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17-Jan-14 XC-BBF Bell UH-1H Tancitaro, Mexico

17-Jan-14 XC-BBF Bell UH-1H Tancitaro, Mexico

17-Jan-2014

Hit cable at low level and crashed into wooded area.  Some reports suggest the cable was intentionally put there by the dissident groups, and that this helicopter was one of 11 put into the region to restore order after the dissident group took control. Helicopter fitted with cable cutters. 5 pOB received minor injuries, and... Read more

HAI Takes Safety to Mexico City

HAI Takes Safety to Mexico City

15-Nov-2013Source: HAI

HAI’s director of safety outreach programs, Stan Rose, and Jose Orozco, HAI’s safety programs coordinator, are in Mexico City were they took part in the 7th Annual Safety Meeting for Aeronautical Pilots from November 12-13, hosted by HAI Affiliate Member Colegio de Pilotos Aviadores de Mexico, A.C. Increased demand and use of rotorcraft in Mexico... Read more

Eurocopter Foundation Joins Forces with NGO World Vision Mexico

Eurocopter Foundation Joins Forces with NGO World Vision Mexico

10-Oct-2013Source: Eurocopter Foundation

The Eurocopter Foundation and NGO World Vision Mexico have joined forces to distribute food and humanitarian aid to the communities affected by Hurricane Ingrid and Tropical Storm Manuel. This agreement provides 30 helicopter flight hours to reach communities in the most devastated regions of the country, inaccessible by land. In order to assist those affected... Read more

19-Sep-13 Sikorsky UH-60 La Pintada, Mexico (5F)

19-Sep-13 Sikorsky UH-60 La Pintada, Mexico (5F)

19-Sep-2013

A federal police helicopter crashed into the mountain range inthe southern state of Guerrero, killing all three crew members and two passengers onboard... Read more

MAKS 2013 – Vertical de Aviacion signs for five Mi-171A1s and five Ka-62s

MAKS 2013 – Vertical de Aviacion signs for five Mi-171A1s and five Ka-62s

28-Aug-2013Source: Russian Helicopters

Russian Helicopters, a subsidiary of Oboronprom, part of State Corporation Rostec and a leading global designer and manufacturer of helicopters, and Colombia’s Vertical de Aviacion today signed agreements for five Mi-171A1s and five Ka-62s at the MAKS 2013 International Aviation and Space Salon. Vertical de Aviacion plans to deploy the Mi-171A1s in Mexico for cargo and passenger flights, while... Read more

Mexico aims high with investment in aviation industry

Mexico aims high with investment in aviation industry

7-Jul-2013Source: Guardian

In February, Eurocopter, the latest arrival, opened a 12,000 sq metre facility that will employ 200 people by next year. see full story... Read more

07-Jun-13 N207JA Bell 206B San Luis Potosi, Mexico (4F)

07-Jun-13 N207JA Bell 206B San Luis Potosi, Mexico (4F)

7-Jun-2013

Lost height on climb out from golf complex.  Fatalities named as Juan Ignacio Torres Landa, Elizárraga Alejandro Felix (pilot), Jaime Olescowski, Manuel Palacios Alcocer, while Joseph Olescowski Nutt was seriously injured.... Read more

Mexico certifies Sikorsky S76D

Mexico certifies Sikorsky S76D

13-May-2013Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today announced that the S-76D™ helicopter has been awarded Type Certification by Mexico’s civil aviation authority, the Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil (DGAC). Sikorsky Aircraft is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX). The S-76D helicopter is the newest product from Sikorsky Aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded Type Certification... Read more

Bell showcases versatile aircraft at AeroExpo 2013

Bell showcases versatile aircraft at AeroExpo 2013

29-Apr-2013Source: Bell

Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company (NYSE: TXT), visited with many customers and enthusiasts last week in San Pedro Totoltepec, Mexico at the 10th annual AeroExpo held April 18 to April 20 at Toluca International Airport. Five Bell Helicopter aircraft were displayed at the event, including three corporate-configured Bell 407s, as well as a Bell... Read more

24-Apr-13 XC-AAF MD Helicopters MD600N Oaxaca, Mexico (4F)

24-Apr-13 XC-AAF MD Helicopters MD600N Oaxaca, Mexico (4F)

24-Apr-2013

Helicopter on an EMS flight crashed killing a newborn baby less than 24 hours old, his father Pedro Martinez, pilot  Guillermo Chávez Medina and paramedic Pablo Héctor Vicente.  Helicopter destroyed... Read more

Mexico orders six GrandNew for Presidential flight

Mexico orders six GrandNew for Presidential flight

22-Apr-2013Source: HeliHub.com

Mexico has ordered six AgustaWestland AW109SP GrandNew helicopters for VVIP work in their Presidential flight. SEDENA (Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional), the government agency responsible for the Army and Air Force, says the total contracted value is 776 million pesos – about $63.1M at today’s prices. The Presidential fleet is tasked with flying the President... Read more

Transportes Aereos Pegaso Signs for Two EC155s

Transportes Aereos Pegaso Signs for Two EC155s

8-Mar-2013Source: Eurocopter

On the final day of the Heli-Expo air show in Las Vegas, Mexican operator Transportes Aéreos Pegaso, the largest oil and gas transportation provider in the Gulf of Mexico, signed on for two EC155s. Live from the Eurocopter booth, Transportes Aéreos Pegaso CEO Enrique Zepeda and Eurocopter President and CEO Lutz Bertling celebrated the signature,... Read more

Mexico’s ASESA signs for six S-76D

Mexico’s ASESA signs for six S-76D

7-Mar-2013Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today announced the signing of a contract with ASESA (Aeroservicios Especializados, S.A. de C.V.), a Mexican helicopter service provider, for the purchase of six S-76D™ helicopters to serve the offshore oil transport mission. Sikorsky, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX), announced the sale at the 2013 Heli-Expo Industry Show. The sale... Read more

Eurocopter inaugurates Mexican centre for high-technology components

Eurocopter inaugurates Mexican centre for high-technology components

15-Feb-2013Source: Eurocopter

Eurocopter expanded its global industrial footprint and enhanced the company’s presence in Mexico with today’s inauguration of a new manufacturing center of excellence at Querétaro, which is to produce high-technology aircraft structural metallic components. The event was attended by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, along with other key government, local and Eurocopter officials. Located at... Read more

Mexico approves Dart’s AS350/355 Vertical Reference Floor Window Kits

Mexico approves Dart’s AS350/355 Vertical Reference Floor Window Kits

5-Dec-2012Source: DART Helicopter Services

DART Helicopter Services is pleased to announce their receipt Mexican approval (DGAC) for Vertical Reference Floor Window Kits fitted for AS350 and AS355 series of helicopters. The DART Vertical Reference Floor Window Kits are available in three sizes to fit various operational requirements.  You can now look through the floor window with ease for vertical... Read more

CAE Bell 412 simulator in Mexico earns FAA Level-D approval

CAE Bell 412 simulator in Mexico earns FAA Level-D approval

1-Nov-2012Source: CAE

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Simulation has qualified the CAE Bell 412 full-flight simulator (FFS) in Toluca, Mexico to Level D, the highest standard for flight simulation training devices. The simulator was initially approved by Mexico’s Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil (DGAC). CAE Mexico is Mexico’s first helicopter training facility to use an... Read more

Ex-Im Bank approves $50M finance for Mexican offshore S76D fleet

Ex-Im Bank approves $50M finance for Mexican offshore S76D fleet

29-Oct-2012Source: Ex-Im Bank

The board of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) authorized more than $50 million to guarantee a loan extended by Apple Bank to Aeroservicios Especializados S.A. DE C.V. (ASESA) of Mexico that will finance the export of a fleet of Sikorsky S-76D™ helicopters to Mexico. Ex-Im Bank’s credit will support approximately 450 U.S. jobs, according to bank estimates derived from... Read more

18-Sep-12 XC-ZIT Bell 407 Lake Zirahuen, Mexico (1F)

18-Sep-12 XC-ZIT Bell 407 Lake Zirahuen, Mexico (1F)

18-Sep-2012

Crashed into lake after contacting zip wire which spans the lake.  One drowned (named as Daniel Segundo Martinez), four survived.  Helicopter was being used to capture video footage of the lake for use on a television program... Read more

04-Aug-12 XC-SSP Bell 407 Tlaxco, Mexico

04-Aug-12 XC-SSP Bell 407 Tlaxco, Mexico

4-Aug-2012

B407 carrying the Secretary of Public Security of Veracruz, Arturo Bermudez Zurita, and the Undersecretary Jose Nava Holguin, made a forced landing.  Pilot was Alfonso Diaz Pineda... Read more

28-Jul-12 XA-UQH AgustaWestland AW109SP Cerro Alpino, Mexico (3F)

28-Jul-12 XA-UQH AgustaWestland AW109SP Cerro Alpino, Mexico (3F)

28-Jul-2012

Two crew and one passenger killed – mountainous location.  The passenger is named in local press as Juan Armando Hinojosa Cantú, owner of Grupo Higa, parent company of helicopter operator Eolo who have up to four AW119s and three AW109SPs according to this press release... Read more

23-Jun-12 AMHP-151 Eurocopter AS565SB Tecalitlan, Mexico (4F)

23-Jun-12 AMHP-151 Eurocopter AS565SB Tecalitlan, Mexico (4F)

23-Jun-2012

Extensively damaged after hitting mountain.  Took authorities four days to find wreckage.  No word of, or from, crew – thus presumed fatal.  Aircraft took off 22nd June just before midnight and last known contact was at 00.10am with ATC at Uruapan, Michoacan... Read more

Eurocopter and Turbomeca launch maintenance training centre in Mexico

Eurocopter and Turbomeca launch maintenance training centre in Mexico

25-May-2012Source: Eurocopter Mexico

Eurocopter de México (EMSA) and Turbomeca México (Safran Group) have signed a cooperation agreement for the training of helicopter maintenance technicians and recently opened their first joint training center in Mexico, which is also the first of its kind on the American continent to offer Spanish-speaking instructors. This new center, inaugurated today by Eurocopter’s Executive... Read more

Mexican Police JetRanger down, 3 injured

Mexican Police JetRanger down, 3 injured

17-May-2012Source: HeliHub.com

T his news item is part of the accident data provided by HeliHub.com on this site.  Information provided in this update may potentially be incomplete or inaccurate as we frequently post these stories only a very short time after the accident has occurred.  Users of HeliHub.com are advised to carry out their own checks and... Read more

16-May-12 XA-UKL Bell 206B Jerez, Mexico

16-May-12 XA-UKL Bell 206B Jerez, Mexico

16-May-2012

Crashed from low level during take-off and ended up on its starboard side within the police compound.  Press statement said it was a mechanical issue.  Pilot named as Víctor Ojeda Esqueda and passengers were Secretary of Public Security Jesús Pinto Ortiz and director of the State Preventive Police, Víctor Manuel Bosques.   All three to hospital. ... Read more

CAE opening locations in Australia, Brazil, China and Mexico in 2012

CAE opening locations in Australia, Brazil, China and Mexico in 2012

13-May-2012Source: CAE

CAE  announced today on the eve of the European Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (EBACE) that it will begin training pilots and maintenance technicians this summer for Gulfstream G450 and G550 business aircraft operators in Asia at the Shanghai Eastern Flight Training Centre (SEFTC), located in Shanghai Pudong Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone. Shanghai is CAE’s... Read more

Strong Bell 407GX sales in Central and South America

Strong Bell 407GX sales in Central and South America

2-May-2012Source: HeliHub.com

The HeliHub.com team has noticed that the early sales of the Bell 407GX demonstrate particular success for Bell in Central and South America.  Of the first 14 off the production line, more than half are in that region, with three in Brazil and one each to Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Panama. The 407GX is... Read more

Heliservicio Campeche signs with CAE for B412 and S76 training

Heliservicio Campeche signs with CAE for B412 and S76 training

26-Apr-2012Source: CAE

CAE has signed a training service contract with Heliservicio Campeche, a leading helicopter operator serving Mexico’s offshore oil and gas industry, for Bell 412 and Sikorsky S-76 training. Heliservicio Campeche pilots will conduct Bell 412 training at the new Toluca training center. Sikorsky S-76 training will be delivered at the CAE North East Training Center,... Read more

SkyTrac Systems to exhibit at AeroExpo show in Mexico this week

SkyTrac Systems to exhibit at AeroExpo show in Mexico this week

24-Apr-2012Source: SkyTrac Systems

SkyTrac Systems is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting at the AeroExpo 9th Annual International Aviation Trade Show and Convention from April 26th – 28th, 2012 in Toluca, Mexico. AeroExpo is an important Aviation business event in Latin America, and the Toluca International Airport is considered to be the number one airport in... Read more

21-Feb-12 XA-JMB Bell 407 Loma Bonita, Mexico

21-Feb-12 XA-JMB Bell 407 Loma Bonita, Mexico

21-Feb-2012

On February 21, 2012, about 1400 central standard time, a Bell 407 helicopter, XA-JMB, had a loss of engine power and impacted terrain near Loma Bonita, Veracruz, Mexico. The commercial pilot, who was the sole occupant, was seriously injured. The helicopter was substantially damaged and was operated by Heliservicio Campeche S.A. de C.V. Visual meteorological... Read more

Sikorsky opens office in Mexico

Sikorsky opens office in Mexico

17-Feb-2012Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Export Corporation, a subsidiary of Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp  has opened a business office in Mexico City. The office will provide sales and logistics support to the growing number of BLACK HAWK aircraft operated by the Mexican armed forces. Among those attending a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the... Read more

Mexico’s Pegaso recognized for flying an EC135 for over 2000 hours in one year

Mexico’s Pegaso recognized for flying an EC135 for over 2000 hours in one year

15-Feb-2012Source: Eurocopter

Eurocopter presented yesterday an award of excellence to Transportes Aereos Pegaso for the more than 2,000 flight hours logged in 2011 by one of this operator’s EC135 P2 helicopters during oil and gas industry transportation missions in the Gulf of Mexico. The milestone aircraft, which carries Mexican registration number XA-UDN, accumulated a total of 2,014... Read more

Sikorsky signs MOU with ASESA of Mexico

Sikorsky signs MOU with ASESA of Mexico

14-Feb-2012Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Mexican helicopter service provider ASESA (Aeroservicios Especializados, S.A. de C.V.) to jointly explore assembly and service opportunities in support of BLACK HAWK helicopters. “The MOU marks another step in our commitment to support BLACK HAWK aircraft operated... Read more

StandardAero Signs Three FBOs as Rolls-Royce Support Centers

StandardAero Signs Three FBOs as Rolls-Royce Support Centers

14-Feb-2012Source: StandardAero

StandardAero announced today that it has signed three 6-year agreements with Fixed Base Operators (FBOs) in Brazil, Mexico, and Guatemala. Helipark Taxi Aereo E Manutencao Aeronautica Ltda. (Helipark) of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Servicio Tecnico Aereo De Mexico (STAM) of Mexico City, Mexico, and Aeroservicios AVE, S.A. (AVESA) of Guatemala City, Guatemala have signed with StandardAero... Read more

Bell delivers first 407GX

Bell delivers first 407GX

12-Feb-2012Source: Bell

Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company (NYSE: TXT), announced today it has delivered its first Bell 407GX to a long-time Bell 407 customer, AVEMEX, S.A. de C.V., located in Toluca, Mexico. AVEMEX has been operating Bell 407 helicopters for nine years. “The delivery of the first Bell 407GX is the culmination of the promise that... Read more

Turbomeca adds subsidiary in Mexico

Turbomeca adds subsidiary in Mexico

12-Feb-2012Source: Turbomeca

Turbomeca (Safran group) announces the creation of Turbomeca Mexico , Located in. the federal capital of Mexico , Called Federal District – DF. Turbomeca Mexico is Aimed at Supporting Turbomeca engines operators in Mexico, Central America and north of South America ( Bolivia , Colombia , Ecuador and Venezuela ). The primary goal of Turbomeca... Read more

Uniflight awarded Mexican DGAC certification

Uniflight awarded Mexican DGAC certification

12-Feb-2012Source: Uniflight

Uniflight, LLC of Grand Prairie, Texas is extremely pleased to announce that it has been awarded a Repair Station certificate by Mexico’s Director General of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC). A team from the DGAC recently visited the Uniflight facility in Grand Prairie and performed a very in-depth inspection of its services and capabilities. After the completion... Read more

CAE Mexico training centre opens with B412 simulator

CAE Mexico training centre opens with B412 simulator

5-Jan-2012Source: CAE

CAE today announced that Mexico’s first business jet and civil helicopter training centre is open and ready for pilot training. New full-flight simulators (FFS) for the Bombardier Learjet 40/45 aircraft and the Bell 412 helicopter were recently qualified to Level D-equivalent standards by Mexico’s Direccion General de Aeronautica Civil (DGAC). The new CAE training centre... Read more

Three Mi-17V-5 for Mexico

Three Mi-17V-5 for Mexico

2-Jan-2012Source: Novosti

Mexico bought three Russian Mi-17V-5 tactical transport helicopters, an informed source in the Mexican military circles told a Russian news agency (see full story).  File photo... Read more

Helipool Europe adds EC120 from Mexico

Helipool Europe adds EC120 from Mexico

9-Dec-2011Source: HeliHub.com

Swiss operator Helipool Europe has this week added Eurocopter EC120B HB-ZMR to its fleet,  having imported it from Mexico.  It is expected to be based at Balzers. The company also owns an AS350B3 and an EC130B4 both of which are leased to Air Glaciers at Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland with it’s famous holiday resorts Grindelwald and... Read more

NTSB to assist Mexico in AS332 accident investigation

NTSB to assist Mexico in AS332 accident investigation

14-Nov-2011Source: NTSB

At the request of the Mexican Government, the NTSB is sending a team of investigators to assist in their investigation of Friday’s crash of an Aerospatiale AS 332L Super Puma. On November 11, 2011, about 0845 local time, the Eurocopter, enroute from Camp Marte, Mexico to Cuernavaca, Morelos, crashed in a rural area south of... Read more

11-Nov-11 XC-UHP Eurocopter AS332L1 Temamatla, Mexico (8F)

11-Nov-11 XC-UHP Eurocopter AS332L1 Temamatla, Mexico (8F)

11-Nov-2011

Crashed killed Interior Secretary Francisco Blake and seven others.  NOTE, there is a question over which aircraft was involved.  Local reports (links 1 and 2 below) say XC-UHP (which is serial 2084)  but the NTSB report (link 3)  says XC-UHM (2127)... Read more

Bell delivers three 412s and a 429 into Mexico

Bell delivers three 412s and a 429 into Mexico

27-Oct-2011Source: Bell

Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company (NYSE: TXT), announced today it has delivered four Bell aircraft into Mexico – three Bell 412s and the first Bell 429 into Mexico earlier this year. The three Bell 412s were delivered to Heliservicio Campeche to support its oil & gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Bell Helicopter... Read more

Eurocopter begins construction of new Mexican facility

Eurocopter begins construction of new Mexican facility

27-Oct-2011Source: Eurocopter

A groundbreaking ceremony yesterday marked the official start of construction work on Eurocopter’s new manufacturing plant in Querétaro, Mexico, which will manufacture aeronautical components and subassemblies. This industrial facility – situated within the Aerotech Park adjacent to Querétaro International Airport – will be dedicated to the production and assembly of helicopter and aircraft components, such... Read more

21-Oct-11 XC-EDM AgustaWestland AW109S Del Carmen Coyoacán, Mexico (2F)

21-Oct-11 XC-EDM AgustaWestland AW109S Del Carmen Coyoacán, Mexico (2F)

21-Oct-2011

Crashed into a built-up area.  Pilot Juan Manuel Ruiz Rivera and Metropolitan Development Secretary Fernando Alberto Garcia Cuevas survived.   Two fatally injured – as Julio Cesar Macerano, Garcia Cuevas’ assistant, and the co-pilot of the aircraft, Juan Esteban Rodriguez.... Read more

Mexican State of Jalisco takes delivery of S-70i

Mexican State of Jalisco takes delivery of S-70i

1-Oct-2011Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. has delivered an S-70i BLACK HAWK helicopter to Jalisco, the first state government in Mexico to acquire the newest variant of the world’s most employed military utility aircraft. Jalisco state police will deploy the aircraft for general law enforcement with initial aircraft operation anticipated during October’s XVI Pan American Games. Sikorsky is... Read more

18-Sep-11 XA-UFE Robinson R44 Nichupte, Mexico

18-Sep-11 XA-UFE Robinson R44 Nichupte, Mexico

18-Sep-2011

Landed in a lagoon during a tour flight.  The aircraft ended up completely submerged.  Pilot Ricardo Bulerui and tourists Ricardo Santos and Eduardo Abelnai were not hurt in the crash.... Read more

Pegaso leases four new EC145s from Milestone

Pegaso leases four new EC145s from Milestone

8-Sep-2011Source: Milestone Aviation Group

Milestone Aviation Group, the first global finance company focused exclusively on the helicopter and private jet markets, announced today the lease to Transportes Aereos Pegaso (Pegaso) of four new Eurocopter EC-145 helicopters. Pegaso, a leading Mexican air transport company and long-standing Eurocopter customer, will use the four helicopters to serve its new long-term contract with... Read more

Did helicopter pilot lie in drowning case?

Did helicopter pilot lie in drowning case?

1-Sep-2011Source: HeliHub.com

A jury is currently deliberating a case in Houston were a Department of Homeland Security pilot stands accused of lying about whether he flew his helicopter low over two would-be illegal immigrants in the Rio Grande in South Texas before one of the men drowned. Surveillance video footage allegedly shows pilot James Peters flying his... Read more

Three UH-60Ms handed over to Mexican Navy

Three UH-60Ms handed over to Mexican Navy

29-Aug-2011

The transfer of the helicopters from the United States Northern Command demonstrates American goodwill and commitment to help Mexico against “international criminal organizations that represent a threat to the peace and democracy of our nation,” said Rear Adm. Jorge Carlos Morales Gonzalez, who accepted the aircraft for the Armada de Mexico. (see full story)... Read more

10-Aug-11 1632 Bell B206 Zoh Laguna, Mexico

10-Aug-11 1632 Bell B206 Zoh Laguna, Mexico

10-Aug-2011

Public Security reported that it learned of this incident that injured the pilot, copilot and mechanic, who were admitted to General Hospital Xpujil... Read more

Mexican military helicopter lands in Texas by mistake

Mexican military helicopter lands in Texas by mistake

8-Aug-2011Source: Houston Chronicle

A Mexican military helicopter landed Saturday afternoon at Laredo International Airport by mistake, said a spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. (Full story)... Read more

CAE sells Bell 412 simulator to Mexico

CAE sells Bell 412 simulator to Mexico

20-Jul-2011Source: CAE

CAE today announced that it has sold four CAE 7000 Series Level D full-flight simulators (FFS) and associated training devices with a total list price of approximately C$60 million: an Airbus A320 FFS to Aeroflot, the largest airline of the Russian Federation; an A320 and a B737 to the Zhuhai Flight Training Centre (ZFTC), a... Read more

Mexico’s State of Jalisco to purchase S-70i

Mexico’s State of Jalisco to purchase S-70i

21-Jun-2011Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today announced the contract to sell one S-70i BLACK HAWK helicopter to the state of Jalisco in Mexico. With the sale, Jalisco will become the first state in Mexico to acquire its own BLACK HAWK helicopter. Sikorsky is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX). Jalisco is one of 31 states in... Read more

28-May-11 MD Helicopters MD530F Apatzingan, Mexico

28-May-11 MD Helicopters MD530F Apatzingan, Mexico

28-May-2011

A helicopter from the Mexican Air Force (FAM) crashed on Saturday near Apatzingan, Michoacan, apparently as a result of mechanical failure in the aircraft... Read more

Police R44 for Mexico’s Colima state gets embroiled in politics

Police R44 for Mexico’s Colima state gets embroiled in politics

18-May-2011Source: HeliHub.com

The governor of Mexico’s Colima state has confirmed an order for a police-equipped Robinson R44.  However, politicians from the two main opposition parties Partido Acción Nacional and Partido Nueva Alianza are both aiming to make political mileage by comparing the state government’s pricing of the whole project at $1.2 million, and Robinson’s list price of... Read more

CAE to add Bell 412 simulator in Mexico

CAE to add Bell 412 simulator in Mexico

16-May-2011Source: CAE

CAE today announced on the eve of the European Business Aviation Convention and Exposition (EBACE) that it will double the number of locations in its global business aviation training network from four to eight over the next 24 months. This will provide CAE business aviation customers with conveniently accessible training in every major region of... Read more

Mexican operator Pegaso orders five EC145s, plus five more on option

Mexican operator Pegaso orders five EC145s, plus five more on option

10-Mar-2011Source: HeliHub.com

Transportes Aéreos Pegaso, who already operate one of the largest Eurocopter fleets in Latin America, have placed an order for five Ec145s to fulfil a transportation contract with CFE (Comisión Federal de Electricidad).  The customer is the national electricity company for Mexico. Pegaso already operates six EC145s, including the one shown in the photo below... Read more

Barefoot waterski speed record broken – behind an AW119

Barefoot waterski speed record broken – behind an AW119

8-Mar-2011Source: HeliHub.com

Mexican businessman Fernando Reina Iglesias broke the world speed record for barefoot water skiing on 2nd March, it has emerged.  Towed behind an AgustaWestland AW119 in Acapulco, Reina reached 153mph, breaking the previous record of 135mph set by American skier Scott Pellaton 22 years ago.  Public notary Manlio Favio Pano witnessed the event, helping the... Read more

Eurocopter to create production line in Querétaro, Mexico

Eurocopter to create production line in Querétaro, Mexico

9-Feb-2011Source: Eurocopter

Eurocopter will create a new industrial facility in Querétaro, Mexico to support its global production network, further reinforcing the company’s manufacturing capabilities while also augmenting its presence in the Latin American marketplace. This selection results from a comprehensive study to determine the optimum location for this latest production facility in Eurocopter’s international industrial network, with... Read more

Town of Ciudad Juárez to add public safety helicopter

Town of Ciudad Juárez to add public safety helicopter

7-Feb-2011Source: HeliHub.com

Meixco’s State Government of Chihuahua will donate one helicopter to the town of Ciudad Juárez to strengthen their public safety department.  No details were given on the type of helicopter or its current/potential equipment level. The announcement was made by Governor César Duarte Jáquez while visiting the town last Tuesday for a regional security meeting... Read more

27-Jan-11 XA-KLA AgustaWestland AW119 Mexico City, Mexico

27-Jan-11 XA-KLA AgustaWestland AW119 Mexico City, Mexico

27-Jan-2011

Pilot was José Manuel Covarruvias García, 36, and hospitalised for assessment.  Passenger was not named and not injured.  Helicopter sustained damage to landing gear, the transmission system and the tail rotor.  [Some translations of local language news reports wrongly quote the pilot as being killed]... Read more

Mexico Federal Police takes delivery of three UH-60Ms

Mexico Federal Police takes delivery of three UH-60Ms

24-Jan-2011

[We include this Sikorsky press release merely for completeness.  HeliHub.com reported this story over seven weeks ago here] The Department of State has delivered three UH-60M BLACK HAWK helicopters to the Government of Mexico’s Federal Police (FP). Designed and manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX), the aircraft are the first... Read more

08-Dec-10 Bell 412 State of Veracruz, Mexico (4F)

08-Dec-10 Bell 412 State of Veracruz, Mexico (4F)

8-Dec-2010

The helicopter was carrying six security officers, two inmates, an official from the country’s organized crime investigation unit, and two pilots.  Local reports differ on the number of fatalities, some saying 3, others 4, others 7.  Weather was apparently a factor... Read more

FAA raises safety rating for Mexico

FAA raises safety rating for Mexico

2-Dec-2010Source: FAA

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced that Mexico complies with international safety standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), based on the results of a November FAA review of Mexico’s civil aviation authority. Under the leadership of Secretary Juan Molinar and Director General Hector Gonzalez... Read more

Mexican Federal Police take delivery of three UH-60Ms

Mexican Federal Police take delivery of three UH-60Ms

1-Dec-2010Source: Policia Federal

In a ceremony headed by the Secretary of Public Security, Genaro Garcia Luna Engineer and U.S. Ambassador Carlos Pascual Mexico , in the Command Center of the Federal Police , carried out the delivery of three UH-60M Black Hawk, aircraft entirely new, specially designed to the specifications required by the federal Public Security Secretariat. The... Read more

US gives Mexico three UH-60Ms for counter narcotics work

US gives Mexico three UH-60Ms for counter narcotics work

26-Nov-2010Source: US Embassy in Mexico

The United States Department of State announced today the delivery of three Black Hawk UH-60M helicopters to the Government of Mexico’s Federal Police force (SSP). The helicopters, valued at $64 million, mark the first Merida Initiative aviation delivery to the SSP and will compliment the SSP’s current air fleet by expanding law enforcement operations, allowing... Read more

SkyTrac Systems to exhibit at Expo CIAM 2010 show in Mexico

SkyTrac Systems to exhibit at Expo CIAM 2010 show in Mexico

18-Nov-2010Source: SkyTrac Systems

SkyTrac Systems is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting at the CIAM Trade Show and Congress from November 20-22, 2010 in Cancun, Mexico. CIAM 2010 is the “Latin American business meeting”, that brings together the most important aircraft manufacturers, equipment, services and aviation systems within the Latin American Aviation Community. Cancun is the... Read more

Kaman inaurugates manufacturing facility in Mexico

Kaman inaurugates manufacturing facility in Mexico

12-Nov-2010Source: Kaman

Kaman Aerostructures, a division of Kaman Aerospace Corporation, today formally inaugurated its new state of the art manufacturing facility in the city of Chihuahua. On hand for the ceremony were Alberto Chretin Castillo, Secretary of the Economy representing César Horacio Duarte Jáquez, Governor of the State of Chihuahua; Marco Adán Quezada Martinez, Mayor of Chihuahua;... Read more

Eurocopter’s investment in Mexico to generate up to 10,000 jobs

Eurocopter’s investment in Mexico to generate up to 10,000 jobs

29-Oct-2010Source: Vuelo Libre

New facility expected to generate 10,000 direct and indirect jobs and stimulate the market for suppliers of parts of the aviation sector,... Read more

Jet Rescue opens new EMS service in Mexico City

Jet Rescue opens new EMS service in Mexico City

20-Oct-2010Source: Jet Rescue Air Ambulance

Mexico City – Jet Rescue Air Ambulance is proud to announce the opening of a new business unit based in Mexico City. The “Critical Air” business unit offers emergency evacuation by means of its A-119 Koala air ambulance helicopter. Quick response teams are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, in most weather... Read more

15-Oct-10 XA-IUR Bell 212 Las Choapas, Mexico (9F)

15-Oct-10 XA-IUR Bell 212 Las Choapas, Mexico (9F)

15-Oct-2010

** WARNING the photo in the first link contains a disturbing on-scene image **. Early reports gave a figure of 8 fatalities, but the final figure was 9 – Leonardo Andrés Pérez Arteaga, 29 (pilot), Manuel Montes Ríos Heder, 27 (co-pilot), Jonathan Gutierrez Baeza, 23, José Luis Salas Ventura, 32, Aaron Ortiz Gerardo Olvera, 26,... Read more

Mexico orders six more EC725s

Mexico orders six more EC725s

21-Sep-2010Source: Eurocopter

The Mexican Ministry of Defense has signed an agreement with Eurocopter for the purchase of six EC725 helicopters. Together with the same number of rotary-wing aircraft ordered in March of last year, Eurocopter will now be supplying a total of 12 EC725s to Mexico’s SEDENA (Secretaría de La Defensa Nacional) beginning in the second quarter... Read more

Mexico signs deal for six Eurocopter EC725s

Mexico signs deal for six Eurocopter EC725s

16-Sep-2010Source: Expatica

Mexico signed a deal with France to buy six military helicopters from Eurocopter on Wednesday, officials said, amid increasing pressure on its troops in a wave of drug-related violence.... Read more

Night Flight Concepts completes training for Mexican SAR unit

Night Flight Concepts completes training for Mexican SAR unit

16-Sep-2010Source: Night Flight Concepts

Night Flight Concepts (NFC), provided specialized Airborne Law Enforcement Training to the Mexico State Government’s Air Rescue Unit. Night Flight Concepts is the industry’s premier provider of night vision goggle equipment, training, and maintenance solutions. The Mexico State Government’s Air Rescue Unit training was conducted on-site at the Units location in Toluca, Mexico. The training... Read more

Sikorsky awarded $36M contract to convert three UH-60M to Mexican Navy spec

Sikorsky awarded $36M contract to convert three UH-60M to Mexican Navy spec

13-Sep-2010Source: US Dept of Defense

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., was awarded on Sept. 7 a $36,580,000 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement to convert three diverted UH-60M aircraft to the Mexico Navy configuration to include the integrated operator manuals, technical data packages, and the aircraft warranty.  Estimated completion time is Dec. 31, 2010, with work to be performed at Stratford,... Read more

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