Nick
Are you paranoid? Amazing how you bring other manufacturers into every thread. Still so has SASless - brief summary "the S92 is like any other helicopter" but perhaps a bit better with spares that Agusta. How dissappointing for you. So much for those new certification rules and a Collier trophy. By the way: Where the 332L2s at Norsk not also doing 2000 hours per annum back in the late 90s? And 1500 hours is low time for any North Sea machine these days. Have a look at the oil price.
I fly 76s by the way. But I never believe the hype.
SASless
Suggest 'production' more likely than 'maintenance'.
From what I here ther are a lot of spares shortages on the 92. Though of course they could be down to the operator's spares forecasting too.