The Aviation Historian — January 2018

74 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22

ABOVE With the double-deck elevated Embarcadero Freeway as a backdrop, S-62 N307Y hovers above the

Downtown San Francisco Heliport landing pad, with the terminal building behind, in April 1969. The Embarcadero

Freeway was later damaged in the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 and was subsequently torn down in 1991.

ABOVE The SFO fleet was given a makeover in the early 1970s, acquiring a tasteful new colour scheme of dark

blue upper surfaces and a red cheat line separated by a narrow white line running the length of the fuselage to the

tail rotor, with a predominantly white lower fuselage and dark blue hull, as seen in this 1974 photograph at SFO.

MARSHALL MOXOM / COLLECTION OF SFO MUSEUM

PETER KEATING © A FLYING HISTORY LTD