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Lawsuit by LAPD helicopter pilot goes to jury

Lawsuit by LAPD helicopter pilot goes to jury

11-Aug-2009Source: LA Daily News

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Thailand requsts three UH-60L Black Hawks

Thailand requsts three UH-60L Black Hawks

11-Aug-2009Source: http://www.dsca.mil/pressreleases/36-b/2009/Thailand_09-49.pdf

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Egypt requests six CH-47D Chinooks

Egypt requests six CH-47D Chinooks

11-Aug-2009Source: DSCA

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Northrop Grumman-Developed U.S. Navy Unmanned Fire Scout Nears Operational Evaluation

Northrop Grumman-Developed U.S. Navy Unmanned Fire Scout Nears Operational Evaluation

11-Aug-2009Source: Northrop Grumman

The Northrop Grumman Corporation-developedMQ-8B Fire Scout VTUAV recently completed flight tests aboard the USS McInerney. This is part of a series of shipboard evaluations leading to Operational Evaluation (OpEval) scheduled for this fall.... Read more

Proposed heliport amid Streeterville high-rises now up to state

Proposed heliport amid Streeterville high-rises now up to state

11-Aug-2009Source: Chicago Tribune

Experts from the Illinois Department of Transportation will pore over stacks of statistics and tales of medical emergencies in trying to decide whether a heliport proposed for the new Lurie Children’s Hospital in Streeterville can be built.... Read more

PHI, Inc. Announces Results for the Second Quarter Ended June 30, 2009

PHI, Inc. Announces Results for the Second Quarter Ended June 30, 2009

11-Aug-2009Source: PHI

Flight hours for the quarter ended June 30, 2009 were 39,246, compared to 39,630 for the quarter ended June 30, 2008.... Read more

Vector Aerospace announces transition of Breeze Eastern product support

Vector Aerospace announces transition of Breeze Eastern product support

11-Aug-2009Source: Vertical

Vector Aerospace Corporation wishes to inform its customers and affected operators that they once again have a Canadian support alternative for Breeze Eastern Corporation products.... Read more

Wichita Falls Air Evac Lifeteam base opens

Wichita Falls Air Evac Lifeteam base opens

11-Aug-2009Source: Times Record News

The Wichita Falls Air Evac Lifeteam base opened to the public Saturday morning, giving tours of the newly renovated and more spacious facility.... Read more

AeroComputers Completes Integration With Gyrocam HDIR Sensor

AeroComputers Completes Integration With Gyrocam HDIR Sensor

11-Aug-2009Source: AeroComputers

AeroComputers Inc. is pleased to announce the successful completion of integration between the UC-5100 Digital Mapping System and the HD/IR sensor payload.  This integration provides advanced mapping, geopointing and video switching capabilities.... Read more

Dirgantara Indonesia to supply 10 Bell 412s to military

Dirgantara Indonesia to supply 10 Bell 412s to military

11-Aug-2009Source: Jakarta Post

The Indonesian Military has ordered 6 Bell 412 helicopters while the National Search and Rescue Agency [Basarnas] ordered four... Read more

Austrian OH-58 helicopters decommissioned after 40 years of service

Austrian OH-58 helicopters decommissioned after 40 years of service

11-Aug-2009Source: DefPro

The Austrian Ministry of Defence announced that a “Jet Ranger” helicopter has made the last flight of this helicopter type with the Austrian Army (Bundesheer) at the Hinterstoisser military airfield near Zeltweg, Austria. This marks the conclusion of 40 years of service and some 100,000 flight hours with the Austrian Army.... Read more

Italian Navy Takes Delivery Of Its 21st AW101 Helicopter

Italian Navy Takes Delivery Of Its 21st AW101 Helicopter

10-Aug-2009Source: AgustaWestland

This Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW)/Anti-Surface Warfare (ASuW) configured aircraft is the first unit of the last AW101 batch for the service which has committed to a total of 24 AW101s.... Read more

South Korea dithers over Apaches

South Korea dithers over Apaches

10-Aug-2009Source: UPI

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Maryland State Police unit awarded 'rescue of the year' for lifesaving mission with the AS365 Dauphin

Maryland State Police unit awarded 'rescue of the year' for lifesaving mission with the AS365 Dauphin

7-Aug-2009Source: American Eurocopter

A Maryland State Police Aviation Command crew has been honored for a daring December 2008 rescue which utilized American Eurocopter’s Dauphin AS365 when a broken water main left several vehicles trapped in three-to-four feet of swiftly-flowing water.... Read more

National Naval Aviation Museum at Pensacola accepts SH-60B Seahawk

National Naval Aviation Museum at Pensacola accepts SH-60B Seahawk

7-Aug-2009Source: http://www.pnj.com/article/20090731/NEWS01/907310335

A Navy helicopter thumped low over Pensacola on Wednesday, making its final flight before landing in the National Naval Aviation Museum’s parking lot to take its place in history.  At a ceremony Thursday morning, the museum officially unveiled “Venom 500” an SH-60B Seahawk helicopter that has been in continuous duty with the Navy since 1986.... Read more

A Royal thank you for Army helicopter crews

A Royal thank you for Army helicopter crews

6-Aug-2009Source: Bury Free Press

The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall were at the airfield to present operational service medals to more than 100 soldiers from 4 Regiment Army Air Corps (AAC).... Read more

Tigre flies with uprated engines

Tigre flies with uprated engines

5-Aug-2009Source: Rotorhub

The MTR390-E (Enhanced) engine will equip the French-Spanish HAD variant, as well as the German UHT variant (for the last 16 UHTs).... Read more

HAL delivers first four Cheetal helicopters

HAL delivers first four Cheetal helicopters

4-Aug-2009Source: Flightglobal

A re-engineered version of HAL’s Cheetah, the Turbomeca TM333-2M2-powered aircraft delivers increased range, endurance and payload... Read more

Australia weighs PPP vs traditional purchasing for new helo training fleet

Australia weighs PPP vs traditional purchasing for new helo training fleet

4-Aug-2009Source: Rotorhub

Australia is still to make decisions on whether it uses traditional capital acquisition or public private partnership (PPP) methods to finance its planned Project Air 9000 phase 7 helicopter training system requirement.... Read more

Kansas City Lawyer Addresses Helicopter Crash Litigation at National Lawyers' Convention

Kansas City Lawyer Addresses Helicopter Crash Litigation at National Lawyers' Convention

3-Aug-2009Source: Robb & Robb

Gary C. Robb of Kansas City’s Robb & Robb, LLC delivered an address on Monday, July 27, 2009 on “Litigating a Helicopter Crash Case” to the Aviation Law Section at the Annual Convention of the American Association for Justice (AAJ), held in San Francisco, California.... Read more

Police Aviation News – August 2009 edition

Police Aviation News – August 2009 edition

1-Aug-2009Source: Police Aviation News

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Kazan Helicopter Plant hosts mayor of Istanbul

Kazan Helicopter Plant hosts mayor of Istanbul

31-Jul-2009Source: Kazan

July, 24 was held the official visit of two important visitors on the Kazan helicopter plant. The Interest to manufacture of the world famous helicopters of mark “Mi” and ANSAT was shown by the mayor of the city of Kazan Ilsur Metshin and the mayor of Istanbul Kadir Topbas.... Read more

Uttarakhand Chief Minister orders transfer of land for use as helipad

Uttarakhand Chief Minister orders transfer of land for use as helipad

31-Jul-2009Source: PTI

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank today ordered transferring of 21 hectares land in Joshimath area to Chamoli district administration for the construction of a helipad, stadium and an auditorium.... Read more

Cayman Islands Police EC135 controversy rumbles on

Cayman Islands Police EC135 controversy rumbles on

31-Jul-2009Source: Cay Compass

Governor Stuart Jack asked the Auditor General Dan Duguay in September to undertake an investigation into the purchase of the helicopter. Mr. Duguay found that there was no clear documentation of what the required operational capabilities of the helicopter should be, and limited communication between the police and the Civil Aviation Authority about the helicopter.... Read more

Heavy Lift Helicopter Community Celebrates Propulsion First

Heavy Lift Helicopter Community Celebrates Propulsion First

31-Jul-2009Source: Rotorhub

The CH-53K’s engine, the GE38, took center stage at a ceremony held at General Electric in Lynn, Mass., last week.... Read more

Pilot My-Cast℠ by Garmin Coming to the iPhone™ and iPod Touch® for US, Canadian subscribers

Pilot My-Cast℠ by Garmin Coming to the iPhone™ and iPod Touch® for US, Canadian subscribers

31-Jul-2009Source: Garmin

iPhone and iPod Touch users can soon download Pilot My-Cast by Garmin, a premier cell phone application that provides critical aviation weather data, flight planning and flight filing services to U.S. and Canadian based subscribers.... Read more

Canadian engine flies Chinese attack helicopter

Canadian engine flies Chinese attack helicopter

31-Jul-2009Source: Canada.com

China’s newest attack helicopter is powered by Canadian-built engines, a development military analysts say could spark a backlash against Canada’s aerospace industry from U.S. lawmakers concerned about technology being transferred into the wrong hands.... Read more

DART Announces ANAC Approval of Apical’s AS350 Cable Cutters Kit

DART Announces ANAC Approval of Apical’s AS350 Cable Cutters Kit

31-Jul-2009Source: Vertical

DART Helicopter Services announces that their subsidiary partner Apical Industries has received ANAC approval for their AS350 Cable Cutters Kit in Brazil. Transport Canada, FAA and EASA approvals have been previously received.... Read more

Carter Celebrates 15th Anniversary

Carter Celebrates 15th Anniversary

31-Jul-2009Source: Carter

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