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Queen Charlotte Helicopters Hughes 500D C-??CA at Anthony Island in British Columbia (Date unknown)


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[500 Fan]

Nice 500 photos Sav, thanks for posting. Both the 500D and the Indonesian 500Cs are in standard Hughes factory paint scheme. Both very simple and elegant....

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Kenya's first Anti-Poaching Unit was run by the late Ted Goss with whom I used to drink tea at Wilson Airport in Nairobi in the mid-80's. I would wander...

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Elipix, do you have any photos of G-HEWS, a 'D' model which lived in Aberdeen for a time when she belonged to a local company Apex Tubulars?
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[500 Fan]

Sav, thanks for the info and photos of the Kenyan 500s. The photo of 5Y-AYV is very welcome and confirms the information I have heard previously about...

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Just as well that we keep alive the memory of those intrepid deer hunters!


During my time in PNG I was surrounded by Kiwis who rarely...

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More classic Hughes in Africa ..


Viking Helicopters Hughes 500C C-GOEC (cn 34-0578S), Ethiopia early 1980's


C-GOEC...

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Alpenair Hughes 500D OE-KXI (cn 21-0893D) flying equipment for a local TV company during the 1991 World Ski Championships held in Saalbach, Austria and...

[500 Fan]

Further to the photos of Viking Helicopters 500Cs, here are two interesting albums of photos featuring float-equipped 500s on geological surveys in Canada....

[Savoia]

Some nice photos there 500 Fan!

I think this may have been a Viking bird:


Hughes 500C C-GAED as seen in Canada c.1974...

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YOH-6A Cayuse 62-4213 as seen at Le Bourget on 19th June 1965 (Photo: RA Scholefield)

Archive footage (no sound sadly) of OH-6A's...

[500 Fan]

Thanks for that photo of -213, Sav. 62-4213 might possibly have held the most FAI World Records at any one time for a single airframe (23). Some still...

[500 Fan]

J have been researching the history of the various H-6 and H500 prototypes from 1963 to the present and the original YOH-6 group of prototypes were involved...

[Savoia]

500 Fan: Sounds wonderful! We look forward to reading about the celebrated exploits of the 'flying egg' in the times ahead.

Record Breaking...

[500 Fan]

Hi Sav. I have had the immense pleasure of flying N239MY but it wasn't me flying that particular day.

The 500 is a popular civilian machine...