The Sikorsky S-61L prototype pictured over the Los Angeles City Hall and Union Station. Having started scheduled passenger helicopter services in November 1954, LA Airways introduced the S-61 on 1 March 1962. 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"

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