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They're running a night aerial firefighting drill at the end of Stonebridge Blvd., south of Poway. They are using Tacs 28 and 29 and Mutual Aid 30. One of those is patched to County Red 2. Copter 1 and a Sycuan hand crew are involved, along with at least one engine to ground fill the helicopter with...

According to my source Mercy Air 5 is a Eurocopter EC135, registration unknown. He says it broke down on the Scripps pad a few days ago, so the Bell 222 that was seen may have been a temporary replacement. According to him, the pilots and mechanics "love it" but the crew doesn't like the s...

Copter 10 (N107BZ) was built in 1968 and Copter 12 (N449RC) was built in 1973. In my book that qualifies as old.

N402MA is listed as being owned by CFS Air LLC which is a leasing company. Air Methods must be leasing it from them.

I received the following current information from somebody who knows.

N401MA - Bell 412 - Mercy Air 14 - Mojave

N402MA - Bell 222 - Area 1 spare

N405LN - Bell 412 - Mercy Air 2 - Victorville

The company that developed and operates the DC-10 air tanker 910, now has a second one, tanker 911. I don't know if it's operational yet though. Photo by Alan Radecki, operator of the Mojave Skies blog. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nP0yUQFiTwU/SPpxTjbdOUI/AAAAAAAAA7U/4_mwuUYLALg/s1600-h/tanker911-dc10-...

Following are the listings for all of the helicopters registered to Mercy Air Service Inc and the ones with MA in the registration number registered to Air Methods Corporation from the FAA records. 401MA 33060 BELL 412 MERCY AIR SERVICE INC 403MA 47516 BELL 222U MERCY AIR SERVICE INC 406MA 47134 BEL...

I think they must move the helicopters around, although the radio equipment must differ. Mercy Air 3 always uses White 3 because they don't have Med Air. I know that 416MA has been in the area since at least early last month because I saw it fly over Montgomery Field on the 7th. It also landed on th...

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Interesting about the new LAFD helicopters. You would think that for the price they paid they would get something usable. I don't know for sure where the Sycuan copter is based but I assume it's somewhere on the reservation. I'm pretty sure that the Sycuan Golden Eagle Hotshots have a base northeast...