G-LAAB — EC135 T3 of Airbus Helicopters UK
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Facts
- Type
- EC135 T3
- Manufacturer
- Airbus Helicopters-Kawasaki
- Operator
- Airbus Helicopters UK
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ICAO hex
- 407FDD
Rarity & spotters
★★★☆☆G-LAAB is one of 126 EC135 T3 in our database.
Activity
From our radar history of the last 7 days.
- Flights
- 28
- Airborne time
- 2.4 h
- Max altitude
- 1,875 ft
- Max speed
- 142 kt
- Typical cruise
- 850 ft · 104 kt
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About the type: Boeing EC-135
The Boeing EC-135 is a retired family of command and control aircraft derived from the Boeing C-135 Stratolifter. During the Cold War, the EC-135 was best known for being modified to perform the Looking Glass mission where one EC-135 was always airborne 24 hours a day to serve as flying command post for the Strategic Air Command in the event of nuclear war. Various other EC-135 aircraft sat on airborne and ground alert throughout the Cold War, with the last EC-135C being retired in 1998. The EC-135N variant served as the tracking aircraft for the Apollo program.
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