Ciao Dennisimo!
Re: The Dancer, the records state:
1) Feb '71 - Douglas Bunn (Hickstead Jumping Grounds)
2) Jan '79 - Alan Mann
3) Sept '80 - Team Lotus (Colin Chapman)
4) Apr '83 - Skyline Helicopters
5) Sep '83 - Dennis Smith, Hawridge Court, Bucks
6) Jan '85 - Neville Hutchings, Mansfield, Notts
I assumed that Dennis Smith was perhaps one of the Slykine partners - either way from Dennis she seems (on the record at least) to have been sold straight to Hutchings!
.. and seem to recall she was the first 206 I'd seen with the Collins 841H autopilot fitted.
Followed just a couple of months later by another 206 you bought which
also had a Collins 3 axis fitted .. G-TALY!
She spent the whole of the Christmas break parked in my garden on Mill Hill ..
And the next year the Colonel and I followed suit collecting G-TALY (now G-CSKY) before Chirstmas and returning her after the new year. In fact, that was the Colonel's last Christmas in the UK.
Island Helicopter Corp.
FH100, were Island the predecessor to NYH and do you recall these craft?
An Island Helicopters Bell 206L over New York (date unknown but presumably c. 1979)
An Island Helicopters SA360C N360CP refuells at East 34th Street Heliport in August 1979