On 21/3/2012, Cathy Conway has returned from Europe where she has been buying gliders for the club. We have now acquired 2 x K13’s and 2 x K8’s. The K13 is a 2 seat glider and the K8 is single seat
One K13 came from Rieti in Italy. The other 3 aircraft came from Germany. The aircraft have been rounded up to an airfield near Hof in Germany. We have arranged for the 4 gliders to be packed into a shipping container there and sent to Adelaide. We expect the container will arrive late May. We will then need to make a big effort to get the aircraft through inspection so they can be issued with Australian registrations and Certificates of Airworthiness. We will prioritise the inspection of one of the K13’s so we can get our training operations back under way as quickly as possible.
We would like to thank Cathy for the considerable effort put in over the last couple of weeks and Simon Hackett who made all this possible.