N261CG — live tracking every few seconds while it is in the air, and who this aircraft is the rest of the time.
Contracted firefighting Sea King operated by Coulson Aviation as part of the LA County Fire Quick Reaction Force. The S-61 carries 1,000-plus gallons of water or retardant; you'll see it on every major LA-basin wildfire from June through November.
We have recorded Coulson S-61 over 36 neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Ventura and Kern counties, 165 passes in all — most recently over Lake Balboa on 10 October.
Counted from this site's own observations of the public ADS-B feed, not from a flight plan — a pass is a visit we watched, and the list is what we have seen, not everywhere this aircraft has been.
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