Detailed history and photos of helicopter Sikorsky S-58B Serial 58-470 Register CF-LWC N862 used by Okanagan Helicopters Track service timeline and current status.
Aircraft History
N862
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1957-02-19
Sikorsky S-58B, c/n 58-470, ff? del Humble Oil as N862, 19Feb57 sold Okanagan Helicopters as CF-LWC, unk w/o 03Apr61.
Okanagan Helicopters w/o 03apr61 went missing between Hopedale and Goose Bay with the pilot and six passengers on board. After the long search
was called off and quite a while later a local Inuit trapper noticed a coloured item just below the surface of a lake. This was the S-58, it had
had a sudden engine failure and had gone in with no survivors