HeliTrans was a minute company compared to HUPL!
it must have been lucky to escape being owned by Airfast. maybe the only oz company that wasn't.
type HUPL or Airfast into Bing, up comes a heap of stories about some of the favourite aircraft, like the Beagle 206 for instance. Been trying to remember the name of the chief pilot F/W. Vic someone maybe?? totally revered. Used to get that thing out of the shortest strips.
other stories about the old Duke, who was a constant visitor to HUPL sites.
type helitrans into bing , and up comes some joy flight mob from the states.
i remember the demise of airfast very well. something to do with a dude named Goff, who when he came to power, inside 24 hours all mineral exploration inside OZ was shut down. 57 machines if I remember rightly, mostly 47's. Kewanee Oil (spelling?) stayed a little longer, then gave up after a week or so, and sent all of their ground machinery to their one land asset, Delamere station NT. The manager, thought it was xmas.
Now we seem to be seeing a De-ja-vu. same mob as Goff, trying to do it all over again. a mining super tax, huh? back to Canada and South Africa, amongst other places, will go the helicopters.