As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 21, 1994.
                                                     Registration No. 33-51617


                   SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                        Washington, D.C.   20549


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                  POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE
                                 FORM S-8
         REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933


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                        PETROLEUM HELICOPTERS, INC.
           (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
              
         Louisiana                                           72-0395707
      (State or other                                     (I.R.S. Employer
jurisdiction of incorporation                          Identification Number)
           or organization)

                         5728 Jefferson Highway
                      New Orleans, Louisiana 70183
                    (Address, including zip code, of
                Registrant's principal executive offices)


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         Petroleum Helicopters, Inc. 1992 Non-Qualified Stock
               Option and Stock Appreciation Rights Plan

        Stock Option Agreement Between Petroleum Helicopters, Inc.
                          and John H. Untereker
                        (Full title of the Plans)



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                             Carroll W. Suggs
       Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer
                         Petroleum Helicopters, Inc.
                              P. O. Box 23502
                           5728 Jefferson Highway
                         New Orleans, Louisiana 70183
                               (504) 733-6790
          (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
                 including area code, of agent for service)



                              AMENDMENT

     On October 26, 1994, the registrant, a Delaware corporation, merged into

a newly formed subsidiary, Petroleum Helicopters, Inc., a Louisiana

corporation ("PHI-Louisiana").  The purpose of the merger was to effect a

change in the state of incorporation of the registrant from Delaware to

Louisiana in accordance with Rule 414 under the Securities Act of 1933.

Pursuant to the plan of merger, the par value of the Non-Voting Common Stock

and Voting Common Stock registered in this Registration Statement No. 33-51617

has been changed from $.08 1/3 to $.10 par value per share.  PHI-Louisiana

adopts this Registration Statement No. 33-51617 as its own Registration

Statement for all purposes of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities

Exchange Act of 1934.


                                       
                                       PART II

                        INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS


          Item 20.  Exhibit.

               5    Opinion  of Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere
                    & Denegre .


          


                              SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets
all the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Post-
Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New
Orleans, State of Louisiana, on November 21, 1994.


                                           PETROLEUM HELICOPTERS, INC.



                                           By: /s/ Carroll W. Suggs
                                                 Carroll W. Suggs,
                                               Chairman of the Board,
                                            President and Chief Executive
                                                      Officer


                           POWER OF ATTORNEY

     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears immediately below constitutes and appoints Carroll W. Suggs and John
H. Untereker or either one of them, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and
agent, with full power of substitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including
post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the
same with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith,
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-
fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act
and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and
purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorney-in-fact and agent or his substitute or substitutes may
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement has been
signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

        Signature                       Title                  Date



      /s/ Carroll W. Suggs      Chairman of the Board,        November 21, 1994
      Carroll W. Suggs            President and Chief
                             Executive Officer (Principal
                                   Executive Officer)

      /s/ John H. Untereker   Vice President, Treasurer       November 21, 1994
      John H. Untereker      and Chief Financial Officer
                             (Principal Financial Officer
                          and Principal Accounting Officer)

             *                         Director               November 21, 1994
      Robert E. Perdue



             *                         Director               November 21, 1994
      Leonard M. Horner



      /s/ Robert G. Lambert            Director               November 21, 1994
      Robert G. Lambert


      *By: /s/ Carroll W. Suggs                               November 21, 1994
         Carroll W. Suggs
         Attorney-in-Fact