inquiry on Iltis

[southsaskscotty]

thanks Scotty! that would be great if you could check it out!

Rob thanks for your input too...Cyprus would be a great piece of Canadian Peacekeeping history too!

cheers!
scott

[Scott Bentley]

Some History on Iltis 85-86337

Purchased for $26363 by the Canadian Forces and entered Service at CFB Calgary on 9 Dec 85.
Transferred to 1 Field Ambulance on 10 Sept 87 until it was retired 11 May 2006. Although it was at 1 Fd Amb, the ECC is for a "Normal" Iltis and not a Front Line Ambulance.

During its life, it had 162 "Corrective Visits" to Maintenance totalling 723 hours of Labour and $23000 worth of Parts.

It 88491 kms on it at its last Maintenance Visit.

It sold for (cough/choke) $4900 at Auction

I tried to find something that would indicate some overseas service, such as a Maintenance Entry done overseas or a big spike of mileage (as usually happens as they tend to rack up more mileage on deployment). Sorry to say, I can't find anything. Not to say it didn't, its just there is nothing in writing that I can find.

Something else to consider, i've seen vehicles in the past painted for deployment, and then the deployment was cancelled. This could possibly be the case for yours.

Scotty

[rob love]

I have also seen Iltis painted in the white and with complete UN markings for public parades or display in Canada, especially just before or after a unit rotated through a tour.

Interesting to note the number of corrective visits, especially compared to some of the data shown on other threads for the old M series jeeps. However, the reasoning for that may be the improved record keeping (plan expert) along with the likelihood that guys are marking all tasks as corrective when estimating them onto that program.

[southsaskscotty]

Thanks for the info Scotty! Very much appreciated! I was hoping for some indication of seeing overseas service just for my own nostalgia, but hey it spent 21 years in the CF, and thats good enough for me.

Scotty, another question for you....not related to this at all but would there be any information on where a particular m113 ended up? All I would have is the plate number (one that a family member drove in Croatia). I would just be curious to see where it ended up, if this is classified info that is cool too.

Thanks Again!
Scott