I Hear A Huey Popping!

[Blackmac]

Does anybody know what company brought the first B204B's into Canada and for what purpose??????

 

I do.

 

 

Cheers, Don

[06HeliMAN]

Me too! Wish the R22 sounded as cool! Would not even consider transitioning if it did

[volition]

:PThe only thing I know about the B204b, is that it was the civilian version of the huey back in the 60's...way before my time!!

[06HeliMAN]

Don't know who was first, but surely the reason is obvious; to promote the growth of helicopter pilots in canada. The Huey sound is good at this. It certainly got me

[volition]

I think it was use in the canadian artic for geology in 1966...but the company is still a mystery.

[twinstar_ca]

was it not autair, don, and brought in for servicing the dew line to replace the vertols??

[cyclic monkey]

I don't know why people bought helicopters back then,

but a recent press release says now they do it to

"realize synergies and economies of scale.....going forward".

 

What a load of monkey dung.

Why can't people speak plain English anymore ??

Just like this fine lunch item.........

[47G]

Does anybody know what company brought the first B204B's into Canada and for what purpose??????

 

I do.

Cheers, Don

Would that have been Bullock Helicopters??

[cap]

I'll take a crack at this Don, although if I remember correctly, that was about the time of my coming back to the "World" and starting up again on the civilian side. Give me a break on this because half of the present world wasn't born yet........BUT you and I were already "imbibing".

 

The first one I know of was CF-AHB which was a 204 with a Gnome engine in it and it looked weird to me because the tail-pipe exited on the rear-side of the engine cowling and not the rear as most know it. If I also remember correctly, it burned to the ground during a refuelling. Seems to me that it hadn't been in country all that long before that happened. All of the foregoing was the result of Autair Helicopters of St. Jean, PQ, owned by Power Corp. and one of the best darn helicopter companies that ever existed.......in my humble opinion.

 

The reason for the purchase was some contract in the Arctic as I recall. Again, the memory fades for the reasons stated above. Unless John Schultz or Oddly Black jump in here to answer your question, I'm afraid that mine may have to suffice :lol:. The time-frame on all this would have to be about '66-'67. I may be out a bit here because part of what I related already I was there to witness and the rest pre-dated me by a very short time-frame.

[volition]

Yea, we have the date and place, if you read the previous post, we need to confirm the company now!!!