Originally Posted by
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!
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?