N43CU — live tracking every few seconds while it is in the air, and who this aircraft is the rest of the time.
Twin-rotor Chinook converted to firefighting use with a 3,000-gallon belly tank — the largest helicopter water-bomber in LA-basin service. Coulson Unical operates the type under multi-state firefighting contracts including LA County Fire.
We have recorded Coulson CH-47 Helitanker over 71 neighborhoods in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, 762 passes in all — most recently over Lake Balboa on 18 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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