Scania Shoreham Airport, Rescue & Fire Fighting Service (VU06 XYR). Seen here in August at Worthing Fire Station open day on an adjoining playing field where the Police helicopter was to land.
Picture added on 05 September 2007
Comments:
are these the same vehicles as vipers sorry i mean are these scania vipers like the ones based at endinburgh airport as a domestic appliance and the same at glasgow airport
2006 scania/carmichael viper p420 4x4 airfield crash tender.this vehicle(fire3) can accelerate from 0-50mph in 23 seconds and has a maximum speed of over 80mph. fire3 carries 4627 litres of water and a foam tank capacity of 746 litres of class b, fffp foam compound for firefighting.the akron 3367 roof monitor has a jet throw of some 64 metres.fire 3 was delivered new to shoreham airport rescue and firefighting service in may, 2006 at a cost of �220, 000.this new appliance gives the cat4 fire & rescue service, which covers one tarmac and three grass runways at the airport a very comprehensive fleet of vehicles.in answer to the question, I really am not to sure what the british airport authority (baa) are using at their 7 uk airports for domestic incidents these days.during my last visit to gatwick airport f&r, they were using volvo, that was a while back.pete m.
BAA domestic appliances currently run are 'normal bodied' scania/angloco appliances - they have extra side lockers and ladders as you'd find on a normal appliance, and are without the roof monitor. Also, some/all of the BAA airports have hoselayers built on a similar sized scania chassis.
Harvey, the East Sussex photograph of Pevensey on its way now.I hope they include the picture at sometime.Pete. Scott, thanks for the information regarding the BAA domestic appliances.I'll have to try and get up to Gatwick again sometime for some up-to-date pictures. Pete M.
Edinburgh airport have 2 53 plated carmichael vipers, both are 4 wheel drive and are 420bhp and seat 4. in the 'belly' lockers there is a drum of dry powder with hose attached that is lowered when needed, and wheeled to the incident, also at edinburgh, the one that is Fire 2 also doubles up as the appliance that attends First aid calls where required, (Fire 10 attends ALL first aid calls in the airport and is a shogun jeep.) the main difference is the moniter on this and the Edinburgh one, Edinburghs have a carmichael moniter. also another difference is the lightbar, Edinburgh has no light bar, instead has 2 strobes in the visor 2 in the grill and 2 rotators on the roof at the back aswell as blue lights fitted to the rear brake/reverse/indicator each are individual not clustered together, i do have a pic will post when I find it hope this is of help/info jamie
Added by Jamie Percival on 28 November 2007.
Jamie, thanks for the information on the domestic (BAA) fire appliances.I hope you'll find that picture in due course so we can all have a look.Cheers, Pete M.
I stand corrected on my earlier post - you can find information about what appliances are operated where in the UK airports at the following link: www.firefleet.co.uk/html/air_fire_rescue_fleets.html Regards, Scott
Scott, thanks for the your info in reference to whats in use at airports in the U.K.today, but do you have any pictures you can share with us of crash trucks in use today at BAA Airports?.The majority of my pictures are from the 1980's and 1990's, ie, Javelin, Meteor, etc, etc.I'm sure at sometime I'll get around to putting afew of my pictures on this website regarding airport crash trucks.
What 5 years old!!! The Sligo fire fighters must be jumping for joy, to even find one of these for sale on the secondhand market is unheard of. I know that most small airfields couldn't even afford one of these, let alone buy one and sell it after 5 years. Why is this??
Added by Simon Gunning on 10 December 2011.
The sale of this machine must have been a real motivational boost to the crew at Shoreham. Does it have anything to do the new owners of the airport wanting some money back.
Added by Fire Fifer on 26 November 2007.