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During the month of March ‘23, Tulare County experienced record rainfall that led to large levee breaks and widespread flooding. Most of the breaks were inaccessible by traditional ground-based equipment, posing an even greater danger to the residents of Tulare County. To help combat the crisis, CAL FIRE Tulare Unit contracted two Siller S-61A/V Sikorsky...
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Transformer Replacement at a GM Assembly Plant
Project date: December 20, 2022 Prior to the Christmas holiday ’22, Siller was called upon by Nooter St. Louis – a national, multi-craft commercial contractor, to help replace five, 8-ton transformers at the General Motors assembly plant in Wentzville, MO, along one its truck assembly lines. The Skycrane S-64E was used due to its capabilities...
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Featured Story Willis Tower Antenna Replacement
Project date: November 20, 2022 When Installation Services, Inc. (ISI) in Chicago needed to replace a worn out communications antenna atop one of the country’s tallest skyscrapers, the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower), ISI contracted the Siller team and its Sikorsky S-64E Skycrane. Siller was to disengage the defective unit into two pieces, lift it...
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In December 2021, the town and area around Blytheville, AR was hit by large tornado that took out a three-mile stretch of power lines. Due to the marshy terrain that surrounded buildings and other set structures, reconstruction of the large towers by normal ground means would have been impossible. This stretch of transmission line was...
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In a remote section of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Northern California, volunteers, county officials and construction crews joined forces with Siller Helicopters to conduct a major maintenance project on one of the most famous off-road routes in the world, the Rubicon Trail. Jason Jorgensen visited the gravel yard which served as the base of...
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Pleasanton Siller Helicopters
Fighting Wildfires From the Air By Tim Hunt, Pleasanton Weekly [link to original article] Uploaded: Oct 9, 2019 With the extreme fire danger in Northern California looming and PG&E preparing to shutdown power to as many as 800,000 customers, CalFire moved to deploy its assets to respond quickly if a fire broke out. One of...
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At Siller Helicopters, we know that safety is a never-ending journey.  We are continually striving to ensure the success of our safety management systems and ultimately our company.  We know that our safety is the key to our success as well as a successful partnership with our customers.
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