Helicopters at Mt Cook

A visit to a busy Mt Cook Airport today found a number of changes in the based helicopters starting with the latest BK117 added to the Southern Lakes Helicopters fleet,  Kawasaki BK117C-1 ZK-IYY2.  This was imported from the US by International Heliproperties in March 2024 as ZK-HJT4 but quickly changed to IYY2 two months later.   It replaced the earlier Southern Lakes 117C-1 IYY1 which had an accident in Fiordland in September 2023.

Added to the Inflite fleet in September 2024 was AS350B2 ZK-IEB which was originally imported from the US in early 2022.   It now carries the company's titling.

And repainted in the Southern Lakes Helicopters company fleet colours is AS350B3 ZK-IDE which was originally imported new in 2008 as ZK-IDF3,  becoming IDE in 2010.