Illuminating Company – UV/IR Patrols

Please be advised that approximately on/by end of week (3/5), weather permitting, Chesapeake Bay Helicopters will be mobilizing to the Illuminating Company Region and will begin performing UV/IR patrols on all Illuminating Company 138kV lines. These patrols are anticipated to take approximately two to three weeks to complete, but work is strongly weather dependent and completion could be impeded by any post-storm or outage-related patrols that may occur. The helicopter to be used for these patrols is as follows:

• Black and silver, Hughes MD500 with tail registration number N774CB – see photo

It should be noted that the contractor has been authorized to patrol the transmission circuits in their entirety (i.e. “breaker-to-breaker”), so patrols on certain lines may therefore extend into the neighboring regions.