MD 900 Explorer   msn: 900-00054

# 054 / ZK-IYN, RotorForce Aviation Innovation / Faram Aviation Group Ltd,
The first MD Explorer to be operated on the New Zealand registry.

Photo: Faram Helicopters, October 2015.

N902YN, CalStar Six, captured while departing from Buchanan Field.

Photo: Steve Nation, KCCR, 10 September 2010.

N222YN, CalStar Six, California Shock Trauma Air Rescue.
Repainted and modified with an elongated tailboom, and based at South Lake Tahoe airport.
Pictured at Sacramento McClellan Air Force Base, California.

Photo: William Appleton, KMCC, 17 August 2007.

N222YN, Sky Flight Care, surprise visitor at Rotofest 2006.

Photo: Paul Kanagie, KN99, 15 October 2006.

This MD Explorer was sold by Excel Air Service in Japan and exported to the USA in January 2004.
In March 2004 it was registered to Trevor Corporation, with tailnumber N222YN, and is now
temporary operating for Sky FlightCare untill their new MD Explorer will be delivered.

Photo: Robert Hancock, Brandywine Hospital, Coatesville, Pennsylvania, 12 May 2004.


JA01DH, The first Doctor Heli MD Explorer in Japan.

JA01DH in basic USCG colors.

Photo: Eiji Ikarashi.

 Airframe History:
 Date: Tailnumber: Owner / Operator:
 MAR 1998 N9229Q  MD Helicopters,
 Mesa, Arizona
 SEP 1999 9054  United States Coast Guard,
 HITRON 10, leased
 JAN 2001 JA01DH  Diamond Lease,
 Japan
 FEB 2001 JA01DH  Excel Air Service / Doctor Heli,
 Japan
 JAN 2004 N222YN  Eckhart Helicopter Sales,
 Illinois
 MAR 2004 N222YN  Sky FlightCare / Trevor Corporation,
 Pennsylvania
 JAN 2006 N222YN  MD Helicopters,
 Mesa, Arizona
 AUG 2007 N222YN  California Shock Trauma Air Rescue,
 Lake Tahoe
 MAY 2010 N902YN  California Shock Trauma Air Rescue,
 Lake Tahoe
 OCT 2012 N902YN  for sale by National Aviation Logistics llc,
 Madera, California
 [ttaf:2810]
 NOV 2015 ZK-IYN  Faram Aviation Group Ltd,
 New Zealand
 SEP 2019 ZK-IYN  for sale by Tulsa Turbine,
 Tulsa, Oklahoma
 [ttaf:3680] & [$ 1.600.000,==]
     

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