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December 3, 2010
AgustaWestland has handed over the first of nine AW139s to Weststar Aviation Services. The helicopter will enter service...December 3, 2010
Brazil’s Atlas Taxi Aereo has finalized an agreement with JSC Russian Helicopters for two Mil...November 23, 2010
Bell Helicopter has sold two 429s to Chevron. Plans call for the helicopters to enter service in early 2011...November 10, 2010
The Integrated Aviation Consortium (IAC) has issued a five-year contract to Bristow Helicopters for offshore oil support in the UK North Sea. The deal, which carries a...October 22, 2010
Attorneys for Steve Yelton, the lone survivor of a January 2009 crash involving a Sikorsky...October 20, 2010
At NBAA on Tuesday, Sikorsky Aircraft finalized an order for one S-92 from Lider Taxi...October 6, 2010
Sikorsky S-92 operators have collectively gone over 250,000 flight hours since the model entered service in September 2004, according to the Stratford, Conn.-based...September 13, 2010
Under separate agreements totaling more than $1.3 billion, Bristow Group has secured a series of contracts to support offshore oil companies in the UK’s North Sea, Norway and...September 7, 2010
Malaysia’s Weststar Aviation Services has placed an order for nine AgustaWestland AW139s. The...September 2, 2010
Europe’s Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) has issued dual qualification for Frasca’s Eurocopter...September 1, 2010
FAA has approved Bristow Academy’s Part 141 night vision goggle (NVG) training program. Training will begin at...August 31, 2010
AgustaWestland has secured an order for 10 AW139s from PHI, the...August 26, 2010
The civilian rotorcraft market is expected to remain diverse with the bulk of all new deliveries arriving from mature production lines, according to a new report by Frost & Sullivan. The report says the industry witnessed unprecedented growth in the global sales of civil rotorcraft from 2004 through 2008. However, as 2008 ended, the...August 25, 2010
Appareo Systems has been included on the Inc. Magazine 500 – a compilation of the 500 fastest growing private companies in the country. Appareo comes in at number 159 on the list with a growth percentage of 1751.9...August 23, 2010
Cutting edge technology will be on show during this year’s Helitech, which takes place at Airport Cascais, near Estoril in Portugal from 5 to 7 October. Bose will be demonstrating its recently launched A20 Aviation Headset. The A20 boasts greater noise reduction capability—vital when cockpit noise levels can reach 105 dBA. Enhancing comfort has also been taken into consideration by using the...August 1, 2010
Lake Charles, La.-based Era Helicopters is planning to introduce a new search and rescue/EMS operation with Priority 1 Air Rescue. The...August 1, 2010
The 0/3481 Deepwater Horizon NOTAM encompasses a huge chunk of airspace that covers the coast lines of four states and has been put in place to protect fliers of all kinds of aerial vehicles and their passengers. There have been NOTAMs and even temporary flight restrictions (TFRs) in the gulf in past years, but nothing to compare with this one. The mother of all TFRs, if you will. NOTAMs aside, during a...August 1, 2010
Left to right Scott Tish, Randy Sharp, Fred Brisbois and Mark Mestre. Photo by Andrew D. Parker Speakers at “IFR for the VFR Pilot” during the Rotor & Wing 2010 Safety and Training Summit hammered home that helicopter operators should emphasize prevention in training pilots to avoid inadvertent instrument meteorological conditions (IIMC). But when VFR pilots suddenly find themselves in the...August 1, 2010
Quotes from Wednesday, June 9 Keynote speech from Randy Babbitt, FAA Administrator: On Safety: “Finding ways to improve pilot decision-making, better training, better access to helicopter simulators, adopting safety management practices and improving maintenance practice—all of these things put together add up to a safer operating environment.” “The safety record of this industry is...August 1, 2010
Quotes from Tuesday, June 8 Ernie Stephens, Rotor & Wing Editor-at-Large: “Rule number one: If you leave with a helicopter, bring a helicopter back.” “Until about a year ago, I was absolutely 100 percent against night vision goggles for single-pilot operation. I thought it was crazy, I thought it was suicidal and I would never do it. It was based on my experience back when I was a...
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