What a beauty ! Thanks for sharing retro11.

Originally built as a Sikorsky CH-54B 'Tarhe', cn 64-081, for the US Army in 1969 sn 69-18473. Bought by Erickson Air-Crane in 1998 and converted to an Erickson-Sikorsky S-64F Skycrane. Since then it has been leased out in Malasia, Korea and Peru.

Thanks for the memories - I liked both of those paint schemes. These two images tell the tale of two aircraft. G-ASNM - First flight end 1963 start 1964 and joined British European Helicopters Ltd. 4th February1964. On 15th November 1970 at about 20 minutes past midnight the main gearbox suffered a ...

Uuoret - Were those shots taken at Aberdeen ?

These shots really capture the atmosphere, I'm happy to see more !

Super set of photographs..............thanks LondonEye

Mike, that was around the time I transfered to Heathrow. Things were pretty chaotic around that time as BAH were moving their HQ from Gatwick to Aberdeen and those of us who wanted to stay in the South had to find new jobs. The older I get the less I remember !

Thanks Uuoret, the third 'photo' really sums up the North Sea working environment, stormy skies and an airframe dirty from a hard days work. I spent a lot of time on working parties at both Aberdeen and Sumburgh but never took my camera.

S.58T ?

LondonEye.............Super 'photo's of the Chinook, thanks for the memories. I worked for BAH at Gatwick for 13 years from 1972 - 1985, both in the new hangar, as pictured, and the old one. While I had little action with the Chinook I was heavily involved with the S.61 fleet. The S.61N ZS-HDK that ...

Hi Folks, I'm from the south coast, a retired aircraft engineer but still have the bug. I'm currently researching the fate of each Sikorsky S.61 that were in the BEA/British Airways Helicopters fleet. I came across this forum while looking at 'photo's of a BAH Chinook at Gatwick, an liked what I saw...