Originally Posted by
will fly for food 06
hello,
Having spent some of my time hanging from wires and flying in big yellow helicopters and seeing how old the mk3s are getting. I was wondering what life was left in the civilian S61s? Being that some of them have been flying for a very long time too. Plus if the S92 was a good replacement and how much do they go for?
Thanks in advance.
I do know an s61 flying SAR out of waterford in Ireland (ex Bristow) machine that had over 43000 airframe hours up over ayear ago, and add to that its usual 50 hour monthly flying rate and you have a high time current machine, as far as I am aware the only s61 in the UK that exceed this total is the s61 used on the Scilly Isles passenger service out of penzance in cornwall, it does somewhere in the region of 1300 hours annually.