Kustwacht / Dutch Coast Guard
last update January 26, 2008
photos of the "real thing"
The Dornier Do-228 is used by the Dutch Coast Guard. These planes have
civil registrations and are based in The Netherlands operating from De
Kooy airport near Den Helder.
First a leased Do-228-212 was used from 1992 registered PH-MNZ.
(December 2007, two more second hand aircraft Do-228-212 were handed over to the Coast Guard. They have been modified at RUAG Oberpfaffenhofen and got a glass cockpit, new avionics, satcom, Start Saphire forward looking infrared vision camera's and dispensable sonar boys. The radar has also been much improved with a Terma sideways looking radar).
photos:
Meindert de Vreeze
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photos taken Sept 2007.
Do-228-212, PH-MNZ, Dutch Coast Guard plan, "Nederlandse Kustwacht".
In 1/72 scale, a plastic model is available from Revell.
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