*G-ASNL Sikorsky S-61N British Airways --- Penzance Heliport 4-8-82
Penzance Heliport in the days when schedule flights to The Scilly Isle by British Airways later British International Helicopters were operated.
Sevices ceased in 2012 due high costs and falling passenger numbers the site was sold off and become a Sainsbury supermarket.
There are plans for a service to resume in 2019 from a new site operated by Sloane Helicopters using the AW 139.
G-ASNL whilst operating with British Airways from Aberdeen ditched in the North Sea 11 Mar 83, she was recovered and ended up in the USA late 1983 as N4503E for Carson Helicopters, noted later with the US State Dept as N220WW from late 2010.
*G-ASNL Sikorsky S-61N British Airways --- Penzance Heliport 4-8-82
Penzance Heliport in the days when schedule flights to The Scilly Isle by British Airways later British International Helicopters were operated.
Sevices ceased in 2012 due high costs and falling passenger numbers the site was sold off and become a Sainsbury supermarket.
There are plans for a service to resume in 2019 from a new site operated by Sloane Helicopters using the AW 139.
G-ASNL whilst operating with British Airways from Aberdeen ditched in the North Sea 11 Mar 83, she was recovered and ended up in the USA late 1983 as N4503E for Carson Helicopters, noted later with the US State Dept as N220WW from late 2010.