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Old 20th Feb 2006, 20:51
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AussieO2
 
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VH-FRB Helio H-250 Courier MkII, c/n 2540 ex N6330V
Registered 27.01.1967 to Franciscan Mission, Aitape.
To P2-FRB 14.11.1974.
Crashed 28.05.1976 at Mount Hagen.
Restored and re-registered as P2-BOX (I do not have date), was with PNG Aviation Services P/L, Boroko.
Sold and registered to E. H. Mills, Gladstone, Tasmania as VH-LIW on 27.11.1990.

VH-KTY Helio H-295 Super Courier, c/n 1430 ex N6476V
Registered 16.07.1970 to P. T. Russell, Dalkeith, WA
Accident (broke back) 20.08.1970
Russell sold it to HDeH 24.09.1975 and so on until
31.03.1997, crashed at Lake Tilpa, NSW.

From memory, the super courier had a longer fuse and a small round window added. Airfast/Helicopter Utilities has 2 as well VH-UND and UNF.

Nice aircraft. Then they put a turbine in it and called it a Stallion.
Big customer was Air America. A 'nice' airline who operated in S/E Asia.
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