International Air Response, Inc. - Herc's, etc

[Jeff D. Welker]

IAR's Son of Zeus on final...

[Jeff D. Welker]

[yipDog]

New IAR bird!  First flight...just back from refurb and new paint. Headed for China next week.

[Joe Copalman]

Dang, was this out at Coolidge or at Willie?

[yipDog]

Sorry! Willie!
Taken from the Gate 5 cubby.
I knew about this in advance as a friend of mine does their video production work.

[BillOz]

Interesting, this appears to be one of the former Hawkins and Powers Hemet Valley Flying Service birds with those 8 door drop tanks.

I saw this out there yesterday, but only got a thru the fence shot of it while they were refueling.

[Joe Copalman]

I think 121 was one of the three they've been operating out of Coolidge and Willie for a while.  There's another they're working on (Tanker 88?) out at Coolidge.

[Chris Kennedy]

I'm pretty sure that the one that was Tanker 88/N138FF is now N119TG. That's the one that was at Coolidge during the October and November fly-in weekends stripped of all paint. It apparently left some time between the November fly-in and two weeks ago. Probably out being painted. I don't think that one was an H & P bird though. I think it was owned by Hemet Valley Flying Service at one time.

[yipDog]

Got another chance at shooting today...

[yipDog]

Found out this was the plane used for the opening scene of "The Dark Knight Rises"!
Amazing history for this airframe!

[yipDog]

New bird fresh out of paint!

[yipDog]