Following this unknown Mercy Air N164AM helicopter in the area this summer. It's painted in Mercy Air colors now.
It can be found sitting at Fullerton airport most of the time. Sometime it's sitting next to the local BELL 222 Mercy Air Helicopter covering Orange County.
It was undergoing maintenance at the Fullerton airport working on the tail boom section.
It first came to California June 9th, 2012.
The helicopter was used over in Cincinnati area from November 19th, 2011 to April 13th, 2012.
It's doing some test flights this week. It landed at Corona Airport per WebTrax.
Just wondering what Mercy Air will do with this helicopter.
Keep it in Southern California or send it to Northern California area to be used with the other helicopter.
No new photos available online yet showing the new colors.
N164AM (Mode-S A10096) - 1991 Messerschmitt-bolkow-blohm BK 117 B-2 C/N 7229
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry ... txt=N164AM
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=N164AM
Mercy Air using the same BK-117 model of helicopter up near San Francisco area.
N145LF (Mode-S A0B643) - 2005 Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh MBB-BK 117 C-2 C/N 9072
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N145LF.html
Found some stuff related to this N164AM helicopter.
* The pilot noted his helmet bag was missing. [Concern]
http://www.policeaviationnews.com/Acrob ... ne2012.pdf
* Extremely loud explosion was heard
http://www.policeaviationnews.com/Acrob ... ry2009.pdf
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Update:
N164AM Mercy Air is gone from United States and flying in New Zealand now
It's the same helicopter that was sitting at Fullerton airport!
ZK-HGU at Christchurch in late February shortly after its delivery flight from Ardmore where it was prepared by Airwork.
http://mrcaviation.blogspot.com/2015/03 ... shore.html
ZK-HGU (c/n 7229) is a MBB built MBB BK 117 B-2 that was registered to Airwork NZ Ltd on 11/12/14. It is ex N164AM
http://nzcivair.blogspot.com/2015/02/ar ... pters.html
Export To: NEW ZEALAND
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry ... txt=N164AM
Mercy Air N164AM
Re: Mercy Air N164AM
Mercy air 5 is doing something like that. I have his tail number as N241am.