Registration / Serial:N31853
Aircraft Original Type:Bell 214
Aircraft Generic Type:Bell 214ST SuperTransport
Aircraft Version:Bell 214ST SuperTransport
C/n (msn):28135
City / Airport:New Orleans - Lakefront (KNEW / NEW)Map
Region / Country:Louisiana, United States
Event:HAI Heli-Expo 1985
Photo Date:16 January 1985
Photo by:Kenneth I. SwartzContact
Photo ID:524044Submit Correction
View count: 132
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.
Registration / Serial:N31853
Aircraft Version:Bell 214ST SuperTransport
C/n (msn):28135
City / Airport:New Orleans - Lakefront (KNEW / NEW)Map
Region / Country:Louisiana, United States
Photo Date:16 January 1985
Photo by:Kenneth I. SwartzContact
Registration / Serial:N31853
Aircraft Original Type:Bell 214
Aircraft Generic Type:Bell 214ST SuperTransport
Aircraft Version:Bell 214ST SuperTransport
C/n (msn):28135
City / Airport:New Orleans - Lakefront (KNEW / NEW)Map
Region / Country:Louisiana, United States
Event:HAI Heli-Expo 1985
Photo Date:16 January 1985
Photo by:Kenneth I. SwartzContact
Photo ID:524044Submit Correction
View count: 132
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.
Registration / Serial:N31853
Aircraft Version:Bell 214ST SuperTransport
C/n (msn):28135
City / Airport:New Orleans - Lakefront (KNEW / NEW)Map
Region / Country:Louisiana, United States
Photo Date:16 January 1985
Photo by:Kenneth I. SwartzContact