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Aircraft
CAL FIRE Skycrane
N716HTHelicopter Transport Services (CAL FIRE contract) · Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane
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Airframe · FAA registry
Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane
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About CAL FIRE Skycrane (N716HT)

Operator
Helicopter Transport Services (CAL FIRE contract)
Aircraft
Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane
Registration
N716HT
Mode S
a99318

Fourth HTS S-64 Skycrane on the CAL FIRE contract pool alongside N795HT / N792HT / N793HT. HTS rotates these airframes across CDF helitack bases during fire season, so any of the four can be staged on a given SRA incident depending on maintenance cycles and resource priority.

Where CAL FIRE Skycrane flies

We have recorded CAL FIRE Skycrane over 22 neighborhoods in Los Angeles and Kern counties, 271 passes in all — most recently over Antelope Acres on 17 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.

The rest of the CAL FIRE Skycrane fleet

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