Originally Posted by
gulliBell
That works out at only 148 hours flown per year per helicopter on average. Not a very high utilization rate.
Probably not unusual though.
Afaik, the military do not use their planes that much, the high time B-52 has only about 25,000 hours after 60 years of service. Similarly, the life of fast jets usually only a few thousand hours over a few decades, so only hundreds of hours per year.