With European EASA and Canadian TC certification of the R66 causing issues for customers in those countries, Australia is forging ahead with deliveries and there are now nine R66s registered there with CASA.

The last six of these demonstrate a bit of trend – serial numbers 48, 54, 60, 66, 72 and 78 form an easy mathematical series and all have been delivered to Heliflite at Bankstown Airport in Sydney.  The company also has bases as Melbourne’s Essendon Airport, Redcliffe Airport at Brisbane, as well as Jandakot Airport at Perth.

In the last week we reported on the sale of one of these – see Heliflite delivers R66 to the Salvation Army

Jeremy Parkin – HeliHub.com