Rocky Mountain Helicopters RMH

[Thebell]

I start this Thread to talk with you guys about RMH Helicopters. It would be great if we could share pictures, good memories and some stories.

Thanks

[bell407mech]

Ahhh! A fellow Rocky Dude!

Rocky was one of the best helicopter company I have ever worked for! I joined in 1998 in Tucson, AZ as a mechanic. I was called, "Pete the Mechanic!"

An EMS base called Air Care at the time. BK117, BO-105CBS, and a Cessna 441. Then later the fleet were replaced with Astars and called themselves, LifeNet Arizona.

Oh, what great times! Todd McKiney, Joe Foster, and Jeremy Danforth were the maintenance guys I worked with. The people I worked with were great to work with.

I left RMH in late 2000 to work on a EMS Bell 407. Yep, I am still here on the 407's. Best aircraft I have ever worked on.

What about you? Who, what, where were you at Rocky?


Pete

[SHortshaft]

For those of us with a bad memory and/or not working in the US can anyone give us a ‘potted history’ of the company?

As I recall it they were a leading seismic support company that morphed into an EMS outfit.

[Gordy]

leading seismic support company that morphed into an EMS outfit

Sounds about right...and Larry Doll is still in EMS now.

[fly911]

I started with Air Methods Corp in 1997. Rocky took over the contract I was flying in Columbia, SC so I went with Rocky. Then AMC bought RMH so I was again flying for Air Methods. Both very good companies when I flew for them: BH-407, AS350B2, BO-105, BK-117 and BH-206L. Great maintenance by Jeff Sheldon in Columbia.
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[Phil Kemp]

I ran the S61 logging operation in Alaska from 1990 to 1993. Great outfit and had some really great people there. I thoroughly enjoyed my time there and we had some great fun working all through SE Alaska. The bankruptcy in 1993 ended the operation, but RMH came out of it as a purely EMS operation and was finally sold to Air Methods.

Met some great people while I worked there, and still stay in touch with lots of them.

They had some great seismic and utility operations, and a great in-house capability to modify and complete machines for EMS and other applications. I learned to love the Lama while working there!

[jjunior]

I worked for Rocky Mountain, a great outfit then, as seasonal A&P, back in historical times- 1976. Have this old entry on my aviation resume- "A & P Mechanic, Bell 206, Aerospatial Helicopters. Aviation support- mineral and petroleum geological, seismic mapping". the summer i worked there was in 6 states, mostly with Bell 206B starting in Provo, at Rocky, where a dutch guy- Hans Hilkhausen- was the maintenance chief. I was in Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado, Montana and Idaho as I remember. Can't remember any of the pilots names- a great bunch of guys flying and doing maintenance. Just in case other guys might want to contact me, I'm John ---- Jr., worked on B-52s and KC135 at Dyess AFB , got my license at University of Illinois, Institute of Aviation, worked for Wein Air Alaska in the late 60's and early 70's, Era Helicopters, Anchorage Helicopter Service, and have been involved in other careers since aviation, and now semi retired. one of the last stints to do with helicopters, was at Flight Safety in West Palm Beach, Florida, translating and interpreting on the S-76, for a Brazilian pilot, in the ground school and simulator. Have fond memories of choppers, when I hear the buzzing over head it is still music to my ears. currently in Ilheus, Brazil, where there are several ships from Aerolica operating right now out of the airport, cheers and keep the rotors turning always.

[simon beck]

jjunior,

Hi I'm keen to ask you if you have any records for the fleet RMH
had in 1976, in particular the n-numbers for the Bell 214, 204B
and two Jet Rangers they had.

Cheers
Simon Beck

[shellelindsay]

My dad is Bob Burr. He was the Vice President and head of maintenance at Rocky Mountain Helicopters. I am going to show his this website. If anyone is out there from the good ole days, I am sure he would love to hear from you.

[bladegrip]

I knew your Dad. Flew on an airliner all the way to Saudi Arabia with him once! Fond memories of RMHI and the folks that worked there. I then moved onto Continental Hlelicopters, also based in Utah. Another great place to work.

Does anyone know where Rick Inskeep is?

A.M.

[Foggy Bottom]

I heard that Rick passed away a few years ago, but I do not know that as a fact. Hope I am wrong....

[bladegrip]

Foggy,

I heard the same, but have since heard maybe not. If I find out, I'll be sure to post...

A.M.

[EX-PJ]

If I recall correctly, didn't RMH have a BK-117 based at the 60th Street Helipad in New York City for some time? I recall RMH grumblings about the pilots being the highest paid EMS pilots in the USA. Imagine that, trying to staff EMS helicopter based in the Big Apple! $$$$

They had a blade snap on the BK while it was parked on the pad. I think a S76 landed next to it and the downdraft and turbulence snapped it!

I think one of the pilots is now a Air Traffic Controller?? Name?? Anyone??

[Old shooter]

I flew with some of the best of Rocky Mountain's pilots. Some one mentioned Larry Daul. He once punched me 4 ft into the snow, when his rotor wash sent an old aspen down on my head. One of the few times I wore a hard hat. He hovered above looking down at me, as I gathered my wits, I could hear him saying over the radio, are you OK, are you OK. I was.

The first time I layed eyes on Doug Farfel, was at "the airport" in Heber City. Myself and three drillers were walking up to our ship, a lovely Lama, Doug was there. I asked him where was the pilot? Taking him as the swamper. He just smiled, stuck his hand out and said " hi I'm Doug I'm flying for you today. 95 pounds of raw energy, bouncing up and down like a jumping bean, or maybe a coffee bean, or something. Two or three years later I went to his wedding in Durango Co.

Flew with Walt Tausch, always cool and calm, I guess most were anyway. Had a hand painted cartoon on his Army helmet, the only one I ever saw him wear, a vulture sitting in a tree saying, " patience my ass, I'm going to kill someone".
I was in the Crossroads bar in Heber the night he met his bride to be. I think he married her. Real nice guy.

John Cooley was one of the "crew". He was our pilot in '77-78 my first year in seismic work. My first year out of high school. .Long time ago.

Tom Kupcho, Carl Rosapepe, Skip Fisk , Mike McGill, Dave Fitz. Had a foot fetish as I recall.

The days of my youth, some of the bests times of my life.

Old Shooter

[bladegrip]

Old Shooter thanks for the memories. Several you mention are no longer with us. John "Jack" Cooley was killed in a wire pulling accident in 2004. Don Sheetz succumbed to cancer just last week. I think Carl Rosapepe is still flying EMS in Roanoke, VA. Walt Tausch flew EMS out of Sacramento for a long time, but took a course in massage therapy and left to do that, I believe. I think Dave Fitz retired to Mexico. The good ol days....

[Gordy]

Larry Doll flew part time with Walt at Redding Air Service for a long time. He was flying full time for Reach, retired a year or so ago and this year was back with Spike over at Classic Helicopters.

[Phil Kemp]

I talked to Doug Farfel a couple of weeks ago, completely out of the blue, whan I called Jim Duerock to see what he was up to. They were sitting in the shade under the Air Race bleachers at Reno, waiting for fires, with the S61. I first met Doug in Trenton, NJ, when we went to pick up a couple of ex-Trump S61N's and ferry them back to Provo, UT and thence up to Alaska as Loggers.

Sadly, I attended Skip's funeral a few years ago, at his home in Hamilton, Montana. It was very moving and brought out a large number of people from the helicopter logging business.

I met some great people working there and still deal with a lot of them on a regular basis.

[mclark2459]

Hi - I stumbled onto this website when I was trying to locate some of the people my ex-husband and I used to helicopter log with and up popped a couple of familiar names such as Doug Farfel - wondering if he is still married to Casey? I remember them well from Libby Montana working for RMH. I believe there daughter had already been born when were there (Bridgette). I am glad to hear than he is alive. I also recognize the name Skip Fisk and very sorry to hear that he is no longer with us. Some others that I am familar with is Brian Brennan, Phil Mascott, Bruce Bower, Irish Cobb. It's been so long ago (1980's)

[Rotor Driver]

Did some Seismic with Rocky in the mid to late 70's and then on to EMS in Denver and then Houston. Harold Skarr pops into my head as an excellent longliner. I was just average and I used to watch Harold snake the line down through the trees, as I just beat the trees into submission with my hook! The layout crew once transmitted "Run for your lives baby Aspens! here comes the flying hook!" LOL

[boyerkid]

Sorry to piggy back on this, but I am looking for anyone who may have any stories about working with my dad, Larry Boyer. He worked for Rocky Mountain Helicopters from the mid 1970's through his death in December of 2000. If you have any stories, please let me know.

Thanks

[HLCPTR]

EX-PJ,

RMH was never based at 60th St. NYC. They were at Weschester Co. Hospital some miles north.

Rotor incident at 60th is factual, but not RMH.

[500guy]

Harold Skaar is still around. He retired Last year. Even on his last day of work he impressed me with his longline skills.

[BaddogLT]

In 1981, I was on a BLM firefighting 500D flying out of George AFB. Our contractor was Western helicopters, then part of RMH. I have actually been wearing a RMH belt buckle for 32 years, now. Not sure if that is bragging or embarrassing.

Our primary pilot was Chuck Smith. He was a CWO in Vietnam in the early 1960s, then a Bell guy in Iran when things fell apart. Amazing pilot. A couple tales I recall include flying north towards the Owens valley. We were at Kramer Junction and still did not have clearance to go through the north part of Edwards. We dropped to the deck and flew north at 110+ knots, under the high lines. Another was hopping out of the ship in the eastern Mojave, one skid on the ground (flying at ground level, not the only time) and stepping out carefully to sign a recently discharged midshipmans shirt displayed as a flag. We also auto-rotated back to the station (engine running, but eerily quiet). And the coolest and scariest was riding a thermal from Lone Pine to a trail head near Whitney, right against the cliffs.

One time the electric trim (coollie cap, IIRC) failed outside of Fresno. A few of us figured out how to take Western out of contract so Chuck could fly all the way back to Rialto to get it replaced.

Our relief pilot was their manager, Dorcey Wingo. He'd show up in the afternoon as Chuck was maxing out. Take off his jacket, tie still on, pull on the Nomex, and start flying.

Thanks for letting me reminisce.

[Fris B. Fairing]

Please forgive me for crashing your thread but I thought you guys would like to know that a piece of your history has turned up in Australia. The Queensland Air Museum at Caloundra recently acquired SA315B Lama s/n 2575 which once served with Rocky Mountain Helicopters as N3597D.

We have the RMH log books from Oct 91 to Dec 93 but there are many gaps in the history so we will be very pleased to receive any anecdotes about her time with RMH. It seems that she did a lot of geophysical survey ranging as far afield as Alaska and Mexico. Above all does anyone have a photo of N3597D?

[SASless]

Wingo.....now there is a character in his own right!

[Gordy]

Wingo.....now there is a character in his own right!

Ahhh.... "The Adventures of Captain Methane"

[Fris B. Fairing]

Further to my post #24, closer examination of the RMH log books (OCT91-DEC93) for this aircraft reveals the following ops amongst many others:

JAN92 with the Dighem system at La Grande OR, Republic WA & Lincoln MT.

SEP92 geo survey at Fernley, Eureka, Ely, Pioche & Winnemucca NV.

APR-JUL93 ops at Talkeetna, AK culminating in a hard landing.

NOV93 with Aerodat geo system at Culiacan, Mexico.

Does anyone remember these ops? In the absence of a photo of N3597D, I'll be grateful for a colour photo of any RMH Lama.

Rgds

[sillohed]

Hey guys, we are looking for some pictures that show the RMH paint scheme on the old Lama's. I know there wasn't a lot to paint but if you have anything please post here or send them to me at [email protected]. A museum is trying to restore an old RMH machine for display and they would like for it to be as authentic as possible. Many thanks for any help you can give us.:D

[unstable load]

Did the Lama STC for the PT-6 ever get into production?
I believe it was done by AeroProducts International back in the early 90's.

[simon beck]

Anyone remember the Bell 204 RMH had that had a window bulge
on the port side pilots door?

[fly911]

Wingo.....now there is a character in his own right!
Dorcey, Huey pilot from the movie "The Twilight Zone" has several books out, but "Wind Loggers" about his long line experiences is my favorite.

[Steve Samuels]

I worked as a flight medic on that BK. We flew out of NYC for about three years.
We here parked next to Colgates BK and they had a rotor snap because of the S76

[Steve Samuels]

Not true. I was a flight medic on NY117 BK. We started out of east 60th street and then went north after a couple of years. It was Colgates BK that had a rotor snap because of the DD of a S76.
A couple of years later that same bird lost a tail rotor and webt into the river. Pilots got out, not OK and three people drowned in the cabin because it had pneumaticly sealed doors that didnt pop off on impact

[Dan Foulds]

And still a great guy and great technician.

[DorceyWingo]

Ha! I remember when Chuck Smith's trim motor went away. He used a bungee cord to relieve some of the strain and flew it back to base for repairs. If you've never experienced the problem, you don't know what you've missed, ha ha!

Thanks for the memories!

Dorcey

[DorceyWingo]

Many thanks for the plug on one of my three books, Gordy!

Am enjoying the thread about RMH and the seismic days. For those of you who haven't read any of my nonfiction stories, I have elaborated about the Rocky Mountain seismic days and added my two cents worth regarding what was good and what was bad about that era. Yes, we lost some good pilots. I've saluted most of the logging pilots in my memoirs, hoping they are not soon forgotten.

"Wind Loggers" - 2015 Edition now available at Xlibris Publishing.

"The Rise and Fall of Captain Methane" - Award-winning autobiography.

"Captain Methane and his Finely Feathered Friends" - 2015 edition available at Xlibris Publishing.

Fun summer reading!

Cheers,

dw

[twinstar_ca]

Back in the late 80's, I was on HAI's EMS committee... Reid Griffin was the chair and he was with RMH at the time, if i remember correctly... Think he got into marketing with Aerospatiale... no idea where he is now...

[RMH80to84]

Were you ever at Bear River with Walt Tausch and Doug Farfel in 1980?

[Jeff Walker]

Hi All,


Wow! What memories this forum brings back.
I can't remember everyone I worked with, but they were all great guys.
I crewed quite a few types of aircraft, but mainly supported 214RM until I left in 84'


Here are a few: (Sorry for the misspellings)
Gary Norris, Wayne Forbes, Kurt Sawatzki, Bud Johnson, Brian Brennan, Morris Scott, Dave Fogowaga, The Burgermeister, Semi Lapho, Tom Lights, Mike Cunningham, Brad Warren, Kawalski, Brad Hassey, and the girls in the front office :), Tom Banks, .....


So many great people and only so many functioning brain cells....


Please update with more names.


To all the survivors, cheers! To all those who didn't, cheers and rip!


Jeff

[otterhoods]

Came upon this website looking for info about RMH...great site! I worked as a flight nurse with Lifeflight Southern Calif from 1980-83. Wonderful memories. Anyone know of Ted Cash, Pat Conway, Mike Brand? I believe Joe Sulac was killed in a hell crash in Hawaii, sorry to say.

John Hood
[email protected]

[Phil Kemp]

Sadly, Bryan Burr was killed in an accident back in October last year. Bryan ran the Aerologging side of the business, and I had some great adventures with him and some of the others in the Company. I always liked Bryan and his Father, Jim, and got on very well with both of them - some amazing experiences up in Alaska.

http://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/local/cedar-city/2017/10/08/alpine-man-dies-debris-dropped-brian-head-fire-burn-scar/744771001/

[Brad Bailey]

I was with company out of Provo then Rialto as mechanic. I think I worked full time for four years starting on the 47-soloy, and G3b. We laid fence posts across miles of Nevada cattle range land for BLM. Then had sharp shooters pick off wild wolfs by the hundreds to let cattle barrons be happy. My Bell 47's were a bloody mess. It was a sad use of my machines. Then a few years of laying Jug lines and explosives for seismic testing. Next I was called on the shortwave radio (yes) and Hans H asked me to urgently move my tools to Alaska due to another mechanic changed his mind. A Piper Seneca came in from Provo to pick me up. We had a abort take off and overrun into the tumble weed due to nose baggage door popped open on rotation and loose luggage went into left propeller. Anyway made it to Vegas for transfers up to Alaska (with all my desert clothing). Alaska contracts another three or four years. The first couple of years was for Houston oil and minerals. There was come core drilling rigs set up around Nome and Kotsubue and Bettles. Helicopters mobilized all the parts in sling nets and hauled out to drilling sites. It was 24-7. Good cooks in the large hoop tents and we ate quite good. Lots of bears coming into camp then going off again. One camp was set up in a river bed (flood plain). It rained and you guessed it flooded our camp tents etc. Another season we tagged Muskox heard. Another season we put floats on the Hughes 500D and using a massive early Global position computer that must have been the size of a microwave we dipped into nearly every pond on the north slope to bag and tag mud samples for mineral analysis (uranium search). My last season was border control to Canada. Yes a bunch of grunts with chainsaws clearcutting a swath to mark Alaska/Canada border. My pilots I recall were Bruce something, and Dirk Vanderhorn and a few others. .When I was based in Provo my next door neighbor was Marie Osmond. She kept her Personal Hughes 500 in the Provo Hangar. Also I recall one icy foggy morning an emergency call came in for a boater in distress not far from the hangar. It was a real quick prep and the Bell 206 was in air and off into the soup. Somehow our pilot picked up the boater and came back to ramp. The rotor blades and Tail blades were fully loaded with Rime Ice so lucky he made it back....

[Fris B. Fairing]

I hope everyone will forgive me for reposting my message from 5 years ago:

Please forgive me for crashing your thread but I thought you guys would like to know that a piece of your history has turned up in Australia. The Queensland Air Museum at Caloundra recently acquired SA315B Lama s/n 2575 which once served with Rocky Mountain Helicopters as N3597D.

We have the RMH log books from Oct 91 to Dec 93 but there are many gaps in the history so we will be very pleased to receive any anecdotes about her time with RMH. It seems that she did a lot of geophysical survey ranging as far afield as Alaska and Mexico. Above all does anyone have a photo of N3597D?

Does anyone have photos or anecdotes relating to this Lama?

[scottyjtm]

Hello to All RMH Alumni....
I started @ the 'Rock' in 81', was with them on and off thru to the end in 2003....
Someone mentioned Ted Cash.. I worked w/ Ted in Wyo with a 206 in 83'. Ted in a 206 if you believe that... I have picts to prove :)
ran into Doug Farfel several years ago (4 or 5) @ end of fire season in Boise .. he looked great. ran into some Siller guys this fire season 18' ( I took from our conversation
that Doug may have retired)...
Regarding N3597D... we took that to the arctic (ANWR) back in 88'... I do have several picts of that operation...
Larry Boyer ran the maintenance floor and later training in Provo... had some great laughs with him... I do not forget Him..
great times...
scott

[Fris B. Fairing]

scottyjtm
Photos of N3597D would be greatly appreciated please.
Rgds

[RMH80to84]

I started with RMH in 80 in Afton Wy. Spent the summer there then went to Bear River Service in the High Unitas and worked with Walt Tausch, Doug Farfel Skip Fisk and Bob Peterson -40 degrees many days. Moved down to Heber where several helicopter crews were working out of for the winter. Ted Cash was there Joe Moss was the manager of the pilots and Frank Harney was manager of the mechanics. A lot of good memories like flying with Doug Farfel NOE while he was rolling a cigarette. Sorry to hear about Skip Fisk he was a good friend and a great pilot. We were in Moab flying siesmic crews in the La Salles with the 205. Went out to picking up the juggies and the afternoon was a little warm and we couldn't get enough lite to get in the air. Skip said to tell the folks in the back to hang on and we hopped a coulple of times to get to the edge of a cliff then hopped once more over the side nosed it down and away we went. Great times with guys like Jack Buckley and many of the others already mentioned.

Jeff Marcroft

[BradRotorhead]

Long time no talky! Howdy Jeff!

[BradRotorhead]

Hello there! Brad Warren here. Great to read about some names of years past. Anyone still active on here? I did the seismic days all over Utah, Wyoming, Dakotas, Montana and more. Up in Alaska too. Some names I'm wondering about: Brad Larson, Jeff Alexander, Dale Sade, Bill Jahn, Dave McCoy, Clyde DeBell, Paul Banish, Bill Rodgers, Richard Just, Wayne Nielsen, Russ Bays, Doug Bays, Bill Ford. Cheers All

[RMH80to84]

Hi Brad. Yes it's been a long time what are up to now?

Jeff

[BradRotorhead]

I've been flying for Erickson for the last 28 years, currently construction department, some fires, and a lot of logging years ago. How about you?

[RMH80to84]

Went to work for Hughes Helicopters who got bought out by McDonnell Douglas who merged with Boeing in 97. Worked the Apache from the beginning until I retired in AZ.. Dan Woodcock and Scott Johnson are both down here. Doug Bays worked for Hughes for 4 or 5 years then he went back up north.

[nomorehelosforme]

Brad/Jeff, it’s great that you guys have reconnected but might suggest that you carry on your reconciliation via PM’s or exchange email addresses rather than on a public forum... just saying

[pants on fire...]

Really? Really, Mr., nomorehelosforme? Who put you in charge of this forum? If you don't like the content of the thread, then just don't read it rather than sitting here dispensing your personal opinion as it were some policy around here. Maybe if you stopped posting this kind of wasteful opinion on a public forum... just saying

[Steve Osborn]

Sorry to piggy back on this, but I am looking for anyone who may have any stories about working with my dad, Larry Boyer. He worked for Rocky Mountain Helicopters from the mid 1970's through his death in December of 2000. If you have any stories, please let me know.

Thanks
like many of us at Rocky that worked with Larry he was a great person to work with. He was very knowledgeable and had a great sense of humor. That was a big help on those really busy days and made them far better for all of us. I, like many others had high respect for him. And he is truly missed.

[RMH80to84]

Brad/Jeff, it’s great that you guys have reconnected but might suggest that you carry on your reconciliation via PM’s or exchange email addresses rather than on a public forum... just saying
I only found this network by accident a couple of years ago and I don't get on it very often. Many of the names mentioned in this forum I knew and worked with over thirty years ago. When I first read the start of this forum it said

"I start this Thread to talk with you guys about RMH Helicopters. It would be great if we could share pictures, good memories and some stories."

I didn't see any thing about not reconnecting with others who you had worked with and are still around.

[RMH80to84]

Sorry to piggy back on this, but I am looking for anyone who may have any stories about working with my dad, Larry Boyer. He worked for Rocky Mountain Helicopters from the mid 1970's through his death in December of 2000. If you have any stories, please let me know.

Thanks
I knew your father in the early 80's. I was in the field a lot but I would get back to Provo for brief periods. Your father was a true professional and I truly enjoyed talking with him. He like many others were what made Rocky a great place to work.

Jeff Marcroft

[SkyCh0ppers1]

Hello. I worked for Sky Choppers in 1976. I was support for a 206B in Grand Junction, CO that was on lease to BLM that summer, providing firefighting support - Helitac team. I knew a lot of the guys there. I remember a pilot named Bruce White who was sadly lost that summer, flew into a wire in a Bell 47. I've been trying to find out what happened to the pilot that I worked with that summer, Bob Scarborough. He was a pilot in Nam and I've searched a number of databases for him. Any info about where he might be or might have gone would greatly appreciated. I'd love to reconnect if possible. Thanks for your help!

Bob Salyers

[Morris Scott]

I think we had this ship on our sesmic crew we were based in Coalville UT and our crew was comprised of two lamas. Pilots Tim Norton, Pete Hendon, Tom Kupcho ( relief ) Sid King ( relief ) Mechanics were Jack Buckley, Richard Drazil, Dennis Bergy was swamper. we reported to Al Nowacki out of Provo.

It was a great company with three divisions, sesmic, heavy lift and EMS.

Please forgive me for crashing your thread but I thought you guys would like to know that a piece of your history has turned up in Australia. The Queensland Air Museum at Caloundra recently acquired SA315B Lama s/n 2575 which once served with Rocky Mountain Helicopters as N3597D.

We have the RMH log books from Oct 91 to Dec 93 but there are many gaps in the history so we will be very pleased to receive any anecdotes about her time with RMH. It seems that she did a lot of geophysical survey ranging as far afield as Alaska and Mexico. Above all does anyone have a photo of N3597D?

[scottyjtm]

Fris B....
Somewhat untimely.. but nevertheless.
I've located (don't want to rush a good thing) those dozen pics of the arctic operation with N3597D.. If you are still interested in them let me know .. I have them on a micro sd card .. could send / mail to wherever... whatever is easiest.
I'm still running around pretty busy, but if you are still interested I can move on it...
scott still wandering / wondering just the mechanic

[Prok1979]

Hello to All RMH Alumni....
I started @ the 'Rock' in 81', was with them on and off thru to the end in 2003....
Someone mentioned Ted Cash.. I worked w/ Ted in Wyo with a 206 in 83'. Ted in a 206 if you believe that... I have picts to prove :)
ran into Doug Farfel several years ago (4 or 5) @ end of fire season in Boise .. he looked great. ran into some Siller guys this fire season 18' ( I took from our conversation
that Doug may have retired)...
Regarding N3597D... we took that to the arctic (ANWR) back in 88'... I do have several picts of that operation...
Larry Boyer ran the maintenance floor and later training in Provo... had some great laughs with him... I do not forget Him..
great times...
scott


I have an old picture of a downed RM helicopter with a mechanic in the pic. Picture is from 1981 if you would like for me to post?

[R_Scarbrough]

Bob, Its been a while, drop me a line when you get a chance.
Robert Scarbrough
[email protected]


Hello. I worked for Sky Choppers in 1976. I was support for a 206B in Grand Junction, CO that was on lease to BLM that summer, providing firefighting support - Helitac team. I knew a lot of the guys there. I remember a pilot named Bruce White who was sadly lost that summer, flew into a wire in a Bell 47. I've been trying to find out what happened to the pilot that I worked with that summer, Bob Scarborough. He was a pilot in Nam and I've searched a number of databases for him. Any info about where he might be or might have gone would greatly appreciated. I'd love to reconnect if possible. Thanks for your help!

Bob Salyers

[R_Scarbrough]

Bob, Its been a while, drop me a line when you get a chance.
Robert Scarbrough
[email protected]

[Chuck Beatty]

I worked at the completion center in Provo from May 1990 until we all got layer off in ‘93 or ‘94. Mark Martens was DOM. Some names I remember.. John mulbach, Kelly Queensberry. I have lots of pics of the aircraft I worked on during that time. I will try and dig them up. Most of these posts are from before my time but fun to read nonetheless. Wish I could remember some more names 🤦‍♀️
I have great memories of my time working there. Running the fuel truck for the buffalo roundup, unboxing a bell 222 from a container from Japan, reconstructing the crashed Bell 214 from Columbia, prepping and striping BKs for paint. I have pictures of all of it. I’ll post them here as I can. Was fun to find this!

[Chuck Beatty]

I ran the S61 logging operation in Alaska from 1990 to 1993. Great outfit and had some really great people there. I thoroughly enjoyed my time there and we had some great fun working all through SE Alaska. The bankruptcy in 1993 ended the operation, but RMH came out of it as a purely EMS operation and was finally sold to Air Methods.

Met some great people while I worked there, and still stay in touch with lots of them.

They had some great seismic and utility operations, and a great in-house capability to modify and complete machines for EMS and other applications. I learned to love the Lama while working there!

phil.. I was on the crew that built a 214 that went up that way around 1992. She came in on a flatbed covered in road grit and flew up to Alaska about 6 months later. I never worked up there myself but was good friends with John Mulbach. He was a mechanic up there closer to the end. I heard that ship crashed not long after that. Can you confirm?

[learaviator]

Ahhh! A fellow Rocky Dude!

Rocky was one of the best helicopter company I have ever worked for! I joined in 1998 in Tucson, AZ as a mechanic. I was called, "Pete the Mechanic!"

An EMS base called Air Care at the time. BK117, BO-105CBS, and a Cessna 441. Then later the fleet were replaced with Astars and called themselves, LifeNet Arizona.

Oh, what great times! Todd McKiney, Joe Foster, and Jeremy Danforth were the maintenance guys I worked with. The people I worked with were great to work with.

I left RMH in late 2000 to work on a EMS Bell 407. Yep, I am still here on the 407's. Best aircraft I have ever worked on.

What about you? Who, what, where were you at Rocky?


Pete
I worked in Tucson for Rocky flying the Conquest in 1991 and 1992. Second time I worked for them. I also worked in the field for them (Alpine, Afton, Coalville) in 1980 and 1981 on 214's and 500's during the oil seismic days. Great company, nothing but good memories.

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[QUOTE=Thebell;6130149]I start this Thread to talk with you guys about RMH Helicopters. It would be great if we could share pictures, good memories and some stories.

wondering if any of you knew my grandpa Leon A Bradford

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I delivered a Jet Ranger from the east coast to Rocky Mountain Helicopters, sometime in 1975. Might have been brokered by Helicopter Associates. I went through Army flight school with Larry Doll. Anyone know what's become of him?