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Helicopter Tours To Take Off In Maine

A helicopter service based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire has started offering interactive scenic tours out of the Portland Jetport.

Seacoast Helicopters Founder and CEO Bruce Cultrera says the company was looking for expansion opportunities, and found Portland's environment to be similar to Portsmouth's.

“Very picturesque, touristy, lots of eye candy: islands lighthouses, waterfront so on and so forth,” says Cultrera.

Tours range from a half hour trip over downtown Portland and Casco Bay with views of half-a-dozen lighthouses to a two hour excursion to Halfway Rock, which is about 8 miles off the coast. Included is a lighthouse tour and picnic.

Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.