Helicopter at Seaforth 11/9 23:00

[nachtjager]

Evening all

Just driven past Seaforth docks and noticed a helicopter sitting by the road.
From a quick glance it appeared to be an S-61 under plastic sheeting, though I would have thought a Puma would be more likely.

[Barfluer]

A couple of lmage"s of the "SIKORSKY" at seaforth dock.
No sign of any I.D.

[viscount]

Quite certainly a Sikorsky S-61N. The 'OAS' on the cabin roof, supported by the colour scheme with white fuselage with red nose and tail show the previous operator as 'Coast Guard' - likely one of the S-61Ns recently replaced by Sikorsky S-92s in the same role.

Good spot that 'Nachtjager' and thanks for passing on such an interesting sighting.

[argus]

This S61 had an M on the nose.

Cheers

[cdhaslam]

Hi They usualy have the last 2 letters on the nose..G-ATFM has been in the falklands for some years but I think it is still in the old colours.

Probably end up unknown as per the last 2 Puma's that arrived from abroad not long ago

[radiostationx]

If it's at Seaforth, fellow flickr photographer Mark Holt is your man for the inside info.

www.flickr.com/photos/mark_holt_photography/

Some fantastic shots on his flickr page,he is a real mil air geek and no mistake...a few on his page of some new chinooks recently being unloaded at the container terminal.

Great enthusiast & skilled amateur photographer .

Why not send him a Flickrmail.

Update : Could it be "Mike Uniform" G-BIMU the Stornaway Heli ?

I know another fellow flickr photographer ,Chris Murray who is a HM Coastguard winchman up there in Scotland.Hes worked MU and others for years.
Brave Guy,Goes out to his office which is open for business 24/7/365 in all sorts of crazy weather !
Chris is a Superb amateur "Togger" also.
Beautiful part of the world, take a look at his great pics which include some of MU.


www.flickr.com/photos/38534460@N08/