Originally Posted by
bolkow
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.
British International had two airframes IC and JL that broke the 40000 hours in the late 90's not sure if they're still gracing the skies if they are I think BIH from Penzance would own them possibly flying their Falklands contract now?