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

Jeff D. Welker · December 03, 2011, 08:06:37 PM

IAR's Son of Zeus on final...

Jeff D. Welker · January 16, 2012, 11:42:20 PM

yipDog · December 16, 2012, 07:10:59 PM

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

Joe Copalman · December 16, 2012, 07:16:21 PM

Dang, was this out at Coolidge or at Willie?

yipDog · December 16, 2012, 07:22:04 PM

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 · December 16, 2012, 09:44:53 PM

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 · December 16, 2012, 10:05:29 PM

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 · December 16, 2012, 11:34:29 PM

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 · December 18, 2012, 07:46:29 PM

Got another chance at shooting today...

yipDog · December 20, 2012, 08:36:03 PM

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

yipDog · June 19, 2015, 08:06:07 PM

New bird fresh out of paint!

yipDog · July 08, 2015, 03:05:25 PM

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