It’s great to see all the memories of helicopter owners ofthe past, but I wonder if anyone can shed any light on a name that has beenmentioned in passing in this thread, but who seems to have been a long termoperator: A Smith (Culcheth) Ltd.
Over a twenty year period, running 1968 to 1978, his company had successively: G-AWDU Brantly B2B, G-AVTE & G-AZVN JetRangers andfinally G-BBHV Gazelle.
My guess is that the company was a nominee and not the actualowner. Interestingly there have been 3attempts by the authorities to strike the company from the Companies House registerbut three times it has been reinstated even though there are no directors etc. The address in G-INFO doesn’t help either; it was originally a brewerybut that closed in the 1950s.
Surely the owner of these a/c must have been someone notableand a real enthusiast for helicopter flight, but who?