c/n 1210, N295LA

[Doug Johnson]

8 pictures check your albums. Please do an internet search maybe you'll come up with one I couldn't find, I need all the help I can get.

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c/n 1210, built 03/66 as model H-295 original registry N6316V Helicopter Utilities pty ltd NSW accident ground loop on takeoff right gear leg collapsed @ Georgetown Q'LD 8/66 sold 01/68, dereg export VH-UND Australia Airfast Charter pty Ltd. NSW sold '70, dereg export PK-KBB International Nickel P.T. Indonesia sold '73, rereg PK-OAM Airfast Services Indonesia P.T., Jakarta Indonesia sold '77, Heli Orient (Noel Bond) Seletar Airfield Singapore sold '82, dereg export Steve Murray '90 rereg N295LA for Helio H-295 Lobo Air (Steve Murray) CA '95  installed Cessna Fuel caps (STC00786AT), 1400 series control yokes, panel, trapezoidal rear windows and dorsal fin installed utility and baggage door sold 12/95, Lakeview Transportation Corp OR sold '03, Robert Howell NV upgraded individual Cessna seats (STC916SO), installed Roto-Master (formerly Rayjay) Turbo Normalized (STC SE124SO) sold '08, Christian Armand Washoe, NV


wrong serial and registry number on photo header

wrong serial and registry number on photo header

[Doug Johnson]

edited the history and added Cessna seat installation and saw the 337 for the replacement of the diagonal at rear of baggage area with a horizontal cross member (same as 1400). If you have a 1200 series 295, 395, or 391 with a baggage door seems like a useful mod, probably only practical if doing a major refurbishment or repair. Most if not all of cabin skins on 1210 were removed along with tail cone so frame could be sandblasted and inspected because of corrosion.

[TreeTopFlyer]

When Steve Murray restored this plane he did it right.  Ground up restoration, probably the most detailed, neat logbooks I have ever seen (Sorry most mechanics just don't take the time to be that neat) detailing his work.  That's why I bought it.  Extremely clean inside.  He did a great job. He would have had to take it apart because the frame has been completely restored , painted and looks new.  I actually just pulled up the floorboards and headliner during the annual and looked at it closely because another member and I were talking about the roll cages.

Steve did a lot of great mods.....I like the 1400 config, but prefer the original manual flaps I have, plus the baggage door....I thought when I was looking that I probably would have to buy a worn out plane and go through the time consuming rebuild process...but then I found N295LA and it was just like I wanted.

I have way too many vehicles and boat motors I'm still working on to get into airplane rebuilding too!

[TreeTopFlyer]

PS Doug my first name is spelled Christian NOT Cristian...don't make me tell you again (2d time)  LOL

[Doug Johnson]

Christian,
You won't have to tell me a third time. Even the spell checker was telling me it was wrong.

I prefer the manual flap also, but I would have preferred a Johnson bar like the old Cessnas instead of a window crank. I think the Johnson bar lets you feel the the flap extension better than the crank on the Helio.

John Alleva intends to use a manual hydraulic flap on his experimental Helio c/n 103 similar to the Beaver I think that might be an even better way to go.

You are also correct that Steve Murray could give lessons in how to do 337s for logs.

[Doug Johnson]

Found a couple early photos will open above as #3 and 4

[TreeTopFlyer]

Thanks Steve I haven't seen those 2...must have been around the same time Australia mid
1966

[TreeTopFlyer]

Doug....sorry

[Foster]

[Jason Stephens]

Looking good!  Still on the xwind gear looks like.  What tire size is that?

[TreeTopFlyer]

22's

[joshuaycrs]

Update: sn:1210 sold to Joshua Siegel based in Oxford, CT

[Nathan Mackey]

I helped advertise this aircraft years ago before it sold to Chris Armand. Its great to see it out flying again. I would occasionally receive reports that it was flying out of Reno, etc. I'd love to talk to the new owner.
Nathan Mackey
www.heliocourier.net