CHC S-61 operated for the Irish Coast Guard. CHC Helicopter serves as the sole provider of Search and Rescue helicopter services to the Irish Coast Guard, where it had operated a fleet of six Sikorsky S-61N helicopters based in Dublin, Shannon, Waterford, and Sligo. This fleet has now been replaced by 5 Sikorsky S-92 Helibus.
Most Virginia farms do not grow tobacco, but it's a key crop for those who do. In the Piedmont District (Piedmont tobacco region as defined by the US Department of Agriculture-not the entire Piedmont physiographic province...), less that 10% of the farms had an allotment allowing them to grow tobacco.icotinia rustica migrated north from Mexico, presumably with the help of Native American farmers, and was being grown in Virginia when Jamestown was settled. John Rolfe is credited with importing Nicotiana tabacum seeds, so Virginians could grow a species of tobacco that was less harsh when smoked.
Agriculture has played a dominant role in the Commonwealth of Virginia's development since the establishment of the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown in 1607. John Rolfe, a 17th-century colonist and husband of Pocahontas, introduced tobacco to England via the Virginia Colony in 1614. Thereafter, tobacco was king in the Tidewater area colony throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. Colonists only grew corn and wheat for use by their families. Other crops were grown, but mostly for individual consumption. As Virginia's Piedmont became more populated during the 19th century, the area became a major tobacco producer. Lynchburg, Blackstone, and Danville were tobacco centers, with Lynchburg being one of the largest in the world in the early 19th century.