London-Stansted Airport is buzzing with expectation. Not Heathrow, but instead the large airport that is located 55 km northeast of London has the honor of taking delivery of the 1,000th PANTHER in the world.
It’s May 15, 2012 as Rosenbauer welcomes airport fire departments, chassis manufacturers, public figures, and journalists to a hangar at Hörsching Airport in Austria. They have all come to celebrate the most successful ARFF vehicle of all time: the 1,000th PANTHER has left the plant in Leonding and will ensure the safety and protection of London’s Stansted Airport from now on.
Since the first PANTHER was delivered to Newcastle in the United Kingdom, many more PANTHERs had been put into use at British airports by the time the 1,000 anniversary vehicle came out. Düsseldorf Airport in Germany has also seen PANTHERs driving over its runways since 1995. The 999th PANTHER went to the North Rhine-Westfalia Airport, to the delight of the local airport fire department. And the PANTHER with the Oriental looking number 1,001 reported for duty at New Doha International Airport in Qatar.
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