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..........Bristow Base: Kerteh, Malaysia.

Around 1980 a new airport was built in the state of
Terengganu which would mainly serve the off-shore
installations, one hours flying time from the East coast.
In 1981 Bristows/Malaysian Helicopter Services re-located
their main operations from Terengganu airport to Kerteh.
It is unclear when the aircraft changed from Bristow to
M.H.S. ownership but as can be seen from the pictures
all the aircraft were in M.H.S. colours except for 9M-SSK
which was soon to return to U.K.


The fleet was growing all the time and soon outgrew
its new home, so a new hanger was added in front of
the fuel tanks in the picture plus new hard-standings
to accommodate the six new S76Cs. It became pretty
busy with 8 X S76, 6 X S61 and a couple of Bell 412s.

The brown hut is the engineers' crew room and also contained the line-office.