Formula One team Sauber is being helped on its quest for success in the world's most glamorous sport with a specially liveried Pilatus PC-12NG, featuring an image of the Sauber C31 car.
The aircraft performed its first mission last weekend, flying Sauber's eight-man team to the first European Grand Prix of the season in Spain.
It landed at Sabadell, a small aerodrome with a 3,280ft (1,000m) runway just a few kilometres from the Circuit de Catalunya, near Barcelona.
Team principal and owner Peter Sauber says: "One of the best features of the PC-12 is its ability to land on, and take off from, very short runways. It leaves us free to avoid the big, inefficient airports. We were back at the aircraft within a few minutes of the race finishing and airborne shortly afterwards."
Source: Flight Daily News
