[Sam Oliver]

Good Day Rotorway Community-  I'm happy to be on this forum and hope it grows.  Retired a few years ago from a 42 year career flying helicopters in the Army and then Civil EMS.   I'm a long time looker of Rotorways since the scorpion days, but never really had the stars to line up until -  Unfortunately for me and many many others, RotorX resurrected kit sales.   I hemmed and hawed and swallowed their hook as their get in early sale ended.  Lost my shirt like many others.   After licking my wounds for a couple years, cashed out my kids inheritance and bought an engine from Joe Huff and found enough A600 parts on the open market to complete my project.

I no longer have a facebook account and know that many others in this community also refrain from using large commercial social media apps, so if you are on any of the rotorway facebook groups and see something interesting, I hope you will copy into this forum for those of us not on that platform.

This forum will be my platform for tapping into the knowledge base of current Rotorway owners/operators/maintainers for guidance and assistance as I get back on my RotorX Frankenkit project as I refer to is as.

Please feel free to comment on my progress or lack of it on my thread in the Rotorway Builders section.

[Lyle Swallows]

Welcome Sam, at work this week i just got done handling/swapping components on six different LTS101-750/850's between two BK117-B2's mix and matching parts for time/serviceability/spare Stock is such a common thing when it comes to maintenance i think nearly every helicopter out there is a Franken-Copter in its own time. excited to see you get this think across the finish line and into its airworthiness stage. hoping this forum continues to grow and become a great resource of information.

[Jared Hartzell]

Awesome to have you here, Sam! Terrible event with what happened with RotorX... At least, you'll get your heli done in short time with the resources we have! Even if I someday move on from Rotorways, I'll keep this forum alive and maintained.

[Sam Oliver]

Welcome Sam, at work this week i just got done handling/swapping components on six different LTS101-750/850's between two BK117-B2's mix and matching parts for time/serviceability/spare Stock is such a common thing when it comes to maintenance i think nearly every helicopter out there is a Franken-Copter in its own time. excited to see you get this think across the finish line and into its airworthiness stage. hoping this forum continues to grow and become a great resource of information.

I flew BK117's for a few years.   Mostly A4, later B2's.  I enjoyed them immensely.   Flew them for two different companies, both had excellent maintenance.  We're rarely out of service except "scheduled maintenance".