DIFFLOCKEDTHE REGISTRY NAMED MODEL · 1999
NAMED MODELSpecial · FireUnited Kingdom

Helicopter and Aviation Services Fire Defender

Helicopter and Aviation Services' aerodrome fire and rescue Defender 110 hard top, T517 GTH — red with yellow battenburg, callsign 2, a roof ladder and light bar, and a towed water bowser — providing fire cover for helicopter operations at events and racecourses.

Drive it in the gameSources & evidence
Helicopter and Aviation Services Fire Defender — front three-quarter view, registry 3D render
BASE VEHICLEDefender 110BUILT BYLand Rover, Solihull (Defender 110 hard top, 1999 registration)IN SERVICE1999OPERATED INUnited KingdomPRODUCTIONSmall fleetLAYOUT4 wheels · 110″

The record

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 the company's Defender 110 hard top, T517 GTH, at a showground in 2018: red with a single row of yellow battenburg along the doors and body, AERODROME FIRE & RESCUE and the company name on the rear body, callsign 2 on the doors, a blue and amber light bar and a ladder on the roof, towing a red water bowser trailer with its pump.

The queue's reference image, however, was the gallery's neighbouring vehicle, HT02 JVY — a fluorescent-yellow Defender 110 truck cab with red battenburg, a portable pump, cabinet and kit bags in the bed, which ukemergency.co.uk records as an Invicta Fire & Rescue helipad fire vehicle, not an HAS one. The registry's model was built from that image, so it shows the Invicta layout and livery rather than T517 GTH; a rework to the red hard top with ladder and bowser is outstanding. In the game the kit bags drop as cargo and it carries water-pool pickups and the blue-light boost.

Specification

MANUFACTURERLand Rover, Solihull (Defender 110 hard top, 1999 registration)
MODIFIER / COACHBUILDERHelicopter and Aviation Services (fire equipment and livery)
MANUFACTUREDT-registration (March–August 1999)
ENGINELand Rover Td5 2.5 L five-cylinder turbo-diesel (Defender of 1999; not stated in the source)
PRODUCTION RUNSmall fleet; count unknown
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
OPERATED INUnited Kingdom
STATUSin service (2018 photograph)
REGISTRATIONT517 GTH (HAS); HT02 JVY is Invicta Fire & Rescue's truck cab, the model's reference
EQUIPMENTRoof ladder, light bar, towed water bowser with pump (T517 GTH); portable pump, cabinet and kit bags (HT02 JVY as modelled)
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINEDefender
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE110″
CATEGORYSpecial · Fire

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.

Variants & colours

Factory colours

  • Fire Engine Red

Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.

AI rendering impression

An AI rendering impression starts from the registry's own 3D model of this vehicle, which an image model then paints into a scene. It is an artist's impression of the type, made to give a feel for the vehicle in its element — not a photograph, and not a record of any particular vehicle.

Proportions, fittings, markings, colours and the setting can all drift from the original in the process. For the vehicle's actual details, rely on the registry's 3D renders, the specification and the cited sources on this page.

Where it was

GB United Kingdom1999–2026 · Helicopter and Aviation Services
  1. BuiltLand Rover, Lode Lane, SolihullUnited Kingdom · 1999 →52.43, -1.78

Sources

  1. 1T517 GTH Helicopter and Aviation Services Land Rover Defender ↗ukemergency.co.uk · accessed 2026-09-14SOURCE
  2. 2HT02 JVY Invicta Fire & Rescue Land Rover Defender ↗ukemergency.co.uk · accessed 2026-09-14SOURCE
  3. 3Airport fire vehicles ↗ukemergency.co.uk · accessed 2026-09-14SOURCE
  4. 4https://www.ukemergency.co.uk/category/fire/fire-airport/https://www.ukemergency.co.uk/category/fire/fire-airport/ ↗REFERENCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-16T05:55:32.039Z · status: researched