Most Hours on an R22/type

[jemax]

I am just finishing off my FAA IR training in Arizona, the outfit I am doing it with work their machines damn hard. The IFR R22 I was flying today has 9500 hours, it's a 2001 machine and some of the VFR machines have 12000 hours.
This means rebuliding them every 12-18 months.

Anyone know of any worked harder than that, or other machines for that matter.

Obviously begs the old "I've had this broom for 20 years, 8 new brushes and 7 new handles" question though!

[tu154]

Bored are we?

[Droopystop]

Some of the North Sea machines have over 30,000 hours on them

[Gaseous]

Pulled from a post on the Enstrom thread.

There is said to be an enstrom flying with a police organisation in the usa with 37,000 hrs on some major componets (including main rotor blades)

Try that with a set of 22 blades! (not literally you Aussies!)

[STL206]

The way robinson overhauls work the only original parts on those machines are probably just data plates.

[rudestuff]

I once flew a 206 which had blades from 1956 - from a UH-1 presumably.

[whopwhop]

Id like to see a C20 spin those blades..........

[Fareastdriver]

Some of the North Sea machines have over 30,000 hours on them

They are the Super Pumas, you should try the S61s

[wiisp]

Hello all of u,
OY-HAF, S 61 from Air Greenland passed 40 000 hrs this season..
fly safe..