N600HX — live tracking every few seconds while it is in the air, and who this aircraft is the rest of the time.
N600HX is a Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane in OHX firefighting livery — a heavy-lift water-bomber with a 2,650-gallon belly tank, used on LA-basin wildland firefighting contracts during fire season. The S-64 silhouette is unmistakable: an exposed-frame airframe with a long tail boom, dual turboshaft engines mounted high on the body, and the ability to refill from open water in seconds via its snorkel. Sister type to the CH-54 Tarhe military helicopter.
We have recorded OHX Skycrane over 18 neighborhoods in Los Angeles and Kern counties, 235 passes in all — most recently over Tehachapi on 16 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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