{"id":3234,"date":"2018-01-24T02:48:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=3234"},"modified":"2024-02-23T03:03:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T00:03:55","slug":"three-ex-slovak-mi-24s-for-senegal-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=3234","title":{"rendered":"Three ex-Slovak Mi-24s for Senegal Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Details are finally emerging of the origin of the second-hand Mi-24Vs that the Arm\u00e9e de l\u2019Air S\u00e9n\u00e9galaise (Senegalese Air Force) has recently acquired.<\/strong><br><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"617\" height=\"463\" class=\"wp-image-3236\" style=\"width: 1024px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-Three-ex-Slovak-Mi-24s-for-Senegal-Air-Force.jpg\" alt=\"Three ex-Slovak Mi-24s for Senegal Air Force\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-Three-ex-Slovak-Mi-24s-for-Senegal-Air-Force.jpg 617w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-Three-ex-Slovak-Mi-24s-for-Senegal-Air-Force-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><em>The first Senegalese Air Force Mi-24V, 6W-HCA, being towed out to a waiting An-124 at L\u00f3d\u00b4z, Poland, prior to delivery on February 8, 2017. A further two have also now been delivered. (Photo by WZL-1)<\/em><br><br>Poland\u2019s Wojskowe Zak?ady Lotnicze Nr 1 (WZL-1) overhaul facility in L\u00f3d\u00b4z has been overhauling the helicopters prior to delivery and the first example, 6W-HCA, performed its acceptance flight on January 12, 2017 (see Senegalese Hind overhauled in Poland, March 2017, p20).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was then airfreighted out of L\u00f3d\u00b4z on February 8 on board Antonov Airlines An-124 UR-82073 to Dakar-Yoff, prior toentering service. Two more, 6W-HCB and 6W-HCD, were seen at L\u00f3d\u00b4z on November 14 and August 3 respectively, being test flown prior to being delivered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They departed Poland on November 30. It has now been discovered that all three are former Slovak Air Force examples: 6W-HCA is c\/n 830708, ex Slovak 0708; 6W-HCB is c\/n 730813 ex 0813; and 6W-HCD is c\/n 730833, ex 0833. Despite the missing serial 6W-HCC, no further helicopters are being acquired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the first Mi-24s operated by Senegal. However, two Mi-35P variants, bought direct from Russia, have been in service since 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: By Dave Allport \/ AirForces Monthly &#8211; January 2018<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?cat=1693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Lina Van Rensburg <\/a>(S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/africa.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">AFRICA XAIRFORCES<\/a> Editor)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details are finally emerging of the origin of the second-hand Mi-24Vs that the Arm\u00e9e de l\u2019Air S\u00e9n\u00e9galaise (Senegalese Air Force) has recently acquired. The first Senegalese Air Force Mi-24V, 6W-HCA, being towed out to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1670,172,36,19,1693,7,18],"tags":[3293,3294,3289,3291,1288,69,254,3288,3290,3292],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}