To announce at shows or not to announce at shows? That’s the question for OEMs planning their event coverage. Airbus generally prefers big announcements to dominate the headlines whereas Sikorsky often forgoes any fanfare....
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Leonardo’s TH-119 has been selected as the US Navy’s new training helicopter – beating bids from Bell and Airbus for the $176m deal. The US Navy invited OEMs to compete for a contract to...
Whilst commercial aviation orders might have been the talk of the town at the Dubai Air Show this week, several helicopter orders were also announced at the show. Bell, Leonardo and Rostec announced orders...
It’s not altogether clear whether the market log-jam for pre-owned helicopters is loosening up. However, there may be some odd signs judging from Aero Asset’s third quarter report this year. One of the stalwarts...
The European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) is never really the go-to event for the civil helicopter market outside of those VIP-niche companies – but key OEMs are always in attendance and announce...
Bell has received type certification from the Civil Aviation Administration of China to operate the Bell 407GXi light-single helicopter in China. In May last year, Bell received type certification for the 505 in anticipation...
Bell has unveiled the final design of its air taxi – the Bell Nexus. Bell Flight took the stage at CES 2019 today to reveal the configuration and a full-scale model of its VTOL...
Starting tomorrow, January 8, all eyes will be on Las Vegas to find out the latest in all things tech – including VTOLs. In 2018, Volocopter made headlines by flying ex-computer hardware giant Intel’s...
Bell Helicopter is closing down one of its main assembly facilities at the Lafayette Regional Airport in Louisiana after the Louisiana Economic Development (LED) cancelled the contract to support the project. The state of...
Cautious optimism summed up the mood on the first day of Helicopter Investor’s London […]
Airspace Experience Technologies (ASX) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kansas-based aerostructures […]
Following a partnership with Asian super app Grab earlier this week, Volocopter announced today […]
At the turn of the millennia, the helicopter leasing market did not exist. But […]
German eVTOL pioneer Volocopter has partnered with Southeast Asian delivery, payment, and delivery services […]
The future of helicopter leasing will take centre stage at Helicopter Investor’s London 2020 […]
Airbus Helicopters saw orders and deliveries fall in 2019, but the decline didn’t impact […]
Babcock has written down £85m on the book values of its “predominantly oil and […]
About 4,100 civil helicopters are expected to be delivered to customers worldwide over the […]
Sales in the pre-owned helicopter market fell year-on-year in 2019, according to Aero Assets’ […]