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First fully UK-built Islander arrives in the Falklands
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First fully UK-built Islander arrives in the Falklands

FIGAS has welcomed its new Islander, VP-FTS, in Stanley after an almost three-week delivery flight from Punta Arenas, Chile. It is the first Islander built entirely in the UK, assembled from component level at Britten-Norman’s Bembridge facility on the Isle of Wight. The journey began on October 20 and took the aircraft via Iceland, Greenland, the United States and the length of South America. The aircraft will support FIGAS’s vital passenger, freight, mail and medical services connecting Falkland Islands communities, building on more than four decades of Islander operations.
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