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1980 Sikorsky S-76A Mk. II, c/n 760074, C-GHJW, Helijet International starting engines on tarmac adjacent to Helijet International’s head office, 5911 Airport Road South, at South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada on Friday, January 18, 2013 at 11:09 PST
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1980 Sikorsky S-76A Mk. II, c/n 760074, C-GHJW, Helijet International (Helijet International Inc.), South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada, based at South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR)
- titled HeliJet
- powered by two 650-shp Allison 250-C30S free turbine turboshaft engines with fully-articulated four-blade main rotor and port side four-blade anti-torque tail rotor
- crew of two (pilot and co-pilot), 12 passengers, all-weather medium-size air taxi
- retractable tricycle landing gear
- built by Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, Connecticut), Stratford, Connecticut, USA at Stratford, Connecticut
- built as S-76A, powered by two 557-shp Allison 250-C30 free turbine turboshaft engines with fully-articulated four-blade main rotor and port side four-blade anti-torque tail rotor
- N1547F, further details unknown
- N586C, further details unknown but cancelled on December 1, 1989
- imported in 1989
- C-GHJW, Helijet Airways (Helijet Airways Inc.), South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada on December 7, 1989 and cancelled on May 9, 2000
- Helijet Airways (Helijet Airways Inc.) renamed as Helijet International (Helijet International Inc.)
- registered to Helijet International on May 9, 2000
- converted to S-76A Mk. II, re-engined and avionics upgrade
- world’s highest flight time S-76 airframe of tt 37,025 hours in February 2012
- active
[Nikon Coolpix L20 point-and-shoot 10 MP digital camera, Nikkor 38–136-mm f/3.1–6.7 lens, s/n 51002451]
© Copyright photograph by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, January 2013
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