| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | N31853 |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Bell 214 |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Bell 214ST SuperTransport |
| Aircraft Version: | Bell 214ST SuperTransport |
| C/n (msn): | 28135 |
| Location | |
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| City / Airport: | New Orleans - LakefrontMap |
| Region / Country: | Louisiana, United States |
| Airport Codes: | ICAO: KNEW IATA: NEW Local: NEW Other: - |
| Event: | HAI Heli-Expo 1985 |
| Photo Date: | 16 January 1985 |
| Photo by: | Kenneth I. Swartz |
| Photo ID: | 524044 |
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Bell 214ST N31853 was one of several helicopters based at New Orleans Lakefront Airport for flight demos during the HAI Heli-Expo 1985 which was held at the downtown convention center. It's painted in the new Air Logistics colours. Bell later took N31853 on an Europe sales tour in 1985 that included the Paris Air Show. It then joined Helikopter Service in Norway as LN-OML and became the SAR helicopter based on the Statfjord B platform. On 3 October 1990 it was searching for a missing seaweed trawler in a bad storm near Askvoll in the Sogn area when it hit a mountain on Alden Island. 5 killed. This photo is copyright © Kenneth I. Swartz, and may not be used or published in any way without permission. It was added on 30 November 2022, and has since been viewed 132 times. |