Built in 1967, imported in 1993 and exported as PR-HRL in 2012. Oregon based as N620CK in 2023.

Previously with Los Angeles Airways 1966 - 73 (N304V), Okanagan Helicopters acquired this S-61L in 1973. Later re-named Canadian Helicopters, the aircraft was leased out in the '90s as N5368G and N266HL. Canadian Helicopters retired it in 2001.

The right landing gear collapsed while the helicopter was starting up. A ground crew member was seriously injured by debris. The helo was repaired and would eventually end up with Air Palace, a Korean firefighting operator, as HL9478. Note that Carson Helicopters had another N302Y, c/n 61472. Photo by: George Fry / Los Angeles Times

Helicopter company Los Angeles Airways started flying the mail from the roof of the large white Terminal Annex post office, to the left of Union Station and partly obscured by the high-rise City Hall - see photo 362455. The company started scheduled passenger services using S-55s in November 1954. The S-61L was introduced on 1 March 1962, this being the S-61L prototype. The cheatline is orange and black. N300Y crashed on a flight from LAX to Disneyland in Anaheim in 1968 and all 21 people on board were killed. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Viewed from the cruise ship "Jewel of the Seas". Owned by Carson Helicopters, but carries the logo of MAG Aerospace.

Viewed from the cruise ship "Jewel of the Seas"

Now owned by Vancouver Island Helicopters, but still wearing the brilliant colors of its previous owner - Canadian Helicopters.

Later sold in Canada to Okanagan Helicopters.

picture by Patrick Martin

Flying first with New York Airways from 1968 - 1977, this S-61 moved to Canada around 1979 for Okanagan. Later flying with Canadian Helicopters, Coulson Aircrane and Sunwest Helicopters, there was also a 2 year stint with the State of Utah (N614RM) from March 1994 - 1996 . After returning from the USA the helicopter received the HeliPro Shortsky conversion which shortened the fuselage by 50 inches and improved the lifting capability by 1,000 lbs. Sold to Carson Helicopters as N448JS in 2011.

NYA offered scheduled helicopter service from atop the Pan Am Building in Midtown Manhattan to airports in the area. Founded in 1949, an accident in 1977 on top of the Pan Am building precipitated the closure of this heliport; the airline stopped operating two years later. This S-61 was later N614RM and C-GJDR, now flying logging operations with Sunwest helicopters in rebuilt shortened form.