euroastar350

Howdy, First time posting and I have a nice update for the current news chopper scene. WFLA ended the contract with US Helicopters which provided the AS350BA AStar, N818HD, this ship is now in Chicago. In return, WFLA is now using the former WAVY-TV Chopper 10/Bell 206L3/N210TV since WFLA and WAVY are both owned by Nexstar. It's been a few months since the swap and as of this post, the chopper still has WAVY's branding on it. I believe WAVY no longer relies on helicopter coverage. Yes KWTV did lose their brand new (used) Bell 505 recently and was quickly replaced by a 1995 Bell 206L4, N595CC which is undergoing refurb/modified for TV news. It'll be N9TV sometime after it's completed and in service WLKY recently swapped N3YJ for N90CL. N3YJ and N29S are both in San Antonio covering for KENS/KSAT, N61CL which was the ship for those stations is currently at Heliinc headquarters. Of course we all know Heliinc has LA contracts now, it's with three ships. N50Q, N39CL and N93DD The old N3QY used by KCRA is now N6TY and is in Atlanta along with N5QV and N46CL, unless things have changed recently. KCRA now has another 206L4 which was previously N77TL and was re-registered as N3QY Gone from the Helicopters Inc fleet are N2AQ which was exported to Canada with 30,000 airframe hours. This ship was used by WSB for as long as I can remember. N2BQ was also sold and was a backup/pool ship. This aircraft had almost 25,000 airframe hours before it was retired from the fleet