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HeliOffshore Releases v3 of its Flightpath Management recommendations

HeliOffshore Releases v3 of its Flightpath Management recommendations

17-Feb-2023Source: HeliOffshore

On 16 February 2023, HeliOffshore released Version 3.0 of its Recommended Practices for Flightpath Management, developed in close collaboration with, and intended for, offshore helicopter operators. The aim of the report is to enhance ongoing safety efforts and standardisation across the industry, providing operators with the tools and knowledge they need to prepare flightpath management... Read more

UK CAA updates Standards document for offshore helicopter landing areas

UK CAA updates Standards document for offshore helicopter landing areas

16-Feb-2023Source: CAA

Edition 9 of CAP 437 Standards for offshore helicopter landing areas has now been published. It provides the criteria applied by the CAA in assessing the standards of offshore helicopter landing areas for worldwide use by helicopters registered in the United Kingdom. This new edition includes updates and modifications to the material on helideck movement, meteorological information... Read more

Nova Systems pick Smith Myers for Bristow SAR2G contract

Nova Systems pick Smith Myers for Bristow SAR2G contract

16-Feb-2023Source: Smith Myers

Smith Myers ARTEMIS Mobile Phone Location and Communications system has been selected by Nova Systems to be integrated into the Nova Systems airborne mission system that will be fitted onto the helicopter fleet deployed on UK’s second-generation SAR (Search and Rescue) program — known as UKSAR2G. The contract builds on the existing UK Maritime Coast Guard... Read more

Milestone Expands its Partnership with Bristow

Milestone Expands its Partnership with Bristow

16-Feb-2023Source: Milestone Aviation

The Milestone Aviation Group Limited (“Milestone”), the global leader in helicopter leasing, today announced the expansion of its partnership with Bristow Group Inc. (“Bristow”) for Search and Rescue (SAR) missions with the lease of two Leonardo AW189 helicopters, and four Sikorsky S-92 helicopters. Under the agreement, Milestone completed a purchase-leaseback of a new AW189 helicopter... Read more

Safran Helicopter Engines tests “more-electric” variant of Ardiden-based engine

Safran Helicopter Engines tests “more-electric” variant of Ardiden-based engine

16-Feb-2023Source: Safran Helicopter Engines

Safran Helicopter Engines has successfully completed ground tests of a “more-electric” variant of its Tech TP turboprop engine at its Tarnos facility. The Ardiden 3-based technological demonstrator incorporates technologies from Clean Sky1 ACHIEVE project, resulting in more efficient and more sustainable operating modes. ACHIEVE (Advanced mechatronics devices for a novel turboprop electric starter-generator and health monitoring... Read more

Saudi Arabia seeks to improve aviation safety with UK CAA assistance

Saudi Arabia seeks to improve aviation safety with UK CAA assistance

16-Feb-2023Source: CAAi

The General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and CAA International (CAAi), part of the UK CAA, have signed a regulator-to-regulator partnership to assess and enhance Saudi Arabia’s aviation safety regulatory frameworks in line with global best-practice. The agreement was signed on Tuesday by Captain Sulaiman Almuhaimedi, Executive Vice President of... Read more

Blade completes eVTOL flight at New York business airport

Blade completes eVTOL flight at New York business airport

16-Feb-2023Source: Blade Air Mobility

Blade Air Mobility, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLDE, “Blade”), a technology-powered air mobility platform and BETA Technologies (“BETA”), an electric aerospace company developing EVA (also known as eVTOL) and supporting charging infrastructure, announced the successful completion of a historic test flight of BETA’s ALIA-250 EVA at the Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York. The flight... Read more

State Representative to speak at American Helicopter Museum & Education Center

State Representative to speak at American Helicopter Museum & Education Center

16-Feb-2023Source: American Helicopter Museum & Education Center

State Representative Chris Pielli (D-Chester) will speak at the American Helicopter Museum & Education Center (AHMEC) on Saturday, February 25, at 2:30 p.m. for the unveiling of a banner honoring Captain Joseph H. Hairston, who is believed to be the U.S. Army’s first Black helicopter pilot. Rep. Pielli will join AHMEC volunteer James Palmer, who will open the... Read more

Sikorsky awarded $8M contract for removal of HH-60W test instruments

Sikorsky awarded $8M contract for removal of HH-60W test instruments

16-Feb-2023Source: US DoD

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Connecticut, has been awarded an $8,324,455 cost-reimbursement, cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price, and fixed-price incentive contract modification (P00216) to previously awarded FA8629-14-C-2403 for removing test instruments from an HH-60W aircraft so that it is fully operational. The modification brings the total cumulative face value of the contract to $5,062,847,117. Work will be performed in... Read more

New RACQ LifeFlight doctors on board to save lives

New RACQ LifeFlight doctors on board to save lives

16-Feb-2023Source: RACQ LifeFlight

Thirty new RACQ LifeFlight Rescue Critical Care Doctors have joined the ranks at aeromedical bases across the state, excited to kickstart a career in saving lives in the sky. The new registrars have come from far and wide, with some travelling from overseas to join LifeFlight’s crucial aeromedical service, while others jumped at the chance... Read more

Joby Begins Final Assembly of First Company-Conforming Aircraft

Joby Begins Final Assembly of First Company-Conforming Aircraft

16-Feb-2023Source: Joby Aviation

Joby Aviation, Inc. (NYSE:JOBY), a company developing all-electric aircraft for commercial passenger service, announced it has begun final assembly of what is believed to be the world’s first company-conforming electric, vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The aircraft, which is the first to be produced at Joby’s pilot manufacturing facility in Marina, California, has been... Read more

Castilla-La Mancha renews EMS contract with Babcock Spain

Castilla-La Mancha renews EMS contract with Babcock Spain

15-Feb-2023

Babcock MCS España has retained the EMS contract for the Spanish province of Castilla-La Mancha for the next four years. The company will continue to provide two Airbus H135 and two H145 helicopters from bases at Albacete, Toledo, Ciudad Real and Cuenca. Contract value is around 43 million euros.  Two of the four aircraft included... Read more

HAL and Safran advance partnership for IMRH engine

HAL and Safran advance partnership for IMRH engine

15-Feb-2023Source: Safran Helicopter Engines

Safran Helicopter Engines and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) have signed a workshare agreement for the joint development of the engine intended for the future 13-ton IMRH (Indian Multi-Role Helicopter) and its naval version DBMRH (Deck Based Multi-Role Helicopter). This agreement follows the MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) signed on 8th July 2022 and stipulates the sharing... Read more

Babcock and IAI collaborate for emergency services drone applications

Babcock and IAI collaborate for emergency services drone applications

15-Feb-2023Source: Babcock

Babcock Australasia (Babcock) and Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd (IAI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to pursue remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) solutions for law enforcement, maritime surveillance, and disaster management applications in Australia. With the signing of the MOU, Babcock and IAI are planning to undertake a series of in-country demonstrations of two of... Read more

Rotorcorp doubles parts inventory to hedge against long lead times

Rotorcorp doubles parts inventory to hedge against long lead times

15-Feb-2023Source: Rotorcorp

Long lead times and manufacturing delays persist across many sectors as the world emerges from the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, delays that remain steadfast in the highly-technical and heavily-regulated aerospace sector. In response, Rotorcorp has doubled our available on-hand spare parts inventory (already the world’s largest) in 2023 as a way to mitigate... Read more

106th Rescue Wing trains with US Marine Corps Reserve crews

106th Rescue Wing trains with US Marine Corps Reserve crews

15-Feb-2023Source: Gabreski Air National Guard

Airmen of the 101st Rescue Squadron from the New York Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing teamed up with Marine Corp Reserve aviators for a tactical refueling and personnel recovering training exercise at F.S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base on February 2, 2023. Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 773, known as the Red Dogs, is a... Read more

Enstrom names the new incoming president

Enstrom names the new incoming president

15-Feb-2023Source: Enstrom

Enstrom enters a new era of growth and expansion with new leadership at the helm. We are delighted to welcome Todd Tetzlaff back to the Enstrom family as incoming president. Todd is no stranger to the company. He first set foot in the Menominee, MI factory more than three decades ago when, while still a... Read more

Karen Helicopter Services receives 2 B505s

Karen Helicopter Services receives 2 B505s

15-Feb-2023Source: Karen Helicopter Services

Karen, Swiss based helicopter service provider, has announced that it has taken delivery of two brand new Bell 505 helicopters, HB-ZXE and HB-ZXL, to modernise the current single-engine fleet consisting of three Bell/Agusta-Bell 206. As part of a strategic investment plan to update the current fleet, Karen will use these aircraft for commercial flights and... Read more

Schweizer appoints North American Helicopter Sales Manager

Schweizer appoints North American Helicopter Sales Manager

15-Feb-2023Source: Schweizer

Schweizer is thrilled to announce Robert Grimmett has joined the Schweizer team as the company’s North American Sales Manager. In his position, he is responsible for aircraft and parts sales, service support, and market development in the United States and Canada. A savvy business professional, Grimmett comes to the Schweizer with a wealth of experience... Read more

BRP Antonio Luna crew briefed on ASW helicopter ops

BRP Antonio Luna crew briefed on ASW helicopter ops

15-Feb-2023Source: Philippine News Agency

The Philippine Navy (PN)’s Anti-Submarine Helicopter Squadron 42 conducted a series of lectures connections in connection with shipboard helicopter operations for the crew of missile frigate BRP Antonio Luna (FF-151) to ensure the seamless integration of the two units in anti-submarine warfare (ASW) operations. “As part of the integration process of AgustaWestland AW-159 ‘Wildcat’ to... Read more

Sikorsky Delivers 2 More CH-53K to US Marine Corps

Sikorsky Delivers 2 More CH-53K to US Marine Corps

14-Feb-2023Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT), delivered two CH-53K helicopters to the U.S. Marine Corps in the final quarter of 2022. These CH-53K heavy lift helicopters join the seven already in operation at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River in Jacksonville, North Carolina. “Sikorsky’s employees are using advanced technologies to manufacture the CH-53K helicopter, which... Read more

Garuda Aerospace raises $22M

Garuda Aerospace raises $22M

14-Feb-2023Source: Zee Business

Drone startup Garuda Aerospace on Monday said it has raised $22 million which is touted as the largest-ever Series A funding in the drone sector. Venture capital firm SphitiCap invested $12 mn along with participation from other global investors, angel investors and high networth individuals (HNIs) at $5 million. See Full Story.... Read more

FAA urges use of “Do Not Shine at Aircraft” label for lasers

FAA urges use of “Do Not Shine at Aircraft” label for lasers

14-Feb-2023Source: FAA

High-powered laser pointers can incapacitate pilots flying airplanes with hundreds of passengers. To combat the threat, Acting FAA Administrator Billy Nolen requested laser manufacturers add a warning label to their packaging to make consumers aware of the safety risks and federal laws when using lasers. Lasers may seem like just a toy, office tool, or... Read more

Jetson welcomes new Senior Advisor

Jetson welcomes new Senior Advisor

14-Feb-2023Source: Jetson

Jetson welcomes our new Senior Advisor Peter Diamandis. Founder and Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions. He is also the Executive Founder of Singularity University. Peter Diamandis is going to be a valuable resource to the Jetson management team. As an entrepreneur, Diamandis has... Read more

ASD reports on UAM and Sustainability

ASD reports on UAM and Sustainability

14-Feb-2023Source: ASD

The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) published today a White Paper on Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and Sustainable Development. The report – conducted by Envisa, a leading research and sustainable aviation company – was elaborated with the support of several companies and associations, including Agoria, Airbus, Avio Aero, BDLI, FACC, GIFAS, Leonardo, Rolls-Royce, SAAB and TEDAE. The White Paper aims to meet two main needs of... Read more

LASD sued for allegedly suppressing helicopter fleet details

LASD sued for allegedly suppressing helicopter fleet details

13-Feb-2023Source: CBS Los Angeles

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is being sued by a pair of local groups who allege that the department has refused to disclose basic records on their helicopter fleet. Both “Stop LAPD Spying Coalition,” a grassroots community group, and the UCLA Carceral Ecologies Lab announced the lawsuit on Friday. “Black communities have long experienced police helicopters... Read more

Ionblox raises $32m with investment from Lilium and others

Ionblox raises $32m with investment from Lilium and others

13-Feb-2023Source: Ionblox

Ionblox, a next-generation lithium-ion battery company announced a second close of its Series B round at an increased $32 million. Strategic partners include original investors Lilium and Applied Ventures who were joined by Temasek and Catalus Capital. The company will use the increased Series B funding to scale its technology, develop advanced high-power cells for... Read more

Teledyne Wins $13M Contract for Remote CBRN Detection Using Drones

Teledyne Wins $13M Contract for Remote CBRN Detection Using Drones

13-Feb-2023Source: Teledyne FLIR Defense

Teledyne FLIR Defense, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), announced that it has been awarded a $13.3 million contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to further expand the capabilities of its R80D SkyRaider™ unmanned aerial system to autonomously perform chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) reconnaissance missions. Teledyne FLIR Defense will integrate flight control... Read more

Pierce Aerospace Partners with Skye Air Mobility for integrated Remote ID solution

Pierce Aerospace Partners with Skye Air Mobility for integrated Remote ID solution

13-Feb-2023Source: Pierce Aerospace

Pierce Aerospace announced a partnership with Skye Air Mobility at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV. The partnership brings Pierce Aerospace’s Flight Portal ID UAS Technologies as an integrated Remote ID solution with Skye Air Mobility’s drone delivery platforms and Skye UTM (Skye Air’s proprietary Unmanned Traffic Management platform) starting in 2023. Skye... Read more

Joby Completes Second Stage of Certification Process

Joby Completes Second Stage of Certification Process

13-Feb-2023Source: Joby Aviation

Joby Aviation, Inc. (NYSE:JOBY), a California-based company developing all-electric aircraft, announced it has completed the second of five stages required by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to certify its revolutionary electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for commercial passenger use. In the second stage of the type certification process, a company identifies the ways... Read more

Chilean military join civil operators in fighting wildfires

Chilean military join civil operators in fighting wildfires

13-Feb-2023Source: Chilean Army

[electronic translation] Bell-412 helicopters and their air crews are operating from the Maquehue Air Base in Temuco and from the Temporary Air Garrison (GAT) based at the Carriel Sur Airport in Talcahuano, who continue to support the fight against the forest fires that affect the south of the country. Thus, on February 8, an aircraft... Read more

AeroBrigham Expands Capabilities with Additional Hangar Space

AeroBrigham Expands Capabilities with Additional Hangar Space

13-Feb-2023Source: AeroBrigham

Responding to a significant increase in demand, North Texas fixed and rotary-wing maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) provider, AeroBrigham has announced the company will expand with new hangar facilities at the Decatur Municipal Airport (KLUD). The new facility will be used exclusively to support helicopters while the current facility will be dedicated to fixed wing... Read more

HRH The Princess Royal unveils cornerstone for new Magpas base

HRH The Princess Royal unveils cornerstone for new Magpas base

13-Feb-2023Source: Magpas Air Ambulance

On Friday, 10th February Magpas Air Ambulance staff, clinicians and former patients welcomed HRH The Princess Royal to the site of the charity’s new base, to unveil a cornerstone for the new building which is mid-way through construction. The event, sponsored by Leonardo and supported by Special Aviation Services, had been postponed from September due to... Read more

NH90 flies on sustainable fuel

NH90 flies on sustainable fuel

10-Feb-2023Source: Safran Helicopter Engines

With support from Safran Helicopter Engines, TotalEnergies, Airbus Helicopters, France’s defense procurement agency (Direction Générale de l’Armement – DGA) has carried out the first test flight of an NH90, during which one of its two RTM322 engines ran on Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). This fuel was produced by TotalEnergies from used cooking oil using HEFA... Read more

ÖAMTC expands contract in Burgenland region of Austria

ÖAMTC expands contract in Burgenland region of Austria

10-Feb-2023Source: ÖAMTC Air Rescue

[electronic translation] On February 7, 2023, Governor Hans-Peter Doskozil and the managing directors of ÖAMTC air rescue, Reinhard Kraxner and Marco Trefanitz, announced at a joint press event in Eisenstadt that the yellow Christophorus emergency medical helicopters would continue to take off for their life-saving missions in Burgenland in the future . New location in the... Read more

Guyana – Sheriff Security and Medical Services buys Bell 505

Guyana – Sheriff Security and Medical Services buys Bell 505

10-Feb-2023Source: Guyana Chronicle

Sheriff Security and Medical Services continues to capitalise and expand its investments in Guyana’s economy with the purchase of a Bell 505. See Full Story.... Read more

Japan considers downsizing SDF fleet and increasing drone usage

Japan considers downsizing SDF fleet and increasing drone usage

10-Feb-2023Source: The Japan News

The government is considering decommissioning some of the Self-Defense Forces’ search and rescue planes and combat helicopters as part of efforts to streamline defense spending, according to government sources. A “scrap-and-build” approach has been mooted for defense equipment, with drones among possible replacements for the aircraft. See Full Story.... Read more

Pawan Hans launches 6 scheduled routes in Assam, India

Pawan Hans launches 6 scheduled routes in Assam, India

10-Feb-2023Source: Travel Biz Monitor.com

Pawan Hans Ltd launched its helicopter services for several sectors connecting four major cities in Assam, with an aim at boosting tourism in the northeastern state, a senior official said. The service will be available on the Dibrugarh-Jorhat-Tezpur-Guwahati-Tezpur-Jorhat-Dibrugarh routes for three days a week, he said. See Full Story.... Read more

Magellan and Euravia to Exhibit at Heli-Expo 2023

Magellan and Euravia to Exhibit at Heli-Expo 2023

10-Feb-2023Source: Magellan Aerospace

HELI-EXPO, the world’s largest helicopter trade show and exhibition, takes place from 7-9 March 2023 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA. Visit representatives from Magellan and Euravia, a Magellan Aerospace company, at booth #C4409. Highlighted will be Euravia’s PT6 and M250 engine and engine component maintenance, repair and overhaul, along with Magellan’s... Read more

Bristow Announces New Organization Structure

Bristow Announces New Organization Structure

10-Feb-2023Source: Bristow

Bristow Group Inc. (NYSE: VTOL) took action to better support its existing business and future growth plans by reorganizing the Company’s leadership team to align with its main service lines – Government Services and Offshore Energy Services. Given the increased scale and geographic scope of Bristow’s Government Services business, the time is right to implement... Read more

Schiebel and Thales awarded Royal Navy contract by UK MoD

Schiebel and Thales awarded Royal Navy contract by UK MoD

10-Feb-2023Source: Schiebel

Schiebel and Thales have been awarded the Uncrewed Air Systems (UAS) contract “Peregrine” by the UK Ministry of Defence. This prestigious contract award will deliver the unrivalled CAMCOPTER® S-100 UAS, fitted with a powerful naval surveillance sensor suite, to provide a comprehensive maritime capability protecting Royal Navy ships on operational tasks. Schiebel, together with system... Read more

Northrop Grumman and KAI to collaborate on unmanned helicopter

Northrop Grumman and KAI to collaborate on unmanned helicopter

10-Feb-2023Source: KAI

‣ KAI announced on the 19th that it had signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with Northrop Grumman (hereinafter referred to as NG) of the United States for technical cooperation in the vertical take-off and landing unmanned aerial vehicle business at its headquarters in Sacheon on the 18th. ‣ The signing ceremony was attended by... Read more

Bristow announces restructure

Bristow announces restructure

10-Feb-2023Source: Bristow

Bristow Group Inc. (NYSE: VTOL) took action today to better support its existing business and future growth plans by reorganizing the Company’s leadership team to align with its main service lines – Government Services and Offshore Energy Services. Given the increased scale and geographic scope of Bristow’s Government Services business, the time is right to... Read more

Blade to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences

Blade to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences

10-Feb-2023Source: Blade Air Mobility

Blade Air Mobility, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLDE, “Blade” or the “Company”), a technology-powered air mobility platform, today announced that Rob Wiesenthal, Chief Executive Officer, will present at the following investor conferences: Baird 2023 Vehicle Technology and Mobility Conference – Fireside chat on Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 10:50 am ET. A webcast of the event will... Read more

RAF Puma helicopters are currently training in Kenya

RAF Puma helicopters are currently training in Kenya

10-Feb-2023Source: Royal Air Force

Puma helicopters from RAF Benson are currently conducting environmental training in Kenya while also supporting the British Army. Located in the foothills of Mount Kenya, over 80 personnel are working in a unique and challenging environment to conduct a variety of environmental training.  Often encountering temperatures of up to 35 degrees and heavy thunderstorms, the aircrew,... Read more

Tcab Tech raises $15M to develop E20 eVTOL prototype

Tcab Tech raises $15M to develop E20 eVTOL prototype

10-Feb-2023Source: TCab Tech

TCab Tech announced the completion of the Pre-A financing of 100 millionyuan. This financing round is led by Grand Flight,followed by Kunlun Capital, KIP Capital and the existing shareholders BlueRunVentures and Decent Capital. The Pre-A financing round provides sufficient capitalfor the development, manufacturing and flight testing of the full-scale E20eVTOL prototype. “TCab Tech is in... Read more

UK AAIB Bulletin –February 2023

UK AAIB Bulletin –February 2023

10-Feb-2023Source: AAIB

The monthly bulletin from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch has been released. This month’s issue covers the accident(s) of:- Enstrom 280FX (G-OJBB), hard landing following loss of tail rotor drive, Rhobell Fawr, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, 25 August 2021 AW189 (G-MCGV), heating duct failure, Lydd Airport, Kent, 7 January 2022 AS-350 (D-HKMB), underslung load struck electricity pylon.,... Read more

CHC appoints new CEO

CHC appoints new CEO

9-Feb-2023Source: CHC

CHC Helicopter, the global helicopter services company specialising in transportation, search and rescue operations, and maintenance, announced David Balevic has resigned his position as President and CEO and will be replaced by Jørn Madsen. David Balevic said: “It has been my privilege over the last three years to lead and serve an incredible organization.  During... Read more

MD Helicopters Delivers MD530F to Huntington Beach PD

MD Helicopters Delivers MD530F to Huntington Beach PD

9-Feb-2023Source: MD Helicopters

MD Helicopters (MDH) is pleased to announce the delivery of its first of three MD 530F helicopters to the Huntington Beach Police Department (HBPD). The helicopter was delivered in a special ceremony at the MD Helicopters factory on Tuesday before flying to its new home in Huntington Beach, California. “The Huntington Beach Police Department is... Read more

Dorset County Hospital receives £2M from HELP Appeal

Dorset County Hospital receives £2M from HELP Appeal

9-Feb-2023Source: HELP Appeal

Plans to build a new helipad at Dorset County Hospital (DCH) have taken a major step forward thanks to a £2million pledge from the HELP Appeal – the only charity in the country that funds NHS hospital helipads. Dorset County Hospital plans to build a brand-new Emergency Department and Critical Care Unit on the former... Read more

AirLIFE Uvalde has life-saving cardiac arrest equipment

AirLIFE Uvalde has life-saving cardiac arrest equipment

9-Feb-2023Source: Air Methods

As February is American Heart Month, crew members at AirLIFE Uvalde proudly serve their communities knowing they have the equipment and ability to save patient lives, even more so if the patient is experiencing cardiac arrest. AirLIFE Uvalde is the only air medical provider in the region to have a LUCAS CPR device on its... Read more

GPMS Extends Foresight MX Coverage to the UH-60A Black Hawk

GPMS Extends Foresight MX Coverage to the UH-60A Black Hawk

8-Feb-2023Source: GPMS

GPMS International, which provides the helicopter industry’s most advanced Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS) known as Foresight MX, announced today that it has received an FAA Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the UH-60A Black Hawk platform. The company worked closely with PJ Helicopters during the STC process, where they will benefit from becoming the first Black... Read more

American Helicopter Museum Honors US Army’s First Black Helicopter Pilot

American Helicopter Museum Honors US Army’s First Black Helicopter Pilot

8-Feb-2023Source: American Helicopter Museum

The American Helicopter Museum and Education Center (AHMEC) will honor Captain Joseph H. Hairston, who is believed to be the U.S. Army’s first Black helicopter pilot, on Saturday, February 25, at 2:30 p.m. with the unveiling of its newest exhibit: a banner featuring a brief biography of Hairston and his role in rotary wing aviation. AHMEC... Read more

Volatus to build vertiport at Pennsylvania Airport

Volatus to build vertiport at Pennsylvania Airport

8-Feb-2023Source: Volatus

Volatus Infrastructure, LLC has signed an agreement with Bellefonte Airport located in Pennsylvania. Volatus will build a public use FAA-compliant electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vertiport with up to eight landing pads including a charging station at each pad. The vertiport is expected to be operational later this year.  Volatus has a modular designed... Read more

Wisk promotes AAM opportunities in South East Queensland

Wisk promotes AAM opportunities in South East Queensland

8-Feb-2023Source: Wisk Aero

Wisk Aero, a leading Advanced Air Mobility company, and the South East Queensland Council of Mayors (COMSEQ), Australia’s largest regional local government organization, have published a paper outlining the benefits Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) will bring South East Queensland (SEQ). The two organisations entered into a strategic partnership, which started with a Memorandum of Understanding signed in July 2022,... Read more

HAI announces candidates for Board election

HAI announces candidates for Board election

8-Feb-2023Source: HAI

Helicopter Association International (HAI) is pleased to announce the candidates for this year’s election to the HAI Board of Directors. If elected, each director will serve a term of three years beginning Jul. 1, 2023. Candidates for the three helicopter operator, commercial, positions: Nicole Battjes Owner and Director of Operations Rainbow Helicopters Honolulu, Hawaii, USA... Read more

Global Medical Response Signs for 3 more B407GXis

Global Medical Response Signs for 3 more B407GXis

7-Feb-2023Source: Global Medical Response

Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, announced they signed purchase agreement for three additional Bell 407GXi aircraft to Global Medical Response (GMR) with delivery expected to be completed by the end of 2023. The three Bell 407GXis will join GMR’s exclusive 220 Bell helicopter fleet used for emergency medical operations throughout North America.... Read more

Indian Prime Minister inaugurates new helicopter production plant

Indian Prime Minister inaugurates new helicopter production plant

7-Feb-2023Source: Indian PM Office

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, dedicated the HAL Helicopter Factory to the nation in Tumakuru. He also laid the foundation stone of the Tumakuru Industrial Township and two Jal Jeevan Mission projects at Tiptur and Chikkanayakanahalli in Tumakuru. The Prime Minister took a walkthrough of the Helicopter Facility and Structure Hangar and unveiled the... Read more

HELP Appeal donates to Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance

HELP Appeal donates to Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance

7-Feb-2023Source: HELP Appeal

The HELP Appeal, which is the only charity in the country dedicated to funding lifesaving hospital and air ambulance base helipads, has donated £26,787 to Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance, for new runway lights, helipad lighting and a new windsock at its Henstridge Airfield home. The new lights, due to be installed this month, will... Read more

Life Flight Network Adds 4 Bell 407GXis to fleet

Life Flight Network Adds 4 Bell 407GXis to fleet

6-Feb-2023Source: Life Flight Network

Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, announced that Life Flight Network, the largest not-for-profit air medical program in the country, will add four additional Bell 407GXi helicopters. These aircraft will bring Life Flight Network’s current operating fleet to seven Bell 407GXis, remaining the largest air medical operator of the Bell 407GXi in the... Read more

Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance records busiest year in 2022

Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance records busiest year in 2022

6-Feb-2023Source: Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance

Demand on Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance (SCAA) continues to grow as the service records its busiest ever year. 2022 saw the country’s only charity air ambulance service respond to 967 call outs from its bases at Perth and Aberdeen airports – a 19% increase on the previous year. A valued integral part of Scotland’s emergency... Read more

Part of V-22 fleet grounded by Input Quill Assembly issue

Part of V-22 fleet grounded by Input Quill Assembly issue

6-Feb-2023Source: US Marine Corps

Based on the recommendation from the V-22 Joint Program Office, the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command and U.S. Navy issued a time limit, via fleet bulletin, on the V-22 Input Quill Assembly, effective Feb. 3, 2023. The imposed time limit will restrict flight on a subset of V-22s until the Input... Read more

Live Fire Demo Proves Integration Of Spike NLOS On Apache

Live Fire Demo Proves Integration Of Spike NLOS On Apache

6-Feb-2023Source: Lockheed Martin

The Precision Strike team successfully fired two Spike NLOS all up rounds (AURs) from the Apache Echo Model V6 on January 26, 2023, at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. The successful live fire event verifies the Spike NLOS Long Range Precision Munitions Directed Requirement (LRPM DR) system’s integration onto the Apache platform and allows it... Read more

AirLift 5 in Weslaco adds LUCAS for cardiac arrest patients

AirLift 5 in Weslaco adds LUCAS for cardiac arrest patients

6-Feb-2023Source: Air Methods

With February being American Heart Month, crew members at AirLift 5 in Weslaco are proud to have recently added the LUCAS chest compression system to their aircraft to help provide lifesaving efforts during transports, especially when a patient is experiencing cardiac arrest. LUCAS is an automatic chest compression device that provides an accurate rate and depth... Read more

NAFI to hold Florida Summit in October

NAFI to hold Florida Summit in October

6-Feb-2023Source: NAFI

The National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI) will convene its inaugural flight instruction safety and business summit Oct. 24-26 in Lakeland, Fla. The organization will conduct the summit on the SUN ‘n FUN campus at Lakeland Linder International Airport for current and prospective Certified Flight Instructors, aviation leaders, industry advocates, government representatives, and the news media. “The... Read more

Alaska Air National Guard trains with Coast Guard

Alaska Air National Guard trains with Coast Guard

6-Feb-2023Source: US Air Force

Undulating waves pitched the 2,000-ton U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Cypress like a bath toy, which was nothing unusual for the vessel while operating in Pacific waters off Alaska. What was out of place was the 210th Rescue Squadron HH-60G Pave Hawk combat search and rescue helicopter hovering overhead. Fast ropes dropped from the Pave Hawk’s open doors,... Read more

OSF HealthCare Unveils New OSF Life Flight Helipad

OSF HealthCare Unveils New OSF Life Flight Helipad

6-Feb-2023Source: OSF HealthCare

People living in Urbana and its surrounding communities now have a new life saving resource at OSF HealthCare Heart of Mary Medical Center. OSF HealthCare celebrated the completion of a new OSF Life Flight helipad on the campus of OSF Heart of Mary in Urbana with a ribbon cutting and blessing on Tuesday. The new... Read more

DRF Luftrettung celebrates its 50th anniversary

DRF Luftrettung celebrates its 50th anniversary

6-Feb-2023Source: DRF Luftrettung

On March 19, 1973, a DRF Luftrettung crew took off for the first time to save lives. The DRF Luftrettung is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2023 with numerous activities: the highlight will be the celebration on June 13 in Stuttgart, and the event on March 18 and 19 in Berlin will kick off.  “We are... Read more

Volocopter Receives French-German Business Award

Volocopter Receives French-German Business Award

6-Feb-2023Source: Volocopter

Volocopter, the pioneer of urban air mobility, has won the 2023 Franco-German Business Award (Le Prix Franco-Allemand de L´Economie). The winner of the accolade was selected by a distinguished jury and presented by Marie Guillemot, Chairwoman and CEO of KPMG France. The awards ceremony was held on 2 February 2023 in Paris on the occasion... Read more

Sarnia hospital already benefits from new helipad

Sarnia hospital already benefits from new helipad

6-Feb-2023Source: The Observer

A new helipad at Bluewater Health in Sarnia has already been used six times by air ambulance helicopters transferring patients to Toronto and London since being approved for daytime use in November. See Full Story.... Read more

Erickson celebrates 25 years operating in Australia

Erickson celebrates 25 years operating in Australia

3-Feb-2023Source: Erickson

25 REMARKABLE YEARS For 25 years, Erickson has collaborated with the National Aerial Fighting Centre (NAFC) and the Australian and New Zealand National Council for fire and emergency services (AFAC) in support of ground-level firefighters in the wildland urban interface (WUI) and Australian communities. Through this partnership, Erickson has been instrumental in fighting fires throughout... Read more

Swire Energy Services strengthens Aviation Division in UK and Norway

Swire Energy Services strengthens Aviation Division in UK and Norway

3-Feb-2023Source: Swire Energy Services

Swire Energy Services, a global integrated energy services provider, strengthens its Aviation division in both Norway and the UK, with new appointments and promotions. Robert Brandvik has moved into the role of General Manager for Aviation, managing the Central Aviation division across the UK and Norway. Robert joined Helifuel AS in 2018 as Finance and... Read more

Skyway and Moonware Partner in AAM

Skyway and Moonware Partner in AAM

3-Feb-2023Source: Skyway

Skyway and Moonware are proud to announce a strategic partnership to accelerate ground infrastructure readiness for advanced aerial mobility. Skyway offers air traffic navigation and vertiport airspace management services while Moonware offers automated aviation ground operations through its AI-powered software and autonomous ground vehicles. Moonware is a venture-backed startup developing automated solutions for aviation ground operations. Through its... Read more

Indra to develop third NH90 simulator for the Spanish Armed Forces

Indra to develop third NH90 simulator for the Spanish Armed Forces

3-Feb-2023Source: Indra

Indra has been awarded the development and supply of a new FMS (Full Mission Simulator) simulator for the most modern helicopter of the Armed Forces, the NH90, for the Spanish Air and Space Force, for an amount of 19.2 million euros . This is the third simulator of these characteristics that the company has developed,... Read more

Children’s Air Ambulance undertakes first ECMO transfer

Children’s Air Ambulance undertakes first ECMO transfer

3-Feb-2023Source: Children’s Air Ambulance

The lifesaving Children’s Air Ambulance (TCAA) has achieved another milestone by undertaking its first ECMO transfer to help a critically ill young child get to the specialist care they urgently needed. The national transfer service provides the only intensive care helicopter in the country dedicated to transferring critically ill babies and children, at high-speed, from... Read more

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