Nick: your wrong again on the regs!
Let me give you one example:
What is that on the door??? N190LA? OHHHHH yes that is an FAA registration number.
Hmmmm don't see too many of those on the Army ships????
Sikorsky has built hundreds of these ships. Do you think they really need to make money off 2 or 3 in LA??? There is more to the story here.
They don't have enough work to keep them busy so guess what? They have more EMS flights than they do fire missions now. So much for EMS in that area.