Bell 505 goes South to Brazilnews Terry Spruce 7 Sep 15 0Bell Helicopter has started a Jet Ranger X demo tour of Brazil, using the Bell 505 mock-up. The tour began on 3 September in Balneário… Read more
Mecaer Aviation Group validates Bell MAGnificent STC in Brazilnews Terry Spruce 7 Sep 15 0Mecaer Aviation Group (MAG) has successfully validated their VVIP Bell 429 helicopter interior with the Agencia Nacional De Aviacao Civil (ANAC). MAG achieved the original… Read more
Bell delivers 429 to Servicios Aereo Acrossnews Terry Spruce 3 Sep 15 0Bell Helicopter delivers a Bell 429 to Servicios Aereo Across in Mexico. The aircraft is the first Bell 429 delivered to the company. Servicios Aereo… Read more
Med-Trans begins air medical service in McAlester, Oklahomanews Terry Spruce 3 Sep 15 0Med-Trans Corp has begun a critical care air medical flight program serving McAlester Regional Health Center. A Bell 407GX will be based with flight and medical… Read more
Slovakian Police takes its first Bell 429news Terry Spruce 2 Sep 15 0Bell Helicopter has delivered the first Bell 429 to the Slovakian Police. The aircraft will be primarily used for border protection, search and rescue, natural… Read more
Bond Offshore selects Heli-One for H225 maintenancenews Terry Spruce 2 Sep 15 0Heli-One has been chosen as Bond Offshore Helicopters’ service partner for an H225 (reg G-REDR), 9,000 hour G check. ALSO READ: Oil & gas industry… Read more
New H135 completes test campaign in Norwaynews Terry Spruce 2 Sep 15 0Airbus Helicopters have completed a series of tests with the new H135 rotorcraft in Norway. “Anyone can read a flight manual. We wanted to experience… Read more
Bell 505 Assembly Centre in Lafayette opensnews Terry Spruce 28 Aug 15 0Bell Helicopter has opened a new assembly centre in Lafayette. The new centre will assemble the Bell 505 Jet Ranger X. ALSO READ: Bell sells… Read more
NHV H175 logs 1,000 flight service hoursnews Terry Spruce 28 Aug 15 0NHV Group has logged the first 1,000 flight hours with the Airbus Helicopters H175. The 1,000 hours have been accumulated by NHV’s initial two H175s… Read more
Erickson awarded Turkish contractnews Terry Spruce 26 Aug 15 0Erickson has been selected by Pan Aviation to provide emergency fire suppression support for the Municipality of Istanbul. ALSO READ: Erickson introduces S-64 enhancements Erickson… Read more
Bell delivers final Bell 412EP to Philippine DNDnews Terry Spruce 17 Aug 15 0Bell Helicopter has delivered the final of eight Bell 412EP aircraft to the Philippine Department of National Defense (DND). The final delivery was acknowledged during… Read more
AgustaWestland sells a GrandNew in Brazilnews Terry Spruce 13 Aug 15 0AgustaWestland has sold a GrandNew helicopter to Cristalia in Brazil. The company is displaying a GrandNew at LABACE 2015 in Brazil. Nearly 150 helicopters in… Read more
JSSI launches Tip-to-Tail program for AW139news Terry Spruce 13 Aug 15 0Jet Support Services (JSSI) launches its Tip-to-Tail program coverage for the AgustaWestland AW139. The company first introduced its Tip-to-Tail hourly cost maintenance program in 1997… Read more
JSSI launches AS350 parts only program at LABACEnews Terry Spruce 13 Aug 15 0Jet Support Services, Inc. (JSSI), has launched its new parts-only program for the full line of Airbus Helicopters AS350 rotorcraft. “We listened to AS350 owners… Read more
Trio of Bell Helicopters at LABACE 2015news Terry Spruce 11 Aug 15 0Three Bell Helicopters are being displayed at LABACE 2015 at Aeroporto de Congonhas, São Paulo, Brazil. The company is showing the Bell 429WLG, the Bell… Read more
Lockheed buys Sikorskyinsight Alasdair Whyte 11 Aug 15 0When it was selling Sikorsky, United Technology said it was looking to make $4 billion. Lockheed Martin’s acquisition at $9 billion (which works out as… Read more
Metro delivers H125 to Coastal Helicoptersnews Terry Spruce 10 Aug 15 0California-based Coastal Helicopters has taken delivery of a new Airbus Helicopters H125 (formerly the AS350 B3e). Coastal Helicopters now has a fleet of six various… Read more
Erickson introduces S-64 Aircrane enhancementsnews Terry Spruce 4 Aug 15 0Erickson has introduced newly designed and certified enhancements for the S-64 Aircrane. The upgrades aim to improve situational awareness for pilots. ALSO READ: Michael Williams… Read more
Metro Aviation delivers first H145 T2 in North Americanews Terry Spruce 3 Aug 15 0Metro Aviation has delivered the first H145 T2 in North America to Dare MedFlight in North Carolina. It is the company’s 75th H145 completion. ALSO… Read more
Airbus Helicopters delivers first H135 to HTMnews Terry Spruce 30 Jul 15 0Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first H135 for offshore wind operations to Helicopter Travel Munich (HTM) in Germany. The company has contracts from ten windfarms… Read more
