GKN Aerospace to upgrade UK RAF Puma fuel tanks
Source: GKN Aerospace, 27-Mar-13
GKN Aerospace has been contracted by Eurocopter UK to develop upgraded fuel tanks as part of the UK RAF’s life extension programme (LEP) for its fleet of Puma helicopters. The new self-sealing fuel tanks will enhance the helicopter’s survivability in today’s theatres of operation, providing extended protection for the crew against weapons such as heavy [...]
Shadin Avionics announces AIS Fuel Flow system on new Bell 412EPI
Source: Shadin Avionics, 06-Mar-13
Shadin Avionics, a global leader in aircraft fuel management solutions, announces the installation of the Shadin Avionics AIS Fuel Flow system on the Bell 412 Helicopter EPI. Shadin Avionics continues its legacy of fuel management solutions by offering the new AIS Fuel Flow “Behind the Glass” system. The 412 EPI installation includes the new Shadin [...]
FAA and Spain cooperate in alternative aviation fuels
Source: FAA, 01-Mar-13
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Spanish Aviation Safety and Security Agency (AESA) signed a Declaration of Cooperation to promote the development and use of sustainable alternative aviation fuels in the United States and Spain. The Declaration was signed by Carey Fagan, FAA Executive Director for International Affairs, and Isabel Maestre Moreno, Director of [...]
Robertson Fuel Systems awarded $7M option for CV-22 aux fuel tanks
Source: US DoD, 01-Feb-13
Robertson Fuel Systems L.L.C., Tempe, Ariz., is being awarded a $7,073,997 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-12-C-0097) to exercise the option for the procurement of 15 CV-22 Mission Auxiliary Fuel Tank Systems (MATS) and associated equipment required to support squadron stand-ups. Work will be performed in Tempe, Ariz., and is expected to be [...]
US and Germany sign alternative aviation fuels agreement
Source: HAI, 18-Sep-12
On Fri., Sept. 14, at the ILA Berlin Air Show, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS) formally agreed to a cooperative effort to develop sustainable aviation fuels. The agreement was signed on behalf of the FAA by Philip Murphy, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, and by [...]
Helicopter Fuel-Savings Program Expands to Europe
Source: JTI Air Holdings, 31-Aug-12
Using gasoline as an alternative helicopter fuel is not only better for the environment, but also more cost efficient, Fuller says. In Europe, JTI’s automotive gasoline supplemental type certificates (STCs) are sold by company representative Joop van Weele of Holland. (Seehttp://www.vliegwerkholland.nl/autofuel.html for info.) Leaded helicopter fuel is being phased out worldwide due to environmental concerns. JTI Air Holdings has led [...]
R44 and R22 among types approved by EASA for UL91 unleaded fuel
Source: Lycoming, 19-Jul-12
Lycoming Continues Call for ‘UL 100’ as a Fleetwide Solution Williamsport, PA – July 18th, 2012 – Lycoming Engines, a division of Avco Corporation, released Service Instruction SI-1070R on April 16th, 2012, which approved a wide variety of engines for use with ASTM D7547 UL 91 unleaded avgas. European Aviation Safety Administration (EASA) Safety Information [...]
Unleaded Avgas transition final report now available
Source: FAA, 28-Jun-12
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is committed to developing a fiscally responsible action plan to meet the agency’s goal of making an unleaded fuel available for most of the general aviation fleet to replace 100 octane low-lead (100LL) by 2018. The Unleaded Avgas Transition Aviation Rulemaking Committee (UAT ARC) submitted a final report to the [...]
Robinson offers $1,000 rebate on R44 bladder tank kits
Source: Robinson, 19-Jun-12
Addressed to “All R44 Dealers, Service Centers and Owners” (original pdf here) Robinson Helicopter Co. (RHC) is offering a U.S $1,000 rebate to all R44 owners who purchase and install the KI-196 Kit, in accordance with SB-78A, on or before December 31, 2012. To receive the rebate, the owner must provide RHC with the aircraft [...]
13 Aviation Trade Groups Urge Congress to Support Biofuels
Source: HAI, 25-May-12
Thirteen aviation trade associations representing all facets of the industry authored a letter to Senators Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), urging them to support U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) efforts to “research, test, and deploy biofuels in the aviation sector.” “It is our collective belief that the ongoing efforts of the United States [...]
AVX awarded US Army fuel efficiency study contract
Source: AVX Aircraft, 11-May-12
AVX Aircraft Company today announced that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Contracting Command in New Jersey to study technology approaches to improve fuel efficiency in vertical lift aircraft. AVX is a member of the Vertical Lift Consortium, Inc. (“VLC”) and responded to the Army request for proposal in 2011, administered [...]
FAA approves Dart Auxiliary Fuel Tank for AS350/EC130
Source: DART Helicopter Services, 25-Apr-12
DART Helicopter Services is pleased to announce FAA approval of DART Aerospace Ltd.’s (DAS) newly improved Auxiliary Fuel Tank for the AS350 series of aircraft and the EC 130 B4. The newly improved Auxiliary Fuel Tank provides additional fuel capacity that can be transferred to the main fuel tank as desired in order to extend [...]
Multiflight renews Air Total fuel contract
Source: Multiflight, 23-Apr-12
Multiflight has re-signed with fuel supplier AIR TOTAL for another three years. The renewed three-year fuel supply agreement is for the supply of Avgas and Avtur fuel at Multiflight’s private aviation facility at Leeds Bradford International Airport, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. Multiflight owns and operates a 180,000 litre Avtur/JetA1 fuel farm, along with Avtur Fuel [...]
Lycoming releases first series of UL 91 unleaded avgas approvals
Source: Lycoming, 18-Apr-12
Just weeks after Lycoming Engines, a division of Avco Corporation, announced it would seek Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval to operate certain engines on ASTM D7547 UL 91 unleaded avgas, it has received FAA approval to update its listing of approved fuels. Lycoming’s newly available Service Instruction SI-1070R lists 35 engine models approved to operate [...]
Approval pending for UL91 unleaded avgas on Lycoming engines
Source: Lycoming, 22-Mar-12
Lycoming Engines, a division of Avco Corporation, has submitted for ASTM D7547 UL 91 unleaded avgas approval on numerous engine models across the 233, 235, 320 and 360 engine families. Engines in the 540 family will follow as Lycoming completes additional validation. UL 91 has entered into distribution in Europe largely to serve engines approved [...]
HAI joins trade groups in fixing fuel tax
Source: HAI, 22-Feb-12
HAI President Matt Zuccaro, along with the presidents of seven other aviation trade associations, sent a letter to the chairmen and ranking members of the U.S. House of Representatives aviation and highway subcommittees on Feb. 10, urging them to repeal the “fuel fraud” provision that was introduced in the 2005 surface transportation act which adds [...]
All American Helicopters Heli-Expo parking/fuel discount
Source: All American Helicopters, 30-Jan-12
All American Helicopters parent company, US Aviation is offering a HELI-EXPO special for all attendees and display aircraft flying to HELI-EXPO. They are offering free parking and a fuel discount of $.30/gal on the already lowest fuel prices in the Dallas Metroplex. The deal includes both Avgas and Jeet A. All major rental cars are [...]
Meggitt details fuel/fire protection for S-97 Raider
Source: Meggitt, 13-Jan-12
Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX) has selected Meggitt Polymer & Composites and Meggitt Safety Systems for the newly-formed team building a next-generation helicopter—known as the S-97 Raider™—for evaluation by the US military. Meggitt’s failsafe technology will prevent aircraft fuel systems from rupturing from the impact of crashes or bullets, while its [...]
Spectrum to provide fuel system kit for S-97 Raider
Source: Spectrum Associates, 13-Jan-12
Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. UTX -1.50% has selected Spectrum Associates, Inc. as a member of a newly-formed team that is building the S-97 RAIDER(TM) helicopter — a next-generation rotorcraft to be flown in 2014. Spectrum will design and integrate the components that comprise the fuel system into the aircraft, and will provide Sikorsky with [...]
FAA invests in cleaner, more sustainable jet fuel
Source: FAA, 01-Dec-11
WASHINGTON – The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is awarding $7.7 million in contracts to eight companies to help advance alternative, environmentally-friendly, sustainable sources for commercial jet fuel. The FAA funds are being distributed by the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) John A. Volpe Center. “These new green aviation fuels will use energy sources right here at [...]
Fuel syphoned from police helicopter
28-Oct-11
Kenyan Police are holding a KK security group guard after he was found with 40 litres of jet fuel siphoned from a police helicopter at Wilson Airport. (see full story)
Robertson Fuel Systems awarded $16M for V-22 fuel tanks
Source: US DoD, 14-Oct-11
Robertson Fuel Systems, L.L.C., Tempe, Ariz., is being awarded a $16,754,932 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00019-08-D-0009) for the procurement of 24 mission auxiliary fuel tank systems and related hardware for the V-22 aircraft. Work will be performed in Tempe, Ariz., and is expected to be completed in December 2012. Contract [...]
Emco Wheaton ensures safe hot refueling of helicopters
Source: Emco Wheaton, 05-Oct-11
The hot refueling of helicopters is a potentially hazardous and dangerous operation but is a necessity in time sensitive operations where it can make the difference between life and death. Developed for the UK Ministry of Defense to use in combat situations and now being specified by the US Forest Service and FAA, the G457 [...]
US and Australia to develop clean sustainable alternative aviation fuels
Source: FAA, 14-Sep-11
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Australia’s Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism have reached a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to continue research and development of clean, sustainable alternative aviation fuels. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Australian Ambassador to the United States Kim Beazley signed the agreement today. [...]
Aerial Agricultural Association of Australia says carbon tax will hinder aviation
Source: Brisbane Times, 24-Jul-11
The Aerial Agricultural Association of Australia, which represents the aviation companies involved in firefighting, crop spraying and oil-spill clean-ups, warned the carbon tax was a “direct attack” on the industry for “absolutely no benefit”. Adding six cents a litre to aviation fuel, chief execctive Philip Hurst said that companies will struggle with the price hike [...]
Solazyme announces successful MH-60S test flight blended algae-based fuel
Source: Solazyme, 22-Jun-11
Solazyme, Inc, a renewable oil and bioproducts company, announced today that the US Navy successfully demonstrated Solazyme’s 100% algal-derived jet fuel, SolajetHRJ-5®, in an MH-60S Seahawk helicopter test flight in a 50/50 blend with petroleum-derived jet fuel. This marks the first military aircraft to fly on an algal-based jet fuel in history. This test flight [...]
NATA concerned with environmental group’s actions on Avgas
Source: NATA, 13-May-11
This week, the Center for Environmental Health (CEH), an environmental group located in San Francisco, Calif., has charged numerous aviation businesses in California, including aviation fuel suppliers and fixed base operators, with violating California state law for selling aviation gasoline, which contains lead. The notices indicate CEH’s intention to file a lawsuit under state law, [...]
New hangar plans progress for Air Evac Lifeteam at Portsmouth, Ohio
Source: HeliHub.com, 20-Mar-11
The Portsmouth City Planning Commission voted in recent days to allow Air Evac Lifeteam to build a hangar at their existing helipad between 11th and 12th Streets. The plans include allowand for installation of an above-ground fuel storage tank. No objections were raised by State Fire Marshal’s Office or the Portsmouth Fire Department. Most of [...]
NATA releases 2011 revision of Refuelling And Quality Control Guide
Source: NATA, 06-Jan-11
The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) is pleased to announce the availability of the 2011 revision of its popular guidebook Refueling and Quality Control Procedures for Airport Service and Support Operations. The 2011 revision is a complete update that contains an in-depth review of topics relating to aviation fuel handling, with full-color photographs in a new [...]
Honeywell Green Jet Fuel(TM) powers Dutch Apache flight
Source: Honeywell, 18-Jun-10
UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced today that Honeywell Green Jet Fuel(TM) produced using its Green Jet Fuel process technology powered a Boeing AH-64D Apache helicopter flown by the Royal Netherlands Air Force. The flight, which is the first helicopter flight using sustainable aviation biofuels to date, was conducted at Gilze-Rijen Airbase, the home of [...]
Eurocopter and BioCombustibles del Chubut in aviation biofuel evaluation
18-Jun-10
The creation of an aviation biofuel production facility in Brazil will be evaluated by EADS, Eurocopter and BioCombustibles del Chubut under terms of a cooperative agreement signed at this month’s ILA Berlin Air Show. The accord will benefit from the pioneering work in algae-based biofuels already conducted by EADS and BioCombustibles del Chubut, and it [...]
EnviroTankers to Showcase New Fueling Solution at Heli-Expo 2010
Source: Envirotankers, 12-Feb-10
EnviroTankers Inc. and EnviroTankers International Inc. the premier makers of EPA & SPCC compliant double walled fuel storage and delivery products recently announced they will be showcasing a new fueling solution for smaller projects or to service light to medium helicopters at Heli-Expo in Houston, February 21st to 23rd 2010. Alongside one of their upgraded [...]
FAA Efforts On Alternative Aviation Fuels Lauded
Source: FAA, 15-Jan-10
The Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuel Initiative (CAAFI), a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) sponsored effort to develop environmentally-sound, sustainable-alternative jet fuels, has received “one of the most coveted and valued honors” by a leading aviation-industry publication. Air Transport World’s Joseph S. Murphy Industry Service Award is given to an individual or an organization that has performed [...]
Wall Street Heliport Wants to Install a 4,000 Gallon Gas Tank
08-Dec-09
A proposal to install a 4,000-gallon above-ground gas tank at a downtown heliport has raised concerns among residents who fear it poses a safety risk and could become a terrorist target.
UTRC Pioneers Fuel Cell-Powered Rotorcraft Flight
Source: UTRC, 30-Nov-09
United Technologies Research Center achieved first flight of a hydrogen/air fuel cell-powered rotorcraft. The successful technology demonstration was accomplished using a remote-controlled electric helicopter model modified to incorporate a custom Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell power plant.
EnviroTankers Showcases Remote Area Refueling Solution at Heli-Expo
Source: Vertical Magazine, 19-Feb-09
Aviatrix becomes preferred Bell Helicopter Fuel Cell Distributor for EFC
Source: Vertical Magazine, 19-Feb-09
