Flown by Australian businessman and adventurer Dick Smith on the first solo circumnavigation of the world in a rotary wing aircraft in 1982/3, in the process making an appearance at Farnborough SBAC in 1982

Registered as VH-DIK in 1982. Was on a record breaking around the world flight. Cancelled from the register in 1990. Preserved at Sydney Powerhouse Museum.

Peserved in Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

Registered in May 2011. Tony Arbon photo.

History of this aircraft from the Museum website copied below The Bell Jet Ranger III helicopter, Dick Smith Australian Explorer, was flown by Australian businessman and adventurer Dick Smith on the first solo circumnavigation of the world in a rotary wing aircraft in 1982/3. The flight was also the first solo helicopter flight across the Atlantic Ocean and the first solo flight from the U.S.A. to Australia by helicopter. The flight was taken over three stages from Fort Worth, Texas to London, London to Sydney and Sydney back to Fort Worth. Over 55,000 km was traveled in 260 hours of flying

This Bell Jet Ranger belongs to well known entrepenour Dick Smith seen here at the Cowra Air Show in 1995. Scanned from a Kodak 64 slide.