Helge Andreassen "Friends of the Norwegian Starfighter Association" president 2018

"It started with the fact that we have some Norwegian Starfighters flying in the US in private ownership. I was in contact with these guys and they wanted
to check out spare parts in Norway, so I used my contacts to look for these. It turns out we have quite a lot, so I stopped and said to myself - why don't we
seek out the possibility of getting one flying in Norway?" Helge Andreassen has a pretty strong connection with the Starfighter. Now in his sixties, he flew
the type in the Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF) in the 1970s, accruing over 1000 hours on the type. After finishing his pilot training in the States he started
on the F-5 with 334 Squadron, but when the RNoAF decided to increase their Starfighter fleet he moved onto that. Leaving the air force in '79 as a First Lieutenant,
he flew for SAS on a number of types before working in the Norwegian CAA (CAA-N). He retired in 2012, but he'd been working on the Starfighter return for a while
before then. "We still had the human resources, the people, the technicians, we even had the backing of the air force eventually. This was back in 2001,
I formed the Friends of Norwegian Starfighter (Foreningen Starfighterens Venner, FSV) in 2003 and have been president of that ever since and have been in charge
of the whole restoration project."

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