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production was mothballed.
"The marvel of the K-MAX,'' Roberts
said, "is that thing was so far ahead of
its time. It had a successful civilian and
military career. Now, it's coming back into
production. And that's brilliant.''
Enhancing its longevity and desirability,
Fogarty said, is that the K-1200 can be con-
figured for a wide variety of commercial
and civic tasks — logging, crop-dusting and
search/rescue.
The simplicity of the K-MAX's purpose
and design solely as a workhorse, too,
was key to its popularity initially, and 26
years after its first design, Roberts said.
So many rotary aircraft, he said, are built
to serve multiple roles, which often result
in them not doing any one task well.
Longtime customer
One of Kaman's earliest K-MAX cus-
tomers is Swanson Group Aviation in
Glendale, Ore. Swanson's fleet includes
a pair, purchased new for $3.2 million to
$3.6 million apiece, in 1996 — four years
before commercial production ended, said
Jeff Allen, general manager of Swanson's
manned and unmanned aviation services.
For their first 20 years, the "Jumping
Jack Flash'' and its unnamed sister ship
were involved in Swanson's logging and
milling operations, Allen said. At their
peak, the K-1200s lifted 750,000 to 1 mil-
lion tons of logs daily.
Since the pair stopped hauling logs in
2016, Swanson now hires them out for fire-
fighting, stringing powerlines and other
construction duties, he said. Each has
logged more than 25,000 flight hours with
only maintenance/repairs to the engine
and rotary parts.
Even better, he said, is that the relatively
low hourly operating costs for the K-MAX
make it invaluable to the fleet, and the rea-
son Swanson has resisted offers to sell.
"It's the most reliable aircraft for its
weight category,'' said Allen, also a sea-
soned helicopter technician who has ser-
viced dozens of K-1200s based in 15 coun-
tries. "It's the best in the business.''
Swanson's 21-year experience as a
K-MAX and aircraft fleet owner/operator is
the reason it signed a five-year agreement
with Kaman, to assist with the production
relaunch and after-sales support, Allen said.
Swanson, too, was Kaman's key partner,
along with aerospace giant Lockheed Martin,
in developing two K-MAX pilotless drones for
the U.S. Marines, which after successful field
trials, deployed them in 2011 to deliver exter-
nal loads of food, water and other supplies to
the battlefield in Afghanistan.
Originally due for a six-month deploy-
ment, the K-MAX drones wound up stay-
ing 2 1/2 years, delivering more than 4.5
million pounds of cargo to U.S. and allied
ground forces, Allen said.
"Bottom line,'' Fogarty said, "the K-Max
is back because people wanted it.'' n
Kaman Corp.'s K-MAX heavy-lift helicopter earned a
reputation for low operating and maintenance costs.
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