Microflite's VH-JJR over Lake Hume on a fire just up the road from home today.

This Eagle Single started life as a twin-engine Bell 212 and flew in the US, Mexico and Colombia before it was purchased by Eagle Copters of Calgary, AB, Canada in Oct. 2004 and became C-FBWU. During 2007, it was converted to an Eagle Single using a company STC which saw a single Honeywell T53-17BCV replacing the P&WC PT6T TwinPac engine and other enhancements made to the structure, avionics and systems. It was registered to Day & Johnston Helic. as C-GWDJ just prior to HAI Heli-Expo 2008. Later sold to Wilderness Helic. in 2011 and exported to Lohman Helicopter in Oregon as N316LH in 2016.

Inside MIACO's hangar.

This 1975 built Bell 212 was first registered as N27664 with Evergreen Equity INC, then went on to Australia as VH-CRU [2], then back to N27664 before being operated in Indonesia as PK-TSF, PK-BRV and finally as PK-USS with Satria Helicopter (note titles on the cowling in this photo). It was written off after an accident on September 17, 2020, when it crashed into a river bed an altitude of 4'700 meters whilst being leased to / operated by National Utility Helicopters (NUH). Fortunately, all three people on board survived the accident.

In 1986, the Japanese Maritime Safety Agency patrol boat Settsu sailed to Canada to attend Expo 86 in Vancouver, BC. While in Vancouver, the ship based Bell 212, JA9575, participated in a helicopter flypast of the Expo 86 site during Search & Rescue week. It's seen landing at the Canadian Coast Guard heliport at Kitsilano Beach. The heliport was later destroyed in a fire. This 212 was exported to Canada in 2015 and converted by Eagle Copters to a Eagle Single with the P&WC TwinPac replaced by a single Honeywell T5317A. It was flown by Yellowhead Helicopters as C-GJYH and is now N377PA.

Bell 212 of the Argentinian Air Force Flight Unit in maintenance, part of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus responsible of the demilitarised zone between the North and South of Cyprus. Carries Argentinian AF serial H-84 on port side and UN Code UNO-025.

Associated Helicopters was the first helicopter company established in Alberta with one Bell 47 in 1950. Pictured is Bell 212 C-GAHD bought in 1974. Associated was purchased by Okanagan Helicopters in 1977, but remained operating as a separate company until Okanagan was merged with Viking Helicopters, Toronto Helicopters and Sealand Helicopters by 1989. This Bell 212 continued with the new company operated as Canadian Helicopters Limited where it is still current at the time of uploading.

Alpine Helicopters Bell 212 returning at dusk after a long day of fire fighting.