Bell has delivered its 400th Bell 505 to Al Barratt the founder of sports nutrition company Grenade. Barratt took delivery of the helicopter at at Bell’s Mirabel, Canada facility. “Flying in the 505 is...
The UK Department for Transport, has today signed a £1.6 billion ($1.9bn) contract with Bristow Helicopters for the UK’s Second-Generation Search and Rescue Aviation (UKSAR2G). It follows an 18-month procurement process. Bristow has provided...
Milestone Aviation Group has delivered a AW139 helicopter to Heliconia Group. The aircraft will be based in Senegal and used for offshore operations. Pat Sheedy, President & CEO, Milestone, said, “We are delighted to...
Milestone Aviation Group has delivered a second new AW169 helicopter Sloane Helicopters. Sloane is operating the aircraft for The Children’s Air Ambulance UK. The first was delivered in December 2021. The Children’s Air Ambulance specialises in...
Leasing services company LCI Aviation has ordered up to six H175 super-medium helicopters from Airbus, valued at over $125m. The deal follows confirmation of a resurgence in super-medium and heavy helicopter activity earlier this...
Babcock International Group is to sell parts of its aerial emergency services business for €136.2m ($138.2m) to funds managed by infrastructure investor Ancala Partners. The businesses concerned operate a fleet of 232 aircraft across...
Enstrom Helicopter Corporation has appointed Aero Facility Co as its first sales representative in Japan. Aero Facility was a long time representative of the previous Enstrom company, before it went into Chapter 7 bankruptcy,...
Helicopter Investor’s latest Town Hall online meeting predicted a mild-to-moderate US economic recession and “a landing that you can walk away from” plus a 10% fall in the retail sales volume of single-engine, pre-owned...
The Queensland Police Service is buying three Bell 429s for its POLAIR fleet. Set for delivery in the fourth quarter of next year, the helicopters will patrol southeast Queensland coast and support crime fighting...
Bristow Group has staged the inaugural US demonstration flight of the AW609 Tiltrotor. The 60-minute flight, which took place in Philadelphia on May 11th, is a step towards bringing the Tiltrotor into service next...
Bell Textron has signed purchase agreements for seven Bell 505 helicopters with European customers. Two of the purchase agreements were signed by JB Investments, Poland’s longest-operating distributor of light aircraft. Duncan Van De Velde,...