Exhibit 3.16

                        RESTATED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

                                       OF

                      EVERGREEN HELICOPTERS OF ALASKA, INC.

          Evergreen Helicopters of Alaska, Inc., an Alaska corporation, pursuant
to Section 10.05.294 of the Alaska Business Corporation Act, adopts the
following Restated Articles of Incorporation which set out without change the
corresponding provisions of the Articles of Incorporation as amended up to this
date and which shall supersede the original Articles of Incorporation and all
amendments to them:

                                   ARTICLE I

          The name of the corporation shall be Evergreen Helicopters of Alaska,
     Inc.

                                   ARTICLE II

          The corporation shall have perpetual existence.

                                   ARTICLE III

          The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is organized are to
     carry on a general helicopter service and all activities related thereto
     and to engage in any lawful activity for which corporations may be
     organized under the Alaska Business Corporation Act.

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                                   ARTICLE IV

          The aggregate number of shares which the corporation shall have
     authority to issue is 1,000 shares of $1 par value common stock.

          We, the undersigned, declare under the penalties of perjury that we
have examined the foregoing and to the best of our knowledge and belief it is
true, correct and complete as of the 4th day of March, 1976.


                                             /s/ Charles R. Gallagher
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                                             Charles R. Gallagher, President


                                             /s/ Phoebe A. Hocken
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                                             Phoebe A. Hocken, Secretary

          I, the undersigned, declare under the penalties of perjury that I have
examined the foregoing and to the best of my knowledge and belief it is true,
correct and complete.


                                             /s/ Phoebe A. Hocken
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                                             Phoebe A. Hocken, Secretary

Dated March 25, 1976

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