Yellow panther lands at Glasgow Airport

Yellow panther lands at Glasgow Airport

Jan 26, 2012
Airports, Ground Services
Airline Ground Services

On Friday 20th, January 2012, Glasgow became the first airport in Scotland to take delivery of a new Rosenbauer CA5 Panther fire appliance and Derek Mackay MSP for Renfrewshire North and West was on-hand to help mark the occasion.

The new Panthers, which were manufactured in Austria before being delivered to Glasgow, are at the cutting-edge of fire fighting technology and will form the centrepiece of the airport’s fleet of fire appliances. Glasgow Airport’s second appliance will arrive in June 2012 with the third arriving in early 2013.

The 34 tonne vehicles can carry 13,000 litres of water and 1,600 litres of foam and can accelerate from 0 to 80km/h in less than 32 seconds. The vehicle’s unusual and striking design recently caught the eye of Hollywood producers who cast the CA5 Panther as Sentinal Prime in the third instalment of the Transformers films – Dark of the Moon.

Glasgow Airport’s fire service fleet consists of five major foam tenders, two medium foam tenders and two shoguns.

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