Helicopter and Aviation Services Fire Defender

History

Helicopter and Aviation Services provide temporary helipads and fire cover for helicopter operations at events, shows and racecourses, and run small Land Rover fire vehicles that can follow the helicopters onto grass. ukemergency.co.uk's airport-fire gallery photographed one at a showground: a Defender 110 truck cab in fluorescent yellow with two rows of red battenburg along the doors and bed sides, callsign 2 on the doors, red and yellow chevrons on the tailgate, a blue light bar on the cab roof, and in the bed a portable fire pump with hose, an equipment cabinet and kit bags. The photographed vehicle carries HT02 JVY; the queue's row names T517 GTH, presumably a sister vehicle in the same fleet.

The registry's model is a Defender 110 truck cab in the yellow and red livery with the light bar, pump, cabinet and kit bags — the bags drop as cargo in the game, which also gives it water-pool pickups and the blue-light boost.

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Registry record

Manufacturer

Land Rover (Defender 110 truck cab)

Manufactured

HT02 registration (photographed vehicle)

Modifier / coachbuilder

Helicopter and Aviation Services (fire equipment and livery)

Engine type

Land Rover Td5 2.5 L turbo-diesel (Defender of 2002; not stated in the source)

Production run

Small fleet; count unknown

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Operated in

United Kingdom

Status

in-service

Catalogue data

Record kind

Named model

Model line

Defender

Wheels

4

Nominal wheelbase

110″

Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.

Sources & citations

Researched sources

• Fire > Airport ↗ — UK Emergency Vehicles (accessed 2026-09-11)

Catalogue references

• https://www.ukemergency.co.uk/category/fire/fire-airport/ https://www.ukemergency.co.uk/category/fire/fire-airport/ ↗