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There were two SAR Nighthawks departing, and I was hoping to get them both lifting off together but this one left about two minutes before the other.

Bagging one of 'em is better than none... a bird in the hand is better than two in a bush... and most of all, thank you, Gary, for sharing this "5" star shot with us!!!

beautiful heli / photo, klasse Gary -
want like once test :-)

greetings , Gary

Awesome shot Gary! A full five stars

Nice shot!

Painted at KNZY

Longhorns, I like it! HOOK'EM!!

These "Knighthawks" were actually painted in-house at KNFL by a very talented maintainer. 👍🏻

Hi, Kevin. Well, I'm not able to say if Scott is correct about them being painted at KNZY or if you are correct that they were painted at KNFL; however, I do definitely recall photographing one inside NFL's Hangar 7 that was partially painted. Either way, wherever they were painted, the painter did a fantastic job!
Also, thanks for correcting the spelling. Actually, I don't quite know why I IDed it as I did because I usually prefer to identify Sikorsky helicopters by the name the company uses; in this case, Seahawk. But, since I did refer to it as a Nighthawk (Knighthawk), I should have spelled it properly. I will make the correction in the Description section and, to insure accuracy, I'll use the official name directly from the Sikorsky website. Thank you for catching my error. ;-)