As Oogle asked in the beginning about the Firehawk, I believe it was looked at very favourably here in Australia at one stage as a good medium helo replacement as most Firebombers here in oz are multi role in that they must be able to carry and rappel fire crews and drop water with the belly tank, currently the main types are 212's with Conair tanks ,(good load, good drop force of water) and 412's with simplex tanks, for the medium role and AS350 B3's for the light role, with the occasional 214B, UH1H, 205, BK117 (useless!) , S61 , Mi8, and Skycranes, but of all of these the S61 is old ,UH1H,Mi8, 214B and Skycrane can not carry pax.(Ex mil or restricted use). and unfortunatly the Firehawk falls into the restricted catagory here as it's based on the S70 A a military machine (with T700's), If you could get an S70 C Firehawk with CT7's approved to do the same job as the S70 A Firehawk (High load cycles!!) you would have a winner (and maintained to a civil style maintenance system) but while the Firehawk is military airframe based it won't fill the multi role requirement like a 205/212/412, despite being less capable