THE Royal Brunei Air Force (RBAirF), then known as Helicopter Platoon, received the Jet Ranger Bell 206A and two 206B II helicopters for flying training from the Worldwide Helicopters Company in February 1968.
RBAirF marked a new milestone when it trained the first two pilots locally, Second Lieutenant Awangku Abidin bin Pengiran Ahmad and Second Lieutenant Jocklin bin Kongpaw. The local pilots clocked a total of 90 hours in-flight training using these helicopters upon completing their basic flying training at the British Executive Air Services Limited of Kidlington, Oxford in Britain, in the previous year.
