Germany – Hanseatic Helicopter Service adds a Cabri
Source: HeliHub.com, 09-May-13
Hanseatic Helicopter Service, based in the northern German city of Hamburg, has recently added a Guimbal G2 Cabri to their fleet. Purchased via HeliTransair, Guimbal’s 47th Cabri now flies as D-HTAM with Hanseatic. The aircraft is seen here at the handover ceremony with Bruno Guimbal on the left handing the keys over along with Dr. Gerd [...]
Italian distributor expects first Cabri in June
Source: HeliHub.com, 07-May-13
The Italian distributor for Helicoptères Guimbal is expecting their first G2 Cabri in June 2013. Eurotech – based in Caiolo in Lombardy (Sondrio province) – announced their appointment back in February. The manufacturer took a slight detour on their flight from their base in France to the recent Aero exhibition in Germany to go via [...]
Germany – Aeroheli International adds a Cabri
Source: HeliHub.com, 06-May-13
From handover on 2nd April, German operator Aeroheli International completed the first 50 flying hours on their new Cabri in less than three weeks! Guimbal’s 45th Cabri is registered D-HAIG and is in a white colour scheme with distinctive “Cabri” titles. It is based with Aeroheli at Cottbus. The photo shown is the handover ceremony [...]
EASA approves 31 more Lycoming engines for UL91 fuel
Source: Lycoming, 24-Apr-13
Lycoming Engines, a division of Avco Corporation, released Service Instruction SI-1070R in April of 2012, which approved a wide variety of engines for use with ASTM D7547 UL 91 unleaded avgas. European Aviation Safety Administration (EASA) Safety Information Bulletin (SIB) 2011-01 provided aircraft-level approval on the basis of engine approval. Today Lycoming is pleased to [...]
Guimbal extends warranty as one Cabri completes 2000 hours in 32 months
Source: HeliHub.com, 23-Apr-13
Swedish operator has completed 2000 hours on its Cabri SE-HJR (serial 1011) in just 32 months – an average of 62.5 hours per month. In conjunction with this achievement, Guimbal have now significant extended the warranty they offer on new aircraft from “500 hours or two years” to “1,000 hours or three years”, with the [...]
Guimbal addresses Cabri vibration issue at 90-100 knots
Source: Guimbal, 22-Apr-13
In order to make the flight at 90 to 100 kts just as smooth as at lower speeds, Helicopteres Guimbal has developed and qualified new vibration attenuation pendulums (VAP). The principle of these small devices is to oscillate in opposition to the stimulation of rotor blades, thus cancelling the dynamic forces. They are typical of [...]
First UK repeat customer takes Britain’s fourth Cabri
Source: HeliHub.com, 28-Feb-13
Cotswold Helicopters have placed an order with the French manufacturer Guimbal for the fourth UK Cabri. The helicopter is due for delivery in July 2013 and will be operated by Helicentre at Leicester alongside their first example G-CHAG. Helicentre have been very pleased with the Cabri and have flown around 60 hours a month (yes, [...]
Third Cabri sold into UK market
Source: HeliHub.com, 22-Feb-13
A third Guimbal Cabri helicopter has been sold into the UK market, with handover scheduled for Aero 2013, the exhibition at Friedrichshafen in Germany at the end of April. The private purchaser is an experienced helicopter owner, having had two Robinson R22s and three R44s in the last 24 years. He told HeliHub.com that his [...]
China’s Dalian Police train in Germany on Cabri
Source: Heli Aviation, 20-Feb-13
[electronic translation] The police chief and the head of the provincial police force flying Liaoningun inspected with a delegation from the Heli Aviation TRAINING ACADEMY in Augsburg. Impressed by our forward-looking, equipped with state of the art technology flight school, training and expertise of the entire fleet of Heli Aviation teams audited executives the TRAINING [...]
Civil Aviation Flight University of China trains – in Germany
Source: Heli Aviation, 19-Feb-13
[electronic translation] In China it seems the reputation of Heli Aviation TRAINING ACADEMY draw ever larger circles. In order to get over the many positive reports of recent Chinese graduates an idea may be reported to the chief pilot and an instructor of the Civil Aviation Flight University of China (CAFUC) to visit the TRAINING ACADEMY [...]
Hélicoptères Guimbal to attend EHS 2013
Source: EHS 2013, 14-Jan-13
Hélicoptères Guimbal was founded late 2000, with the purpose of developing and certifying the two-seat helicopter Cabri G2. This also involved the full-scale industrialisation for serial production. The programme was based on the achievements of the technological demonstrator that Bruno Guimbal had built and tested in the 90′s. On December the 15th, 2007 in Le [...]
Germany’s Heli Aviation orders its seventh Guimbal Cabri
Source: HeliHub.com, 11-Nov-12
Germany operator Heli Aviation has told HeliHub.com that it has a seventh Cabri on order from French manufacturer Guimbal. The current fleet has amassed over 3,600 flight hours without incident, and sees four at their main base at Augsburg, one at Emmen and the last at Salzburg in Austria. The purchase will build on the [...]
Germany – Free iPad for new trainee pilots of the Heli Aviation
Source: Heli Aviation, 22-Oct-12
From now on, new trainee pilots of the Heli Aviation TRAINING ACADEMY will receive an Apple iPad with electronic training documents as a gift at the start of training! With its electronic documents, the iPad makes up-to-date learning possible. It facilitates the pilot’s everyday routine throughout the entire training and beyond. In the theoretical training, [...]
Helicentre becomes second in UK to offer Cabri G2 training
Source: Helicentre, 03-Sep-12
Helicentre Aviation Ltd. has become the second UK Flight Training Organisation to gain CAA approval to deliver the Guimbal Cabri G2 type rating as well as their full range of professional courses on the new type. The approval coincides with the arrival of the second Cabri G2 to be added to the UK register, collected [...]
Germany’s Heli Aviation takes delivery of their 6th Cabri
Source: Heli Aviation, 31-Aug-12
[Electronic translation of local language press release] Last Friday, the D-HAVH landed in Augsburg, it is the sixth Heli Aviation Cabri G2. Launch – in time for the completion of the new building also Heli Aviation TRAINING ACADEMY Guimbal the helicopter with the serial number 1038 will begin to operate. On their national and international [...]
Second Cabri G2 expected in UK next week
Source: HeliHub.com, 22-Jun-12
Cotswold Helicopters, UK distributor for the Guimbal Cabri G2 helicopter, are expecting to take delivery of the second British example of the type before the end of June – subject to the weather, which has quite frankly been appalling here in the UK for some weeks now! The helicopter is completed in an overall silver-grey [...]
Guimbal develops iPad dock for Cabri
Source: HeliHub.com, 25-May-12
Helicopteres Guimbal have developed a new iPad docking station for the Cabri cockpit under the name FlyPad – which they have registered as a trademark. The design allows for the iPad to be landscape or portrait, with a facility to just fold it away against the side of the instrument binnacle if required. While in [...]
36th Cabri is first in Denmark
Source: HeliHub.com, 23-May-12
Helicopteres Guimbal have recently delivered Cabri serial number 1036 to Air Service Vamdrup, where it is now flying as OY-HJI. The Danish dealer is Air Service Vamdrup Aps, based at Vamdrup close to the city of Kolding. The company was founded in 1988 by Bent Iversen and has now grown to around 20 employees. The [...]
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 [...]
First UK pilot goes solo on Guimbal Cabri
Source: HeliHub.com, 27-Mar-12
Cotswold Helicopter Centre, the UK distributor for the Guimbal Cabri, has achieved the milestone of the first UK student pilot to solo on the French two-seat helicopter. On Friday 23rd March, Craig Davies – a company director aged 48 – made history in the Cabri G2 G-UIMB, achieving his solo after the legal minimum of [...]
Elite pilots eager to fly in Cabri helicopter
Source: HeliHub.com, 08-Mar-12
British Guimbal dealer, Cotswold Helicopter Centre, are taking their Cabri G2 to Goodwood this Saturday at an event hosted by operator Elite Helicopters. At least 15 pilots, perhaps as many as 20, are expecting to have a flight in the Guimbal Cabri in the first such event in the UK. Cotswold are expecting to repeat [...]
Cabri returns to UK and prepares for sales tour
Source: HeliHub.com, 27-Feb-12
The Guimbal Cabri G2 first arrived in the UK just before Helitech, and generated a lot of attention. Designer Bruno Guimbal flew in from France for the event, and the aircraft was presented by exclusive UK distributor Cotswold Helicopter Centre. The Cabri is receiving increased interest from various countries, and the manufacturer has in recent [...]
Guimbal adds distributors in Czech Republic and Denmark
Source: HeliHub.com, 13-Jan-12
French light helicopter manufacturer Helicopteres Guimbal have added distributors in Czech Republic and Denmark according to their website. The Danish dealer is Air Service Vamdrup Aps, based at Vandrup close to the city of Kolding. The company was founded in 1988 by Bent Iversen and has now grown to around 20 employees. The company will [...]
Service Letter to be issued for Guimbal Cabri
Source: HeliHub.com, 03-Nov-11
Following a recent incident to the first Guimbal G2 Cabri in the UK, Helicopteres Guimbal has issued the following statement via HeliHub.com:- We at Helicopteres Guimbal are saddened to announce that two days after receiving its Certificate of Airworthiness from the CAA, the first Cabri in the UK had an incident that will delay its [...]
Cabri G2 now fully UK certified
Source: HeliHub.com, 25-Oct-11
The UK CAA yesterday issued all the necessary documentation for the Guimbal Cabri G2, making it fully certified for use in the UK. Local distributor Cotswold Helicopter Centre, who had a very positive response to this new type at Helitech recently, tell HeliHub.com that they are starting type ratings on their demonstrator next week. They [...]
Elite Helicopters to host Cabri demo
Source: Elite Helicopters, 05-Oct-11
Our students, clients, instructors and admin staff were invited to view the new Guimbal Cabri G2 2-seat helicopter at Helitech this week, and everybody was supremely impressed with this wonderful new aircraft. So much so, that we have arranged with the UK distributor to bring the Cabri to Goodwood in the very near future, where [...]
Germany’s Heli Aviation orders two more Cabris
Source: HeliHub.com, 29-Sep-11
German operator Heli Aviation has recently confirmed orders for two more Guimbal Cabri helicopters following great success and high utilization with their first two. Operating from Augsburg near Munich, the company has flown 800 hours in 15 months on their first aircraft, and are flying the second at a similar rate – it equates to [...]
Cabri generates lots of interest at Helitech
Source: HeliHub.com, 28-Sep-11
From our regular walks up and down the static park, the helicopter generating the most interest looks to be the two seater Guimbal Cabri G2. Having not appeared at Helitech before, the French-built aircraft has been delivered in the last few days to Cotswold Helicopter Centre, the new UK distributor. They are expecting a second [...]
First British Cabri on schedule for Helitech
Source: HeliHub.com, 19-Sep-11
The first Cabri G2 from French manufacturer Guimbal is in flight test and on schedule to arrive in the UK late next week in time for Helitech. Serial 1028 is painted dark Concord Blue metallic with silver grey skids and a beige leather interior, and will take up British registration G-UIMB in due course. Handover [...]
Conklin & de Decker adds Cabri to latest Life Cycle Cost software
Source: Conklin & de Decker, 23-Aug-11
Conklin & de Decker announced the latest release of their innovative LIFE CYCLE COST 2011 Volume II. The most comprehensive aircraft budget and financial analysis tool available, LIFE CYCLE COST from Conklin & de Decker, provides aircraft owners, operators, flight department managers, and aircraft consultants with extensive ownership and operating cost data for nearly 400 [...]
Three new helicopter models expected at Helitech 2011
28-Jul-11
Three new helicopters are due to make their UK debuts at Helitech this year. Europe’s largest dedicated helicopter exhibition takes place at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, near Cambridge in the United Kingdom, from 27-29 September. Launched earlier this year Eurocopter’s EC145 T2 has yet to be seen on display at an event in [...]
Where are the first 20 Guimbal Cabri helicopters?
Source: HeliHub.com, 12-Jul-11
As part of HeliHub.com news service, we are going to address a number of questions we hear in the industry. We expect many of these to be data-related, drawing on the strength that the HeliHub.com news team bring to their strong news reporting across the global helicopter industry. Look out for the answer to the [...]
Guimbal appoints UK dealer for Cabri
Source: HeliHub.com, 07-Jun-11
Helicopteres Guimbal have told HeliHub.com that a dealer has been appointed to sell the Cabri into EUrope’s biggest civil helicopter market – the United Kingdom. Cotswold Helicopters, based at Kemble in Gloucestershire (also known as Cotswold Airport), have signed a dealership agreement with the French manufacturer and will be operating serial number 1028 later this [...]
First Cabri G2 delivered into Switzerland
Source: HeliHub.com, 10-Mar-11
Guimbal Helicopteres has today delivered its first Cabri G2 to Switzerland, the 22nd aircraft off the production line. Its operator will be Procopter at Grenchen, who will begin to operate this helicopter immediately, including participation in a major air show this weekend, or 10,000 people are expected. Procopter becoming our distributor for this region, and [...]
Guimbal prepares to deliver first Cabri to Australia
Source: HeliHub.com, 26-Jan-11
French manufacturer Helicopteres Guimbal is preparing to deliver the first Cabri G2 into the Australian market. Bankstown-based HTT (Helicopter Transport and Training) has two on order following the November 2010 type approval by CASA (see certificate here). We await with interest how the Cabri performs for this operator, who is well versed in flying the [...]
Guimbal Cabri gets EASA approval for floats
Source: HeliHub.com, 26-Jan-11
Bruno Giumbal proudly announced yesterday the certification by EASA of floats for his G2 Cabri light helicopter. Bruno’s company Helicopteres Guimbal has been working on this certification for tWo years, although that length of time has been due to the other priorities they have had in getting new helicopters delivered. The result is worthy of [...]
Netherlands becomes latest country for Cabri G2
Source: HeliHub.com, 28-Sep-10
Netherlands has become the fifth country to operate the Guimbal Cabri G2 Рafter France, Germany, Monaco and Sweden. Operator Helicon has recently registered Cabri PH-WTW, serial 1003, and will operate it from Lelystad. This airframe was previously F-GXRU with French operator Ixair, who are no longer flying Helicon have a website at http://www.helicon-helicopters.com/ Manufacturer H̩licopt̬res [...]
Ixair flight school re-launched by Heli-Challenge
02-Sep-10
Heli-Challenge relaunches the flight school department of what was known as Ixair before it ceased operations. They operate Cabri G2 helicopters
Savback Helicopter becomes Cabri dealer for Sweden and Norway
Source: HeliHub.com, 23-May-10
As Helicopteres Guimbal gradually ramps up its production rate, almost every airframe off the production line is creating a news story. And so with production number 1011 under the Swedish registration SE-JRH was delivered this last week to Savback Helicopters in Sweden. Savback has announced on their dedicated website http://www.cabri.se that they have exclusive rights [...]
First accident of a Guimbal Cabri G2
Source: HeliHub.com, 20-Apr-10
Monday was a sad day for French helicopter manufacturer Guimbal as they recorded the first accident of one of their Cabri G2 two-seaters at Șllingen Airport in Germany. More details here Рthe two occupants were not injured at all. HeliHub.com has a very extensive Safety data section, often picking up data on accidents not [...]
Cabri now available to fly in German helicopter school
Source: HeliHub.com, 23-Mar-10
Heli Aviation at Nördlingen Airport has received their first Cabri G2 from the French manufacturer Helicopteres Guimbal, and becomes the first helicopter school in Germany to offer the type on their fleet. A second example is due to join the fleet in the autumn of this year. Heli-Aviation also offer ab initio training on the [...]
First Cabri G2 delivered to Eurocopter
Source: Rotorhub, 10-Dec-09
On the 24th of November, at Aix-les-Milles airport, Eurocopter took delivery of its first Cabri G2 from Helicopteres Guimbal.
