FlyHelio

You probably know about this list :

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/dblist.php?AcType=COUR

Something has to be mixed up.

An accident on the same day at the same place where the aircraft hits another and catches on fire 1 fatality both destroyed.

I wish there was a better view of the wreckage. I wonder if the destroyed parked Cessna was N3339Y or was the parked aircraft the Helio if so then their would be no accident report for the Helio.

But I still think the tail of the burning aircraft looks like a Helio unless the photo angle is such that the 182 is actually burning and a little further away.

Also possibly the Helio wasn't actually destroyed just badly damaged didn't burn and was repaired or salvaged for parts.

OK guys I'm left wondering if they had fake news back in 1970. I sent a copy of the picture to Barry Collman in the UK.

He ran it past a a friend here in the USA who has access to old newspapers. This is what he said.

I ran this past my friend and it seems we were both ‘fooled’ by the shape of the fin, into thinking it was a Helio.

In fact, The Lowell Sun reported it as a Cessna and an NTSB report (NYC70AN089) almost certainly confirms it was N3339Y, a Cessna 182.

I was fooled just as much by the caption that calls the wrecked plane a 'Helio Courier Search plane' the shape of the tail fin reinforced it.

Just when I thought it was sorted out I find that that the A/C tail we thought looked like a Helio tail was a Helio tail.

Barry's press report contact found that their was a Helio and it was owned by Marine Associates.
They were formerly known as AGB Corporation and based at Worcester, Massachusetts.
However, a search under those names doesn’t produce a viable candidate.
 
They were a distributor for Helio aircraft, so the one in question may have been with them, but not Registered to them.

Barry is going to try an email to the NTSB, as they have been quite helpful to him in the past.

And I need help I thought I would go to the NTSB site and look up the accident (NYC70AN089) for N3339Y . I discover I can't find it apparently I don't know how.

Can anyone give me a tutorial on how to find that accident.

Another low resolution preview E-bay photo.

This is c/n 1262 as N42022 while with the USDA before being returned to the USAF.

It really should be opened as the 3^rd photo in the queue above, before it was placed in the museum with a fake tail number.

Stumbled across this picture at Fly Alaska.
I searched for a picture of c/n 2510 while it was with Reeve Aleutian but never found anything.

Anyone know who owned Cougar Air and who owned 2510 it when it dbr and who dismantled it for parts?

This picture taken at MRI Anchorage