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Old 18th Feb 2010, 08:17
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By George
 
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I am not sure when Nicholas finished up, mid eighties at a guess. They had the Air Ambulance contract in the sixties using two B50's ( Twin Bonanzas). In 1970 one of them collided with a Bell 47 over the Moorabbin Town Hall. Peter Stone was the pilot and I think the helicopter pilot was a Brian Cruckshank, sadly all killed. They lost the contract in '71 to Executives at EN. During the seventies they had a traffic patrol using a 172 and Horse-Race charters using two 310's and a 402. They would quite often cross-hire pilots and I flew a few trips for them. Rob Moss and his off-sider 'Jack' were terrific blokes, very dry and great to work for. One strange job they had was counting the number of people fishing around the Bairnsdale Lake District for the Fisheries and Wildlife Department. All very low level and legal. I did it for them once, great fun, even found a couple of lovers in the sand dunes, not counted of course as they were not fishing. Very amusing.
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