New York Helicopter Shuttle

5 ] In 1962 they switched to the double turboprop, a two-stage Boeing Vertol 107-II turbocopter[6] propelled by engines and later ran the two-stage Sikorsky S-61 propulsion system. Manhattan's first regular services began in December 1956 at the new helicopter port western of the Western Side Highway at St. George's Day, 1930. The East River Pier 6own helicopter port was opened in 1960 and New York Airways shifted all its Manhattan passengers around December 1960.

Owing to routing limitations on the Vertol 44 mono motor, non-stop Manhattan to Idlewild services had to wait for the 107 mono motor. By June 1964 they had 32 JFK to Newark Airport and 33 return trips a day; all trips between about 0900 and 1930 stop at Wall St. The only other flights:

Daily 15 round tours between JFK and the harbour authority at the World Exhibition (La Guardia was still under construction). Liner services to the roof of the Pan Am started in December 1965, ended in 1968 and were continued for several month in 1977. Twenty-three non-stop daily departures to the Pan Am JFK terminals were planned for 10 min. in April 1966; 40 min. before their planned departures from JFK, travellers could board at the Pan Am premises.

There were 13 daily helicopter trips to Newark, 5 non-stop trips to the TWA terminals in JFK and 12 non-stop trips to the LGA, all to JFK. Soon after the Pan Am Building flight was restarted, the Official Airline Guide (OAG) of March 1977 showed 48 S-61 departure weekdays from there:

Initially, the company cooperated with 24 multinational and national carriers. The Official Guide (OAG) in 1969 list several inter-airport STOL Twin Ocean routes along with the Vertol routes. After the Pan Am Building disaster in 1977 and the 1979 power meltdown, the carrier failed to recuperate, and New York Airways went bankrupt on May 18, 1979.

N6682D preparing for the departure from the Pan Am Building in September 1967. Passagiere embarked on a thousand regular airline flights: 68 in 1957, 144 in 1960, 537 in 1967, 268 in 1970. Columbia Helicopters now operates all of New York Airways' remaining Boeing Vertol 107s: The N6682D is in the 1968 movie Coogan's Bluff with Clint Eastwood's lead role in the Pan Am Building.

The N108PA is the helicopter that arrives with Eastwood. The N6676D is shown in the last of the Secret Agent 077 movie trio, the Special Mission Lady Chaplin of 1966, which takes off from downtown Manhattan/Wall St. Heliport. The film is published in the espionage tale Matchless from 1967, which arrives from the Pan Am Building and takes off.

No other helicopter companies in the galaxy carried travellers at that point, but BEA had planned to fly S-51 from 1950. <font color="#ffff00" size=14> Aviation Week for January 9, 1961 states that the total cost of a Vertol was 44 31 Cent per square meter, so the carrier would need a perpetual grant.

Aviation Week for January 9, 1961 says with the Vertol 107 "it will be possible to work with vertically launch capable instead of the necessary launch roller with the single-engine H-44B pistons. New York Times. Helicopter Boeing. Aircraft Accident Report - New York Airways, Inc. N619PA Pan Am Building Heliport, New York, New York, New York 16 May 1977" (PDF).