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Eurocopter, Lockheed Martin will team to pursue Army scout helicopter

Eurocopter, Lockheed Martin will team to pursue Army scout helicopter

4-May-2009Source: Eurocopter

EADS North America announced that it has assembled a world-class industry team comprised of Lockheed Martin and American Eurocopter that will offer a new armed scout helicopter solution to the U.S. Army — the Armed Scout 645.... Read more

Navair grounds six UH-1Y and one AH-1Z helicopters

Navair grounds six UH-1Y and one AH-1Z helicopters

2-May-2009Source: Aviation Week

Navair issues temporary grounding bulletin on six UH-1Y Hueys and one AH-1Z Cobra due to extensive damage to the main rotor gearbox on two of the new Hueys.... Read more

Vermont Army National Guard upgrades to UH-72A Lakota

Vermont Army National Guard upgrades to UH-72A Lakota

2-May-2009Source: WCAX

The Vermont Army National Guard rolled out their two new helicopters on Friday 1st May... Read more

Two-seater Hummel helicopter concept folds-up for easy storage

Two-seater Hummel helicopter concept folds-up for easy storage

1-May-2009

The Hummel is a two passenger lightweight helicopter concept that features a fully enclosed cabin and tandem ducted rotors which offer the same stability as a conventional helicopter with a tail rotor.... Read more

Scandinavian Safety Training Centre introduces Multiway HUET, MWH-6

Scandinavian Safety Training Centre introduces Multiway HUET, MWH-6

1-May-2009Source: Helicopters Magazine

Scandinavian Safety Training Centre introduces Multiway HUET, MWH-6, a new type of training device, which has been design for the underwater escape training of helicopter and fixed wing aircraft crew and passengers.... Read more

Sentara's Nightingale air rescue seeks financial aid

Sentara's Nightingale air rescue seeks financial aid

30-Apr-2009Source: Virginian-Pilot

Nightingale Regional Air Ambulance plans to buy a new helicopter and is seeking financial help from local governments, including those in northeastern North Carolina, where it flew more than 200 missions last year.... Read more

AgustaWestland seeks export buyers for AW159 'Lynx Wildcat'

AgustaWestland seeks export buyers for AW159 'Lynx Wildcat'

30-Apr-2009Source: Flightglobal

With the British armed forces’ first Lynx Wildcat utility helicopter to make its debut flight on 13 November, AgustaWestland is looking to secure its first export sale for the newly rebranded AW159... Read more

Australia confirms Army reluctance to accept MRH-90

Australia confirms Army reluctance to accept MRH-90

30-Apr-2009Source: Rotorhub

Australia’s Defence Materiel Organisation has confirmed that it is experiencing user push-back against the introduction of the Australian Aerospace-Eurocopter MRH-90 utility helicopter by the Australian Army.... Read more

French Military Orders Five More EC725s

French Military Orders Five More EC725s

30-Apr-2009Source: EADS

This new acquisition is part of the plan to revitalize the economy, which the French government introduced in December 2008. The five helicopters are scheduled for delivery between late 2010 and early 2012.... Read more

New details on Kaman SeaSprite financial settlement with Australia

New details on Kaman SeaSprite financial settlement with Australia

30-Apr-2009Source: Rotorhub

Australia has confirmed that the financial settlement with Kaman Aerospace allowing for transfer of the Royal Australian Navy’s eleven Super Seasprites back to the company was based on a bank guarantee rather than a cash payment.... Read more

AirEvac Lifeteam crews at Muscle Shoals base training to use NVG

AirEvac Lifeteam crews at Muscle Shoals base training to use NVG

29-Apr-2009Source: Times Daily

The training consisted of eight hours of classroom work and five hours of landing training with the goggles. FAA-approved instructors conducted the training, much of which took place in wooded areas in the western part of Lauderdale County.... Read more

Capital time to grow business, says UK operator

Capital time to grow business, says UK operator

27-Apr-2009Source: Rotorhub

Oxford Airport-based Capital Air Services is flying in the face of the current financial turbulence by expanding its business at a time when many in the industry are downsizing.... Read more

AgustaWestland Unveils TUHP-149 Helicopter To Meet The Turkish Utility Helicopter Programme

AgustaWestland Unveils TUHP-149 Helicopter To Meet The Turkish Utility Helicopter Programme

27-Apr-2009Source: AgustaWestland

AgustaWestland unveiled a full scale mock-up of the TUHP 149 helicopter at IDEF 2009 in Istanbul today. The TUHP 149 is the AgustaWestland candidate for the Turkish Utility Helicopter Programme (TUHP). It is a new generation 8.1 ton medium lift multi-role helicopter designed to meet the military requirements of Turkish end users.... Read more

Future Lynx renamed as AW159 Lynx Wildcat

Future Lynx renamed as AW159 Lynx Wildcat

25-Apr-2009Source: AgustaWestland

During a ceremony at AgustaWestland’s Yeovil facility today it was announced that the Future Lynx has been renamed the AW159, bringing it in line with the other products in the growing AgustaWestland range of commercial and military rotorcraft.... Read more

Council approves R44 purchase for Baton Rouge Police Department

Council approves R44 purchase for Baton Rouge Police Department

23-Apr-2009Source: The Advocate

The Metro Council on Wednesday unanimously approved the purchase of a helicopter for the Baton Rouge Police Dep.  Mayor-President Kip Holden told the council “We are by far the largest parish in this area that doesn’t have a helicopter”... Read more

US Air Force airmen, Marines work together to test-load helicopters

US Air Force airmen, Marines work together to test-load helicopters

23-Apr-2009Source: US Air Force

Playing a game of inches, a team of Airmen and Marines worked together April 20 to test-load two Marine helicopters into a C-5C Galaxy. The UH-1Y is used to carry Marines and supplies to forward operating locations. The AH-1Z is used to provide overwatch and show of force for coalition troops.... Read more

CEO of Bell Helicopter parent Textron says further asset sales unlikely

CEO of Bell Helicopter parent Textron says further asset sales unlikely

23-Apr-2009Source: Star Telegram

Textron Inc. CEO Lewis Campbell said Wednesday that it is “highly, highly improbable and unlikely” that the parent company of Bell Helicopter and Cessna Aircraft will have to sell any more of its businesses to generate cash and preserve liquidity.... Read more

US Army tests Autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System

US Army tests Autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System

23-Apr-2009Source: Wired

It’s called the Autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System. It mounts a powerful rifle onto highly stabilized turret, and fixes the package on board a Vigilante unmanned helicopter.... Read more

Cougar S92 crash book not done for 'quick buck,' author insists

Cougar S92 crash book not done for 'quick buck,' author insists

21-Apr-2009Source: CBC

The author of a newly published book about last month’s helicopter crash that killed 17 people off Newfoundland’s east coast is denying a widow’s criticism that the publication is capitalizing on other people’s tragedy.... Read more

Official Opening of New Hong Kong Heliport and Launch of Commercial Service of New AW 139s

Official Opening of New Hong Kong Heliport and Launch of Commercial Service of New AW 139s

21-Apr-2009Source: Sky Shuttle

Cheyenne Chan, CEO of Hong Kong helicopter airline Sky Shuttle Helicopters announced the opening of Hong Kong’s newest heliport, passenger lounge and the official entry into commercial service of the new Agusta Westland (AW) 139 helicopters.... Read more

AW139 Enters Service With Sky Shuttle Helicopters

AW139 Enters Service With Sky Shuttle Helicopters

18-Apr-2009Source: AgustaWestland

AgustaWestland is pleased to announce that the first two AW139s owned by Sky Shuttle Helicopters Limited of Hong Kong have entered operational service. An official ceremony celebrated the entry into service of the aircraft and the opening of a new helipad and passenger lounge at the Hong Kong Heliport, Hong Kong Macau Ferry Terminal.... Read more

DRS Technologies Receives $110M In Orders To Support U.S. Army Kiowa Warrior Mast-Mounted Sights

DRS Technologies Receives $110M In Orders To Support U.S. Army Kiowa Warrior Mast-Mounted Sights

18-Apr-2009Source: DRS

DRS Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has received nine delivery orders valued at over $110 million for spare components, repairs, and program services for Mast-Mounted Sights (MMS) on OH-58D Kiowa Warrior armed reconnaissance helicopters in the U.S. and on the battlefield.... Read more

EADS North America’s Lakota program manager to receive leadership award from the National Defense Industrial Association

EADS North America’s Lakota program manager to receive leadership award from the National Defense Industrial Association

16-Apr-2009Source: EADS

EADS North America’s Light Utility Helicopter Program Manager and Vice President, John Burke, has been selected to receive the 2009 Leadership Excellence Award from the National Defense Industrial Association’s (NDIA) Tennessee Valley Chapter.... Read more

Eurocopter and Helibras Announce the First Flight Simulator for helicopters in Latin America

Eurocopter and Helibras Announce the First Flight Simulator for helicopters in Latin America

15-Apr-2009Source: Eurocopter

Eurocopter and its Brazilian subsidiary Helibras are pleased to announce the introduction of the first flight simulator for helicopters in Latin America at the Latin America Aerospace & Defense (LAAD) show in Rio de Janeiro.... Read more

Blue Sky Network Chosen by NHV for Around-the-Clock Helicopter Location Monitoring and Comms

Blue Sky Network Chosen by NHV for Around-the-Clock Helicopter Location Monitoring and Comms

15-Apr-2009Source: Blue Sky Network

Belgian operator NHV has selected Blue Sky Network’s satellite tracking and communication solution for use aboard its work and transport helicopters, which include Dauphin, Explorer and Calibri models. These new technologies will help keep copter pilots and passengers safe and in constant communication with land and other air personnel as they work throughout the day... Read more

LifeFlight helicopters move to bases ringing Cuyahoga County, Ohio

LifeFlight helicopters move to bases ringing Cuyahoga County, Ohio

11-Apr-2009Source: Cleveland.com

Emergency rescue flights will no longer start their runs from MetroHealth Medical Center, as they have for nearly three decades.LifeFlight, the region’s largest critical care transport service, moved the last of its helicopters and crews to the Lorain County Regional Airport on Wednesday.... Read more

Columbia Helicopters Celebrates 40 Years of Tandem Rotors

Columbia Helicopters Celebrates 40 Years of Tandem Rotors

11-Apr-2009Source: Rotorhub

Columbia Helicopters, the world leader in heavy-lift helicopter operations, is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary in the operation of tandem-rotor helicopters. The company acquired its first three Boeing Vertol 107-II helicopters from Pan Am Airlines on April 10, 1969, followed by the purchase of four more from New York Airways in 1972.... Read more

Mid-Continent Instruments is 45 Years Old

Mid-Continent Instruments is 45 Years Old

2-Apr-2009Source: Vertical

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Monroe County approves $1M to fund TraumaStar for a further six months

Monroe County approves $1M to fund TraumaStar for a further six months

1-Apr-2009Source: KeysNet

The Monroe County Commission has appropriated more than $1 million from its Fine and Forfeiture Fund to fund another six months of TraumaStar, the Sheriff’s Office air ambulance.... Read more

South African Police scrap UAV purchase after buying six R44s

South African Police scrap UAV purchase after buying six R44s

1-Apr-2009Source: ITweb

The UAVs, which were sidelined for six Robinson R44 Raven II helicopters, worth more than R30 million, would have been purchased as part of the R650 million SAPS procurement drive for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.... Read more

Coast Guard HITRON squadron expands presence at NAS Jacksonville

Coast Guard HITRON squadron expands presence at NAS Jacksonville

1-Apr-2009Source: Bizjournals

The U.S. Coast Guard has added 150 officers and enlisted personnel to its Cecil Field operations, which includes a newly renovated 32,000-square-foot building.... Read more

Ornge purchases aviation assets from Canadian Helicopters Income Fund and enters into a 3 year contract with CHL

Ornge purchases aviation assets from Canadian Helicopters Income Fund and enters into a 3 year contract with CHL

31-Mar-2009Source: Canadian Helicopters

Ornge has purchased from Canadian Helicopters the current fleet of eleven medically equipped Sikorsky S-76 helicopters, and aviation assets including four hangars located in Ottawa, Moosonee, Kenora and London for an aggregate purchase price of Cdn$30 million.... Read more

Mitsui Bussan Aerospace Takes Delivery of the First AW139 for All Nippon Helicopter

Mitsui Bussan Aerospace Takes Delivery of the First AW139 for All Nippon Helicopter

31-Mar-2009Source: AgustaWestland

This aircraft is expected to be delivered by Mitsui Bussan to ANH in mid-2009. ANH will conduct electronic news gathering missions exclusively for Nippon Housou Kyoukai (NHK), Japan’s national broadcasting corporation and one of the most important in this field worldwide.... Read more

L-3 WESCAM EO/IR Imaging Turret Selected for North Sea SAR Missions

L-3 WESCAM EO/IR Imaging Turret Selected for North Sea SAR Missions

27-Mar-2009Source: Rotorhub

L-3 WESCAM announced that it has been selected to provide an MX-15 True HD electrooptical/infrared (EO/IR) imaging sensor to Eurocopter, in support of North Sea SAR missions... Read more

United Rotorcraft Solutions Delivers Refurbished Bell 206 to Helidosa

United Rotorcraft Solutions Delivers Refurbished Bell 206 to Helidosa

27-Mar-2009Source: Vertical

The 206 was sent to URS for a nose to tail upgrade. URS removed all the avionics and communications equipment along with the Stormscope, autopilot, split buss systems and over sized instrument panel. The ECU and bleed air heater were also removed.... Read more

UH-72A Lakota Surpasses 10,000 Flight-Hour Milestone in U.S. Army Service

UH-72A Lakota Surpasses 10,000 Flight-Hour Milestone in U.S. Army Service

26-Mar-2009Source: EADS

The U.S. Army’s growing fleet of UH-72A Lakota Light Utility Helicopters has passed the 10,000 flight-hour milestone, demonstrating the aircrafts’ mission performance and reliability in operations throughout the United States.... Read more

FAA to investigate Collier County Medflight complaint

FAA to investigate Collier County Medflight complaint

26-Mar-2009Source: Naples News

Federal Aviation Administration inspectors will be in Naples Thursday to investigate a complaint against Collier County’s Medflight which raises a series of flight safety concerns, according to the FAA.... Read more

USS Wasp flight deck qualifies for MV-22s

USS Wasp flight deck qualifies for MV-22s

24-Mar-2009Source: US Navy

The USS Wasp (LHD 1) Air Department completed their final MV-22 Osprey qualification March 18, certifying them to perform launch and recovery evolutions.... Read more

Bristow announces 10% workforce reduction

Bristow announces 10% workforce reduction

23-Mar-2009Source: Bristow Helicopters

Capital expenditures are being carefully evaluated and prioritized; Management salaries have been frozen; and Staffing levels and compensation structures are being reviewed to ensure that the Company is properly sized to meet customers’ needs.... Read more

PHI, Inc. Announces Results for the Year Ended December 31, 2008

PHI, Inc. Announces Results for the Year Ended December 31, 2008

17-Mar-2009Source: PHI

il and Gas segment revenues for the year ended December 31, 2008 were $324.1M, and operating income for the segment was $64.7M. Air Medical segment revenues were $174.7M, and segment operating income was $5.1M. Technical Services segment revenues were $10.6M and operating income for the segment was $3.7M.... Read more

AgustaWestland Receives Brazilian ANAC Approval for the AW109 Power Level D Full Flight Simulator

AgustaWestland Receives Brazilian ANAC Approval for the AW109 Power Level D Full Flight Simulator

17-Mar-2009Source: AgustaWestland

“The approval of the AW109 Power simulator by ANAC in Brazil is an important achievement and reflects our commitment to providing local authority approved training facilities and courses to our growing number of customers in Brazil” says John Ponsonby, AgustaWestland Senior Vice President Training... Read more

EADS North America begins deliveries of UH-72A Lakotas to the DC National Guard

EADS North America begins deliveries of UH-72A Lakotas to the DC National Guard

14-Mar-2009Source: EADS

EADS North America today delivered the initial three UH-72A Lakota Light Utility Helicopters to the District of Columbia National Guard, providing new-generation aircraft for a range of aviation support missions in the nation’s capital area.... Read more

1 confirmed and 16 presumed dead in Cougar S-92 tragedy

1 confirmed and 16 presumed dead in Cougar S-92 tragedy

14-Mar-2009Source: CTV

The search for 16 missing passengers of a helicopter which crashed off the coast of Newfoundland was called off Friday evening, because officials said “the likelihood of finding survivors is no longer there.”... Read more

Bond Offshore Helicopters EC225 "crashed and was not ditched" in the North Sea

Bond Offshore Helicopters EC225 "crashed and was not ditched" in the North Sea

10-Mar-2009Source: Press & Journal

Leaked report suggests cloudbase significantly lower than expected... Read more

Legislative panel endorses Maryland State Police control of medevac fleet

Legislative panel endorses Maryland State Police control of medevac fleet

10-Mar-2009Source: Baltimore Sun

Attempts to overhaul and possibly privatize the state’s emergency medical system appear likely to fail this year after a legislative panel’s full-throated endorsement of continued state police control of Maryland’s medical helicopter program.... Read more

Max-Viz EVS-1000 Installed In Swiss Air-Rescue AW109 Da Vinci Helicopters

Max-Viz EVS-1000 Installed In Swiss Air-Rescue AW109 Da Vinci Helicopters

10-Mar-2009Source: Aero-News

Max-Viz announced Monday the incorporation of 11 EVS-1000 infrared sensor systems onto the AgustaWestland Grand (AW109) helicopter. Initial deliveries have been completed to the Swiss air-rescue operator Rega.... Read more

Canada’s CH-146 Griffon and CH-147 Chinook helicopters reach initial operational capability

Canada’s CH-146 Griffon and CH-147 Chinook helicopters reach initial operational capability

10-Mar-2009Source: Rotorhub

On March 3, 2009, Lieutenant-General Angus Watt, Chief of the Air Staff, accompanied by Colonel Christopher Coates, the Commander of the Canadian Air Wing in Kandahar, announced that the CH-146 Griffon and CH-147 Chinook helicopters had reached initial operational capability (IOC).... Read more

RAF Chinook pilot wins Distinguished Flying Cross

RAF Chinook pilot wins Distinguished Flying Cross

8-Mar-2009Source: The Times

AN RAF pilot who saved the life of the Afghan governor of Helmand province by refusing to put his Chinook helicopter down even after a Taliban rocket took out part of its rotor blade has won the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC).... Read more

AgustaWestland Unveils the 'Da Vinci' Helicopter, developed from AW109 Grand

AgustaWestland Unveils the 'Da Vinci' Helicopter, developed from AW109 Grand

6-Mar-2009Source: AgustaWestland

The DA VINCI is a modern top-of-the-range light twin specifically developed from the highly successful AgustaWestland Grand to meet Swiss air-rescue operator REGA’s DA VINCI project requirements for a mountain rescue and air-ambulance helicopter... Read more

Pawan Hans to build and run network of helipads for 2010 Commonwealth Games

Pawan Hans to build and run network of helipads for 2010 Commonwealth Games

6-Mar-2009Source: Hindustan Times

State-owned Pawan Hans Helicopters Ltd (PHHL) would build the helipads and also operate helicopters from them. PHHL is also building a ‘heliport’ spread over 25 acres in Rohini, which would also come up before the Commonwealth Games.... Read more

CBS “Survivor” Contracts Aerial Filmworks to Provide Cineflex V14 HD System

CBS “Survivor” Contracts Aerial Filmworks to Provide Cineflex V14 HD System

3-Mar-2009Source: AerialFilmworks

The newest CBS season of “Survivor: Tocantins” used a Cineflex V14 HD from Aerial Filmworks. Aerial DP and camera operator Mark Hryma worked with the system for 7 weeks in the Highlands of Brazil.... Read more

PremiAir Announces Strategic Partnership with AAG Global

PremiAir Announces Strategic Partnership with AAG Global

3-Mar-2009Source: AMT

PremiAir is to become the first European Member Operator of Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation-owned AAG Global, the helicopter industry’s newly established worldwide network of international executive helicopter operators.... Read more

Med-Trans Corporation and Regional West / Air Link Partnership Ready to Take Flight

Med-Trans Corporation and Regional West / Air Link Partnership Ready to Take Flight

2-Mar-2009Source: Med-Trans

Med-Trans Corporation was recently selected by Regional West Medical Center, based in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, to assume operations of its Air Link Flight Program.  Med-Trans will assume operations for the flight program March 1, 2009, although the medical staffing, medical director and program management will not change.... Read more

Midlands Air Ambulance officially replaces County Air Ambulance

Midlands Air Ambulance officially replaces County Air Ambulance

2-Mar-2009Source: Midlands Air Ambulance

MIDLANDS AIR AMBULANCE has officially replaced County Air Ambulance on 2nd March, when volunteers and supporters gathered to formally unveil the new name at each of the three helicopter bases in Shropshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire.... Read more

Maryland May Lose 'Trooper' Medevac Program

Maryland May Lose 'Trooper' Medevac Program

1-Mar-2009Source: Baynet

Senate Bill 650, co-sponsored by Senators Picken and Astle, seeks to eliminate the current Maryland Emergency Medical Department helicopter program in favor of third party vendors.... Read more

Israel requests four more Apaches, options for more

Israel requests four more Apaches, options for more

1-Mar-2009Source: Flightglobal

The Israeli air force wants to increase its inventory of Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopters.... Read more

Royal Air Force SAR Force Commander changeover

Royal Air Force SAR Force Commander changeover

25-Feb-2009Source: Royal Air Force

Group Captain Jonathan Dixon has returned to take over as the RAF Search and Rescue Force Commander from Group Captain Steve Garden.... Read more

Sikorsky helps PHI Celebrate 60 Years in Industry

Sikorsky helps PHI Celebrate 60 Years in Industry

23-Feb-2009Source: Sikorsky

ANAHEIM, Calif., Feb. 23 — Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today celebrated the 60th anniversary of PHI, a longtime Sikorsky customer flying S-92(R) and S-76(R) helicopters, with a recognition ceremony at Heli-Expo. Sikorsky is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp... Read more

Bell 429 certification by May, deliveries to follow

Bell 429 certification by May, deliveries to follow

22-Feb-2009Source: Rotorhub

In a brief statement about future rotorcraft developments at the company during a press conference at Heli-Expo in Anaheim, California, CEO Giuseppe Orsi said the aircraft would fly in the coming months of 2009.... Read more

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