Remarks: Close cropped front Port side view of S-64F Skycrane N179AC, Named 'Elvis' (Code 744) Helitack 341, being closely inspected by visitors, before a water bombing demo at Avalon Victoria in Feb 2001. This type of Fire-Fighting helicopter was needed in Canberra in the week before the Firestorm on 18Jan2003. The Tenth Anniversary of this bushfire disaster was commemorated in Canberra on 18Jan2013. Low res photo. (Pentax Espio 110 camera).
Remarks: Close-cropped rear Stbd view of S-64F Skycrane N179AC, Named 'Elvis' (Code 744) Helitack 341, being closely inspected by visitors, before a water bombing demo at Avalon Victoria in Feb 2001. (There are five of these remarkable helicopters in Australia in the 2012/13 Fire Season, with N179AC based at Essendon this year.) This type of Fire-Fighting helicopter was needed in Canberra in the week before the Firestorm on 18Jan2003. The Tenth Anniversary of this bushfire disaster was commemorated in Canberra on 18Jan2013. Low res photo. (Pentax Espio 110 camera).
Remarks: Erickson was established in 1971 in Central Point, Oregon by Jack Erickson. Originally the Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane, the type certification and manufacturing rights for the S-64 were purchased from Sikorsky Aircraft by Erickson Air-Crane in 1992. Since that time, Erickson Air-Crane has become the manufacturer and world's largest operator of S-64 Aircranes and has made over 1,350 changes to the airframe, instrumentation, and payload capabilities of the helicopter.
Here's "Annie" sitting at hangar 4 at Lunken on a beautiful sunny afternoon about 30 minutes before sunset, and in this area to do some work in downtown Cincinnati at the Paul Brown football stadium.
