Nonprofit air unit may donate helicopter to Kootenai County
People watch as Kootenai County Sheriff's Office helicopter ABLE1 lands at Higgens Point in April 2024.
BILL BULEY/Press file
COEUR d’ALENE — After insurance costs threatened to permanently ground the helicopter used by the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office, commissioners will consider a proposal to donate the helicopter to the county while a nonprofit arm continues to fund the program.
County commissioners voted in March 2023 to approve an agreement between the sheriff’s office and the newly formed nonprofit Kootenai County Regional Air Support Unit for the use of ABLE1, a 1996 BELL 206 helicopter purchased using donated funds.
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