love these Irish Helicopters pictures, flew with Sean Oakes in both that alouette 2 and the bolkow. I know he is long retired now. I dont suppose anybody had a pic of the original Irish Helicopters bolkow EI-AWB in the green and white colour scheme? Later returned to bristow or bond and reverted to G-AZOM. After that came bolkow EI-BDI lost off Donegal, before finally EI-BLD which is currently up for sale.
They must be fairly early photographs bcause of the bolkow radome, and the pop out floats on the Jet Ranger EI-BKT. Which of the 212's is it, I assume its BFH?
Three out of four of these aircraft have since had accidents, AUI later became G-FILM and crashed with fatalities and was written off, I beleive they hit wires in a valley in some far flung foreign parts, BFH crashed with fatilities in Nigeria, noted earlier in this thread, and BLD had that incident with windshear at the Bailey where she splayed her skids but was returned to service. The report on that incident found no fault on the part of the pilot, but it was just one of those things that could not be recovered from.
Jet ranger EI-BKT became G-SKII and either last year or the the start of this year was up for sale with just over 10000 airframe hours, for £230000 with an overhaul.