like ppheli said, when overseas they lease the local heli's to do work for them. for the kenya-leg, they get most of their machines from south-africa. and the whole mission flying up to nairobi is an amazing trip. i was at the rally over here in NZ and the amount of machines in the sky was just awesome. there was about 20 in the air on day one of the rally. kennith erikson just got his ppl (h) over here. nice guy. a friend of mine did his ground-school instruction.