S76A "Spirit"
Named by Adolph Plennenfish Jr., the winner of a company-wide contest to
name the S-76 held around 1978. Use of the name was discontinued by October 1981
due to religious sensitivities in some South American countries and a lawsuit by Spirit
Airways of California claiming trademark infringement. All official references to the
name Spirit were purged from the field. S-76 logo stickers were provided to operators
to affix to their maintenance manual and IPC binders, covering the old Spirit logo.