As the grounding of the EC225 continues, the North Sea operators are looking around their fleets to see how they can cover the shortfall.  Bristow has identified a Sikorsky S92 in its Nigerian operation, and the aircraft is currently on its ferry flight north.

The particular aircraft only departed Aberdeen on 23rd March and ferried south on its British registration to join the Bristow fleet in the West African country.  Its registration G-CICH was cancelled on 8th April on transfer to Nigeria and is now marked for a pending update – which we assume to be the re-allocation.

Currently as 5N-BTI, the S92 overnighted at Tours in France last night, and as this story is published it is en route to Redhill in the UK with an 0850Z scheduled arrival time.  It is then expected to fly on to Aberdeen later today.  Bristow Nigeria continues to operate a further five S92s.

Jeremy Parkin – HeliHub.com