N724HT, one of the eyecatcher at the Verticon 2025 event, was airlifted to Greece in late April 2025 for the fire season, where it mainly flew out of Rhodos. McDermott operates the largest Bell 214 Series fleet, and has around a dozen single engine Bell 214B-1 Big Lifters and approx. the same number of the twin engine Bell 214ST Super Transport. N724HT is a 1988 built heli which till September 2018 was operated in Japan as JA9683 for the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Briefly became C-FHTS with Helicopter Transport Services Canada in 2019, then N724HT in July 2024.

Previously registered JA9683 and C-FHTS, N724HT is now with Australia's largest Heli-Aviation Company, McDermott Aviation. Having acquired the type certificate and remaining Bell 214ST stock from Erickson Air Crane, the company is planning to restart production of the big utility helicopter.