ex N35978, w/o 27. March 2000

Registered in August 1995.

Crashed near Daru on March 24, 1999. Nigel Apperley photo

Pictured as delivered to Northern Mountain Helicopters, this Lycoming LTS-101 powered Astar was later modified to an AS350B Ecureuil with a more reliable Turbomeca Arriel engine and later an AS350B2. Leaving Canada in 2001, it carried registrations of G-BXNI, PT-YJC and CS-HFI. It's been current with Heliportugal as CS-HFI since 2017.

This Astar was with Sealand Helicopters from 1981 until it was wrecked when it crashed into trees during an engine test at Goose Bay/NL on 31 October 1983. Deleted from the Canadian register in July 1988. Based in St. John's, Newfoundland , Sealand was a rare sight in British Columbia at this time. With other investors, Sealand's owner Craig Dobbin would form Canadian Holding Company and buy Okanagan Helicopters, Viking Helicopters and Toronto Helicopters in 1987 and merge them with Sealand to form CHC Helicopters.

Taking off on another joy flight. One of a number of helicopters making joy flights at what was then the Clipsal 500 car race weekend.

Operated by Canadian Helicopters Eastern.

Home base for this machine is Whitecourt Alberta

Parked at Moorabbin Airport

Parked in a vineyard in the McLaren Vale, an internationally renowned wine-producing region

Taking off from Parafield Airport

Powers Air AS350 was imported as N5768B. It suffered a non-fatal crash February 23, 1994 with another operator in the Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii. The helicopter was written off when it was caught in a down draft at high altitude. An attempt was made to turn away from a mountain, but there was insufficient power to prevent contact with the ground.