I'll let everyone know."
Olson dialed the phone. "Ops... we are going to need a replacement bird for the broken one and we have a bird down at Nellis that's going to need to be swapped out for maintenance. Any chance of gen'ing up a couple of flights down on Saturday? Everybody can come back in the returning bird. OK, I'll get the flights scheduled then."
