Hi Manky
Never spent much time in Gladstone.
Helicopter Utilities/Airfast operated 206s there in the 60s, then I think Helitrans. As Helitrans had Alouettes, that must have been theirs. They also had a S62 which Brian E put in the water, closely followed by a 206! Later a Bell 214St, not to mention a S76!!!! Lloyds took over with 206s and maybe a 412 although CASA gave them some problems about pad sizes for OEI rejects.
Airfast had a double fatality when the pilot and island manager took off one night in a 206 in response to some emergency flares let off by some stupid boaties. Flew into the sea at full speed. Lloyds also had a fatality in a 206 about 1992.
Memory bank failing!!!
