Nice avatar but what Bell commercial piece o junk is that lol. That interior is either too nice for military or is been desert flavored. Gonna guess its a trainer. Eitherway looks good we just need one in a blackhawk now!
Lol, it's a TH-67C Creek, an Army version of the Bell206III. They are great trainers, and I really enjoyed flying it, but man it was underpowered as shit, it was extremely squirrelly on landings and in turbulence, but a great Instrument platform. The Army does a great job of packing as much shit as they can in their Helicopters. The IFR models were very very nice, but the Army definitely spoiled us with the climate controlled cockpit, brand new Garmin GPS and a complete array of civilian avionics. It had an aircrew of 3, and would push max gross weight almost every day, some days, we could not take off with a full bag of gas because we did'nt have the power to take off with 3 people on board. Its one of the safest commercial "off the shelf" models out there, but the maintenance divison out at Cairns Army Airfield (where they are based) did a terrible job keeping them properly maintained. Not too bad seeing as they had 100+ Aircraft launch and return everyday. They have all been on the flight line since 93.
One of the only plus sides, is that is had a kick ass air conditioner... which unfortunately, the black hawk does not, at least the non-leather seat model don't lol.
My buddy at the controls in this pic
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm44/mhspv06/393.jpg
My buddy at the controls in this pic
[IMG]http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm44/mhspv06/393.jpg
