Originally Posted by
havick
There’s probably much better airframes sitting in the desert than clapped out QF airframes.
Also to fly them in the USA on any forestry contract or anything dept. of state, the aircraft can’t have any local EO’s they all have to be standard with STC’s.
That’s why you see a lot of N reg helicopters in Australia but not the other way.
Well, at about 15 years old they're hardly 'clapped out' but I get what you're saying, there are likely airframes in the desert that have fewer hours or cycles.