Early Aberdeen
When I started at Aberdeen in 1971 as a co-pilot, there was just VR-BDU which became G-AZNE later ditched by Russ Smith and John McGregor (sadly both no longer with us) off the Glomar North Sea. The second S61 was G-AZDC, the Elivie rebuild carried out at Redhill which arrived around 25 Jan 1972. That was about the time that the first Bristow hangar was finished. Before that, most maintenance was done outside and the office/crew room/check-in was the old RAF Dyce Station Headquarters building. Aah, the days of Decca plots and Spilsbury Tindall HF aerial tuning! Bill Law, Gabby Gaard, Bob Balls and even Alastair Gordon. Mike Green was the only other co-pilot in the very early days, if I remember correctly.