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Boeing awarded $97M for Apache foreign military sales

Boeing awarded $97M for Apache foreign military sales

30-May-2012Source: US DoD

The Boeing Co., Mesa, Ariz., was awarded a $97,268,761 firm-fixed-price contract.  The award will provide for the modification of an existing contract to procure Block III Apache AH-64D attack helicopters in support of Foreign Military Sales.  Work will be performed in Mesa, Ariz., with an estimated completion date of Dec. 30, 2017.  One bid was... Read more

EADS awarded $26M for LUH program logistics

EADS awarded $26M for LUH program logistics

30-May-2012Source: US DoD

EADS – NA, Herndon, Va., was awarded a $26,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract.  The award will provide for the modification of an existing contract to supply contractor logistics in support of the Light Utility Helicopter Program.  Work will be performed in Columbus, Miss., with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2012.  One bid was solicited, with... Read more

India becomes 10th country to approve increased weight for Bell 429

India becomes 10th country to approve increased weight for Bell 429

30-May-2012Source: Bell

Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company (NYSE: TXT), announced today India’s Director General of Civil Aviation has joined the growing number of countries who have approved the increased maximum gross weight for the Bell 429 based on Transport Canada’s certification. India is the tenth country to approve the 500 lb. increase to 7,500 lbs. Transport... Read more

Canada – Chinook Regional Hospital opens new helipad

Canada – Chinook Regional Hospital opens new helipad

29-May-2012Source: Alberta Health

STARS air ambulances are now able to land and take off from Chinook Regional Hospital’s new helipad, which was officially approved for use last week by Transport Canada. The helipad, located on the roof of the hospital’s parkade, is rated to handle 8,000 kilograms and will accommodate STARS’ current Eurocopter BK-117 helicopter, as well as... Read more

California – EMS helipad added to Pauma Valley Airport strip

California – EMS helipad added to Pauma Valley Airport strip

29-May-2012Source: Union-Times

The helipad is on the Pauma Valley airport strip. It will allow Mercy Air Services to land quickly and take off when patients with medical emergencies need to be transported fast to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido or other facilities. (see full story)... Read more

HeliHub.com launches daily email of EMS headlines and safety data

HeliHub.com launches daily email of EMS headlines and safety data

29-May-2012Source: HeliHub.com

HeliHub.com is today launching a third daily email bulletin – specifically focusing on helicopters in the EMS (Emergency medical Serviceas) role.  This will pick up news items, accident reports etc related to the operation of helicopters as air ambulances.  While the news stories are an overlap with our main daily news headlines email, this one... Read more

UK – Two more new AW139s for CHC

UK – Two more new AW139s for CHC

29-May-2012Source: HeliHub.com

CHC Scotia Ltd yesterday registered two more new AW139s on the British Register.  Serial number 31414 as G-MGAR and 31418 as G-LOWC. This brings their UK registered fleet to eight, including the three contracted for Coastguard SAR work. Jeremy Parkin – HeliHub.com... Read more

AgustaWestland set to discuss the future at June conference

AgustaWestland set to discuss the future at June conference

29-May-2012Source: HeliHub.com

In late June, AgustaWestland will not only host the West of England Aerospace Forum, but they will also present their vision for the future on various topics.  Three AW speakers are scheduled to present, and their topics are as follows Ray Edwards (Managing Director, AgustaWestland UK) – “Competiveness and Diversification – Defining  the future  of... Read more

Lessons learned shared at Utility Helicopters Users’ Conference

Lessons learned shared at Utility Helicopters Users’ Conference

29-May-2012Source: US Army

There is no better exchange that proves more effective, helps solve problems and identifies better opportunities for efficiencies and improvement in products and services than a face-to-face interaction between all the stakeholders. That’s exactly what transpired at the Utility Helicopters Users’ Conference May 22-24 at the Von Braun Center. “This week is about our soldiers... Read more

Two helicopter accidents in Afghanistan on Monday, one fatal

Two helicopter accidents in Afghanistan on Monday, one fatal

29-May-2012Source: HeliHub.com

This 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 searches,... Read more

Queensland AW139 makes night emergency landing with NVG

Queensland AW139 makes night emergency landing with NVG

29-May-2012Source: HeliHub.com

This 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 searches,... Read more

Pilot dies in PHi LongRanger accident in Gulf of Mexico

Pilot dies in PHi LongRanger accident in Gulf of Mexico

29-May-2012Source: HeliHub.com

This 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 searches,... Read more

Enterprise Ventures wins $12.5M deal to build MH-60S Carriage, Stream, Tow, and Recovery System

Enterprise Ventures wins $12.5M deal to build MH-60S Carriage, Stream, Tow, and Recovery System

28-May-2012Source: Enterprise Ventures

Enterprise Ventures Corporation (EVC) has been awarded a $12.5 million contract from Naval Surface Warfare Center – Panama City Division (NSWC-PCD). Under this contract, EVC will build the U.S. Navy Carriage, Stream, Tow, and Recovery System (CSTRS) for the MH-60S helicopter. The CSTRS provides the multi-mission MH-60S helicopter with the widest, largest minesweeping capability by... Read more

Managing Director of Bond Offshore Helicopters quits

Managing Director of Bond Offshore Helicopters quits

28-May-2012Source: Bond Aviation Group

The second part of Bond’s press release deserves a separate story… It was also announced that Bill Munro has decided to step aside as Managing Director of Bond Offshore Helicopters. Malcolm Paine, hitherto Director of Operations at the company, will assume leadership of the business with immediate effect. Paine brings an extensive knowledge of Bond... Read more

Bond Aviation Group appoints new CEO

Bond Aviation Group appoints new CEO

28-May-2012Source: Bond Aviation Group

Bond issue a two-part announcement of people changes, here is part 1… The Bond Aviation Group announces the appointment of Richard Mintern to the role of Chief Executive Officer. Mintern comes with nearly 30 years’ experience leading different functions of international aviation businesses, most recently as Group COO of The Monarch Travel Group. Prior to... Read more

UK – Herts Air Ambulance adds new response vehicle

UK – Herts Air Ambulance adds new response vehicle

28-May-2012Source: Herts Air Ambulance

Herts Air Ambulance is being backed up with a new response vehicle thanks to the region’s emergency vehicle services and repair specialists, Essex Emergency Services 2000 Ltd in Romford, Essex. Essex & Herts Air Ambulance Trust Clinical Manager, Stuart Elms took delivery of the Volvo 4×4 on Friday 4th May at North Weald Airfield, home of the... Read more

S-92 flotation system certified

S-92 flotation system certified

28-May-2012Source: Sikorsky

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has formally approved the S-92® helicopter for Sea State 6 (SS6) conditions – up to 20-foot waves – thus completing the S-92A emergency flotation system sea state expansion. “We believe this is the first ever FAA certification to this Sea State (20-foot waves). This system was designed by the S-92... Read more

S-76D continues on path to certification

S-76D continues on path to certification

28-May-2012Source: Sikorsky

Three S-76Dâ„¢ helicopter prototypes are in flight test at Sikorsky Aircraft’s Development Flight Center as the aircraft continues to mature in flight test and post excellent performance results. Commercial Programs Director Dan Hunter said the S-76D prototypes have logged more than 850 flight hours to date, and first quarter 2012 activity has included the collection... Read more

Med-Trans Florida Takes Flight

Med-Trans Florida Takes Flight

28-May-2012Source: Med-Trans

Med-Trans Florida, located at Tamiami Airport in Miami is the second aircraft in the southeast region of Florida for Med-Trans Corporation.  Med-Trans Florida will serve as a community asset, rapidly transporting critically ill and injured patients needing urgent acute critical care.  Med-Trans Florida has Preferred Provider Agreements with numerous health systems throughout South Florida and... Read more

Canada – Boundary Hospital in Grand Forks to add helipad

Canada – Boundary Hospital in Grand Forks to add helipad

28-May-2012Source: Boundary Sentinel

The Boundary Hospital heliport will be used by the dedicated emergency helicopter BC Ambulance Services has based in Kamloops to serve residents of the southern interior.  Interior Health is issuing an RFP for the planning and design phase of the heliport project. (see full story)... Read more

New head of NTSB Office of Aviation Safety named

New head of NTSB Office of Aviation Safety named

28-May-2012Source: NTSB

National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah A. P. Hersman announced the selection of John DeLisi as the new Director of the Office of Aviation Safety (OAS). Mr. DeLisi will assume his new position on June 2, 2012 following the retirement of Tom Haueter, the current director. “It gives me great pleasure to announce John’s selection... Read more

Life Flight Network to open new base in Pendleton, Oregon

Life Flight Network to open new base in Pendleton, Oregon

28-May-2012Source: Life Flight Network

Life Flight Network (LFN), a not-for-profit air medical transport service in the Northwest and Intermountain West, announced today they will open a new helicopter base in Pendleton, Oregon on June 1, 2012. “Our decision to open a base in Pendleton follows dialogue with area healthcare professionals to confirm introducing our air medical capabilities into the... Read more

Sierra Leone to compensate families of Togolese accident victims

Sierra Leone to compensate families of Togolese accident victims

28-May-2012

Sierra Leone’s transport minister said Friday that relatives of 19 Togolese football fans who died in a helicopter crash in 2007, including Togo’s sports minister, would receive compensation (see full story)... Read more

Baltimore’s Pier 7 Heliport adds Belfort automated weather system

Baltimore’s Pier 7 Heliport adds Belfort automated weather system

28-May-2012Source: Belfort Instrument

Belfort Instrument Company, one of the country’s oldest meteorological sensor and meteorological system manufactures, has installed its DigiWxTM Automated Weather Observation System (AWOS) at the Pier 7 Heliport. The AWOS AV provides real-time wind speed, wind direction, temperature, relative humidity, dew point, altimeter, visibility and cloud height on a graphical display, over a VHF frequency,... Read more

EMS Bell 407 fire-bombed on hospital helipad

EMS Bell 407 fire-bombed on hospital helipad

28-May-2012Source: HeliHub.com

This 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 searches,... Read more

Conklin & de Decker and NATA to hold tax seminar

Conklin & de Decker and NATA to hold tax seminar

28-May-2012Source: Conklin & de Decker

Conklin & de Decker Associates, Inc and the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) are pleased to announce that they are continuing to partner again this year to offer the Commercial Operators Tax Seminar. This year’s Tax Seminar will be held in Scottsdale, Arizona on August 7-8, 2012. Unique from other tax seminars and workshops, the... Read more

Midlands Air Ambulance celebrates 21 years

Midlands Air Ambulance celebrates 21 years

28-May-2012Source: Midlands Air Ambulance

Midlands Air Ambulance Charity is celebrating its 21stanniversary this week! Monday, May 21st marked 21 years of life saving missions for the rapid response service and the charity would like to say thank you for all the local support received over the last 21 years, ensuring the service has remained operational. The charity completed its first airlift... Read more

Pakistan’s Sindh Government to spend $5.4M annually renting a helicopter

Pakistan’s Sindh Government to spend $5.4M annually renting a helicopter

28-May-2012Source: The International News

The Government of Sindh, one of Pakistan’s four provinces, previously operated a Bell LongRanger and 412, which were withdrawn in 2010 and 2009 respectively due to required overhaul costs – both had been acquired new in 1992.  The government has now decided the cost of a new helicopter, maintenance etc would be much higher, and... Read more

Dallas Airmotive appoint new manager for F1RST SUPPORT command center

Dallas Airmotive appoint new manager for F1RST SUPPORT command center

28-May-2012Source: Dallas Airmotive

Tracy Gandy has joined Dallas Airmotive, a BBA Aviation Engine Repair and Overhaul Group (ERO) company, as Manager of the company’s F1RST SUPPORTâ„¢ operations. Gandy will oversee day-to-day operations of the F1RST SUPPORT command center in Grapevine, Texas and field service technicians across the United States. F1RST SUPPORT is an integrated real-time system that utilizes... Read more

Cognitive Interviewing and Aviation Accident Investigation Courses Offered by NTSB

Cognitive Interviewing and Aviation Accident Investigation Courses Offered by NTSB

28-May-2012Source: NTSB

The National Transportation Safety Board is offering three courses in the coming months at its training center just outside Washington, D.C. Slots are still available in the two-day COGNITIVE INTERVIEWING FOR ACCIDENT INVESTIGATORS course (June 19-20), which provides participants with the tools to conduct sound investigative interviews of participants in, and witnesses to, transportation incidents... Read more

UH-1 takes up place in the Great Gallery of Museum of Flight

UH-1 takes up place in the Great Gallery of Museum of Flight

28-May-2012Source: Museum of Flight

Following a lengthy restoration, the Museum’s Vietnam veteran Bell UH-1H “Huey” helicopter takes a place of honor in the Great Gallery. This new, permanent exhibit was officially opened during a brief ceremony near the exhibit on Saturday 26th May at 11am. The ceremony was open to the public, and was attended by members of the... Read more

Chilton County Sheriff acquires OH-6

Chilton County Sheriff acquires OH-6

28-May-2012Source: Clanton Advertiser

Chilton County Sheriff Kevin Davis acquired a plane and helicopter for the department to use. Ken Gilliland of B&G Flying Service Inc (which operates out of the Chilton County Airport) was named a reserve deputy, and will pilot and maintain the aircraft (see full story)... Read more

LoJack Helps Law Enforcement Make Two Great Rescues In One Week

LoJack Helps Law Enforcement Make Two Great Rescues In One Week

28-May-2012Source: LoJack

Thanks to a pair of services from LoJack Corporation (NASDAQ: LOJN) and its subsidiary LoJack SafetyNet, law enforcement agencies on opposite coasts of the U.S. were able to make two great saves this week, rescuing two young kidnapped children who were inside a stolen Lexus in Burien, WA, and an elderly Marshfield, MA man with Alzheimer’s who wandered from... Read more

Tourist flights proposed over Zion National Park

Tourist flights proposed over Zion National Park

28-May-2012

Zion National Park is a big tourist attraction and a businessman wants to give visitors a view from above of the park and other attractions. But some residents, including the mayor, object to part of his plan. (see full story)... Read more

UK – Ninewells Hospital helipad vandalised

UK – Ninewells Hospital helipad vandalised

28-May-2012Source: STV

The helipad is on the grass area at Maggie’s Centre near to the entrance to accident and emergency. It consists of a concrete square with a ring of recessed landing beacons, which were damaged. (see full story)... Read more

Fishtail Air achieve long-line vertical-face rescue at 6,380m altitude

Fishtail Air achieve long-line vertical-face rescue at 6,380m altitude

25-May-2012Source: Fishtail Air

Our Italian duo of rescue experts Capt. Piergiorgio Rosati and Capt. (Mountain climber) Simone Moro rescued the dead body of a Ukrainian man whose body has been stuck at Tengkangpoche about 18 months using the longline from our B3 helicopter. The Ukrainian climber had been climbing the Tengkangpoche peak 18 months ago with his female... Read more

Global Vectra director launches second court case to get company flying again

Global Vectra director launches second court case to get company flying again

25-May-2012Source: News Track India

A director and a shareholder of Global Vectra Helicorp, the aviation arm of the Ravi Rishi-led Vectra Group, Thursday moved the Delhi High Court against the suspension of its permit to fly choppers.  The court is already hearing the plea of Global Vectra Helicorp against the DGCA’s order.  (see full story)  ... Read more

L-3 Wescam wins $10M EO/IR contract from Canadian military

L-3 Wescam wins $10M EO/IR contract from Canadian military

25-May-2012Source: L-3 Wescam

L-3 WESCAM announced today that it has been awarded an in-service support contract valued at $10 million by Public Works and Government Services Canada on behalf of the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND). The contract fulfills the DND’s requirement for long-term product support of its WESCAM electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) imaging systems and mission equipment packages... Read more

Hawke’s Bay SAR crew recognised for dangerous rescue

Hawke’s Bay SAR crew recognised for dangerous rescue

25-May-2012Source: Hawkes Bay Today

A  Lowe Corporation rescue helicopter crew from Hawke’s Bay has won the NZSAR Gold Award for the most significant contribution to search and rescue in 2011 following a harrowing rescue off Cape Kidnappers.  (see full story)... Read more

NTSB Safety Recommendations on Amateur-Built Aircraft

NTSB Safety Recommendations on Amateur-Built Aircraft

25-May-2012Source: HAI

A gap in safety between experimental and certificated aircraft is widest on the first flight, and the early hours of flying in a new pilot’s hands. That is among the conclusions of a detailed analysis released by the NTSB on May 22 along with a set of recommended changes approved unanimously by the board. Working... Read more

Applications for 2013 HFI Scholarships open 1st June

Applications for 2013 HFI Scholarships open 1st June

25-May-2012Source: HFI

Helicopter Foundation International announces that it will begin accepting 2013 scholarship applications starting June 1, 2012. The deadline for applying for these scholarships, to be received at HFI headquarters, is no later than 11:59 p.m. on Nov., 30, 2012. Applications may be mailed or emailed. HFI offers up to four Commercial Helicopter Rating Scholarships, up... Read more

Miami commissioners approve Watson Island heliport

Miami commissioners approve Watson Island heliport

25-May-2012Source: Miami Herald

A New Jersey company will build and operate the new heliport, which will be known as the Watson Island Aviation and Visitors Center (see full story)... Read more

Northwest MedStar Launches Alert App to Reduce Response Time

Northwest MedStar Launches Alert App to Reduce Response Time

25-May-2012Source: Northwest MedStar

There’s an app for that. Just launched, the new app places Northwest MedStar on alert when air transport may be needed. MedStar Alert, one of the first smartphone applications in the nation developed by a critical care transport provider for EMS providers, launched as part of EMS appreciation week celebrations. A free EMS application, MedStar... Read more

ORNGE ran $14.5-million deficit, documents show

ORNGE ran $14.5-million deficit, documents show

25-May-2012

Leaked ORNGE budget documents obtained by the Progressive Conservatives show the air ambulance service was running a $14.5-million deficit (see full story)... Read more

UTair marks first year as Eurocopter Certified Center

UTair marks first year as Eurocopter Certified Center

25-May-2012Source: UTair

On May 18 at HeliRussia 2012 UTair Aviation and Eurocopter marked the 1 year anniversary of their jointly sponsored Training Center for pilots and maintenance personnel of  Eurocopter helicopters. The event was attended by the heads of both Eurocopter Vostok – the Russian subsidiary of the Eurocopter Group – and UTair – the leading helicopter... Read more

Sikorsky completes first S-61T airframe modernization

Sikorsky completes first S-61T airframe modernization

25-May-2012Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft’s Troy, Ala., facility announced today it has completed the structural modernization of its first S-61T™ airframe, which will now undergo completion at Carson Helicopters for eventual delivery to the U.S. State Department for diplomatic service in Afghanistan.  Sikorsky is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX). The State Department signed an agreement in 2010... Read more

13 Aviation Trade Groups Urge Congress to Support Biofuels

13 Aviation Trade Groups Urge Congress to Support Biofuels

25-May-2012Source: HAI

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... 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

Metro Aviation on record pace during 30th year

Metro Aviation on record pace during 30th year

25-May-2012Source: Metro Aviation

Celebrating 30 years in business, Metro Aviation continues on a record pace both with their aircraft completions business unit as well as the air medical operations division. The company has recently integrated the GPS Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) capability into their existing EC145 Single/Dual Pilot IFR (SP/DPIFR) STC utilizing the Garmin GNS 200 Multi-function Display,... Read more

South Africa – AW119 found smeared in mud, and blades cut off

South Africa – AW119 found smeared in mud, and blades cut off

25-May-2012

An AW119 belonging to alleged underworld tycoon and businessman Frikkie Lutzkie mysteriously crashed near the border with Botswana. The crash is being investigated by the Northern Cape Organised Crime Unit (see full story and three photos).  HeliHub.com editor note – a photo in happier times (taken December 2010) can be found here... Read more

Guimbal develops iPad dock for Cabri

Guimbal develops iPad dock for Cabri

25-May-2012Source: HeliHub.com

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... Read more

The Helicopter Museum gives special access to Royal helicopter

The Helicopter Museum gives special access to Royal helicopter

24-May-2012Source: The Helicopter Museum

If you would like to savour the luxury of Her Majesty The Queen’s own helicopter, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity will be available over the Bank Holiday weekend of June 2nd – 4th, when The Helicopter Museum at Weston-super-Mare opens up its Royal Wessex helicopter to visitors.  Be sure to bring your children and your camera too.... Read more

Clubhouse talk – comparing the R66 with an EC120

Clubhouse talk – comparing the R66 with an EC120

24-May-2012Source: HeliHub.com

You know how it is.  You go down to the clubhouse to have a drink with some friends, and inevitably the conversation will turn to aviation.  This time I was asked how I would compare the Eurocopter EC120 against a Robinson R66.  So we resorted to a comparison by numbers using brochures etc – and... Read more

Portugal’s 751 Squadron passes landmark 2,751 rescues

Portugal’s 751 Squadron passes landmark 2,751 rescues

24-May-2012Source: HeliHub.com

Portugal’s 751 Squadron, responsible for the country’s SAR helicopters, had achieved a milestone 2,751 rescues.  The key rescue was made in the Azores chain of islands in the Atlantic on 20th May when they transported a pregnant woman from the island of Graciosa to a hospital at Angra do Heroísmo on the island of Terceira. ... Read more

Neonate learns to fly

Neonate learns to fly

24-May-2012Source: AH Ink

Heli-Air Design’s Helineo ultralight helicopter completed its first flight at Metz Nancy Lorraine airport, in north-east France, on 26 April. Under the control of test-pilot Stéphane Lignier, the three-blade turbine-engined two-seater made fifteen take-offs and a series of hover-taxy manoeuvres inside ground effect. According to HAD’s Jean Fiaud, the flight demonstrated that the helicopter complies... Read more

China’s Kunming thinks big – a GA airport and 15 helicopters please

China’s Kunming thinks big – a GA airport and 15 helicopters please

24-May-2012Source: HeliHub.com

Kunming is one of a few prefecture-level cities in China, and is the capitan of Yunnan province.  With a population of 6.5 million, Kunming appears ahead of its fellow states and cities with an ambitious general aviation plan.  This week they have announced the intention to build a GA airfield from scratch, and intend purchasing... Read more

Australia – Helicopter pilot pleads guilty to crash charges

Australia – Helicopter pilot pleads guilty to crash charges

24-May-2012Source: ABC

Darwin Magistrates Court has heard 41-year-old Mark Sullivan strapped a power generator filled with fuel into an empty passenger seat of the helicopter and failed to comply with a number of procedures outlined in an operations manual. (see full story)... Read more

Mayor Bloomberg to stop using E34 Heliport on weekends

Mayor Bloomberg to stop using E34 Heliport on weekends

24-May-2012Source: http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/investigators&id=8673840

A neighbour has been videoing New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg using his S76 in and out of East 34th Street Heliport at weekends when the heliport is closed.  Sounds to us like a mismatch between Bloomberg considering that heliport is open although the terminal is closed and fuel not available – and the neighbours who... Read more

UTair Engineering extends cooperation with Turbomeca Germany

UTair Engineering extends cooperation with Turbomeca Germany

24-May-2012Source: UTair

On May 17 at the 5th annual International Helicopter Exhibition HeliRussia 2012 held in Moscow, UTair Aviation subsidiary UTair-Engineering and Turbomeca Germany signed an agreement for the construction of a new MRO Center for Turbomeca engines and their components.  Turbomeca is a global leader in the manufacture of helicopter engines and components. The purpose of... Read more

Unapproved Parts – Chelton/Wulfsberg ELT subcomponents

Unapproved Parts – Chelton/Wulfsberg ELT subcomponents

24-May-2012Source: FAA

The FAA have issued document No.: 2012-20111019001 as follows: AFFECTED PRODUCTS: Subcomponents and brackets produced by Chelton Avionics, Inc. (dba Wulfsberg Electronics Division) Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs) PURPOSE: This notification advises all aircraft owners, operators, manufacturers, maintenance organizations, and parts distributors regarding ELT subcomponents and brackets produced without Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) production approval. BACKGROUND:... Read more

Bristow ferry EC225 half way round the world

Bristow ferry EC225 half way round the world

24-May-2012Source: HeliHub.com

Bristow yesterday returned a Eurocopter EC225 to the British register as G-ZZSH, having previously been flying it in Australia for two years as VH-ZFH.  However, it is unusual for such ferry flights to be done by air, as was the case here. The EC225 finally landed at Aberdeen around 2pm on Tuesday, and while we... Read more

CHC transfers Super Puma from Angola to UK

CHC transfers Super Puma from Angola to UK

24-May-2012Source: HeliHub.com

CHC have in the last 24 hours registered a AS332L2 Super Puma in the UK – serial 2398 as G-CHCY.  This aircraft had previously been operated for eight years by SonAir in Angola in full CHC colours and titles. Jeremy Parkin – HeliHub.com... Read more

Sikorsky awarded $9M for H-53 swashplate and gearbox work

Sikorsky awarded $9M for H-53 swashplate and gearbox work

24-May-2012Source: US DoD

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., is being awarded a $9,064,199 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00383-06-D-003F) for the incorporation of two Naval Air Systems Command approved engineering change proposals supporting the H-53 helicopter:  Dynamic Component Change No. 97 swashplate, and Dynamic Component Change No. 94 gearbox.  Work for the nose gearboxes will be... Read more

Bristow Group announces results for Q4 and full year to 31st March 2012

Bristow Group announces results for Q4 and full year to 31st March 2012

24-May-2012Source: Bristow Group

Bristow Group Inc. (NYSE: BRS) today reported net income for the March 2012 quarter of $14.2 million, or $0.39 per diluted share, compared to net income of $30.9 million, or $0.84 per diluted share, in the same period a year ago.  Adjusted net income, which excludes special items and asset disposition effects, was $44.6 million, or $1.22 per diluted share, for the March 2012 quarter, an increase of $12.8 million,... Read more

Bristow Group announces 33% dividend increase

Bristow Group announces 33% dividend increase

24-May-2012Source: Bristow Group

Bristow Group Inc. (NYSE: BRS), the leading provider of helicopter services to the offshore energy industry, announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a 33 percent increase in the company’s dividend, resulting in a quarterly dividend of $0.20per share, up from $0.15 per share previously. The dividend will be payable on June 15, 2012 to stockholders of record at... Read more

CAE appoints new Military Group President

CAE appoints new Military Group President

23-May-2012Source: CAE

CAE is pleased to announce the appointment of Gene Colabatistto as its new Group President, Military Simulation Products, Training and Services. He will be replacing Martin Gagne who, after 16 years of service with CAE, has decided to retire. CAE is also pleased that Mr. Gagne has agreed to stay on as a consultant in... Read more

Eurocopter delivers first Airbus A350 XWB jetliner passenger door

Eurocopter delivers first Airbus A350 XWB jetliner passenger door

23-May-2012Source: Eurocopter

This month’s delivery of Eurocopter’s initial A350 XWB jetliner passenger door produced at its Donauwörth, Germany facility represents a further milestone in a program that underscores synergies between helicopter production and the construction of carbon fiber aircraft components. In a ceremony in Donauwörth’s C4 production building, Dr. Wolfgang Schoder, Eurocopter Executive Vice President – Programs,... Read more

Barclays London Heliport takes record bookings ahead of British Grand Prix

Barclays London Heliport takes record bookings ahead of British Grand Prix

23-May-2012Source: London Heliport

With six weeks still to go before the 2012 British Grand Prix, The Barclays London Heliport is anticipating its busiest weekend of the year to date, having confirmed record bookings for the forthcoming Formula 1 Santander Grand Prix at Silverstone.  Bookings from City-based corporates and private individuals ahead of the July 6-8th weekend are up on... Read more

Women in Aerospace announces Annual Conference

Women in Aerospace announces Annual Conference

23-May-2012Source: Women in Aerospace

Women in Aerospace (WIA), the leading professional group promoting women’s opportunities in aerospace, will hold its annual conference, “Aerospace 2012: Leading the Way,” on Friday, June 1, at the Key Bridge Marriott in Rosslyn. NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will open the conference, which brings together government and industry leaders to analyze key aerospace issues. The Aerospace... Read more

Specialist Aviation Services add another MD Explorer

Specialist Aviation Services add another MD Explorer

23-May-2012Source: HeliHub.com

Specialist Aviation Services has added another MD Explorer to its fleet – a lease from sister company European Support Centre bvba in Belgium.  SAS’s Nigel Lemon told HeliHub.com that they see greater market opportunity for the Explorer in the UK and have thus transferred it from the Belgian register – where it was OO-EMS –... Read more

Heliflight UK Ltd leaves Patriot Aerospace Group

Heliflight UK Ltd leaves Patriot Aerospace Group

23-May-2012Source: Heliflight UK

On 18th May 2012 Heliflight UK Ltd, one of Gloucestershire Airport’s longest established helicopter operators left the Patriot Aerospace Group and returned to its roots. Founder Jon Lane said ˜we’ve had an interesting couple of years as part of a larger organisation but with Patriot wanting to concentrate on its general aviation businesses at Coventry... Read more

All Metal to build custom maintenance stands for Chevron AW139s

All Metal to build custom maintenance stands for Chevron AW139s

23-May-2012Source: All Metal MS

All Metal MS, a leader in the development and manufacturing of safety first custom maintenance stands, maintenance support equipment and hangar equipment, announces that the Aircraft Operations of Chevron North America gave the approval to purchase 18 custom maintenance stands for their fleet of AW139s. All Metal has been working with Chevron North America’s Aircraft... Read more

Columbia Helicopters to diverisfy into military engine maintenance

Columbia Helicopters to diverisfy into military engine maintenance

23-May-2012Source: Columbia Helicopters

Seeing a growing business opportunity in military helicopter engine repair services, Columbia Helicopters has built upon its long-time relationship with engine manufacturer Honeywell International, and is in the process of opening a second test cell at its Aurora, Oregon, maintenance base. Under its new agreement with Honeywell, which was finalized in March, 2012, Columbia Helicopters is now... Read more

LockMart/Bristow will not bid for Australian AIR 9000 Phase 7 project

LockMart/Bristow will not bid for Australian AIR 9000 Phase 7 project

23-May-2012Source: Australian Aviation

Lockheed Martin has confirmed it is not bidding for the Australian Defence Force’s AIR 9000 Phase 7 Helicopter Aircrew Training System (HATS) project. (see full story)... Read more

FAA proposes new repair station regulations

FAA proposes new repair station regulations

23-May-2012Source: ARSA

On May 21, the FAA released a proposed rule that would bring significant regulatory changes to repair stations operating under 14 CFR part 145. “As with all proposed rules, it may create as many problems as it is trying to fix,” noted ARSA Executive Director Sarah MacLeod. “ARSA notes that there are proposals for permanent housing, satellite... Read more

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