VH-UTN
Bell
47G-3-B1
(c/n 2904)
Registered VH-GSM for two
months, VH-UTN was sold to Helicopter Utilities as VH-UTN
in April 1964. It became
one of many helicopters the company sent to Papua New Guinea
to assist the Australian Army Survey Corps mapping the country.
David Carter photographed
it at Mascot in 1970 but it returned to PNG to become P2-UTN in August
1974 . –UTN was
sold in the US in April 1976 as N9010C and flew on there for almost 20
years . In August 1995
it was acquired by the fledgling Uruguyan Navy air arm with the serial
056 . It is believed to
have been written off.