AS332 Super Puma Start-Up & Takeoff Los Angeles County Sheriff N951LB Airbus H215

10-29-2017 Footage of Los Angeles County Sheriff Helicopter Starting Up & Taking off in a very Hazy/Foggy day at the San Gabriel Valley Airport in El Monte CA. (AKA El-Monte Airport)
Los Angeles County Sheriff - Air Rescue 5 Eurocopter AS332L1 Super Puma
N951LB (C/N 9003) MFR Year 2003 (Old Registration Number: N486AE)
I want to personally thank the men and woman of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for all the work they do.
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The Airbus Helicopters H215 (formerly Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma) is a four-bladed, twin-engine, medium-size utility helicopter developed and initially produced by the French aerospace company Aérospatiale. It has been subsequently manufactured by the successor companies Eurocopter and Airbus Helicopters. The Super Puma is a re-engined and more voluminous version of the original Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma.
It is powered by a pair of Turbomeca Makila 1A1 turboshaft engines which drive the rotorcraft's four-bladed main rotor and five-bladed tail rotor.
The main cabin of the Super Puma, which is accessed via a pair of sliding plug doors, features a reconfigurable floor arrangement that enables various passenger seating or cargo configurations to be adopted, which includes specialised configurations for medical operators. According to Airbus Helicopters, in addition to the two pilots, the short-fuselage AS332 can accommodate up to 15 passengers while the stretched-fuselage AS332 increases this to 20 passengers in a comfortable configuration.