A newly produced AgustaWestland GrandNew – serial 22236 – has been registered as G-SGRP yesterday.  The helicopter will replace an earlier A109E Power G-STGR which has been noted regularly in the sales pages in recent months.  G-SGRP will be based at Carlisle Airport, one of two owned by the group, and operated in the executive transport role between the company’s various locations.

Well known in the UK and mainland Europe for its 2,250 strong fleet of iconic green red and gold trucks, Stobart Group has been expanding into other areas of warehousing, distribution and logistics – in fact transportation in its wider sense.  As well as owning two airports – the second is Southend, just east of London – there are now many rail wagons carrying the Stobart name.  The company operates over 6,000,000 sq.ft of warehousing and also has a division which supplies biomass fuels for low-carbon electricity generation.

Jeremy Parkin – HeliHub.com