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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Bristow Goes Brazilian
The company will pay $174 million for a 42.5 percent stake in Lider Aviacao Holding, SA, which was founded as a taxi company more than 50... [read more]
May 4, 2009
Quad A Today
The annual Quad A convention begins today and runs through May 6. The event is held at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in...
February 20, 2009
South Africa Postpones Its First Aviation Expo
AIR Africa 2009, South Africa’s first indigenous aviation industry and trade show, has been postponed from April 22-24, 2009, to sometime in...
February 10, 2009
HAL Prepares to Export First Dhruvs
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) announced that it is ready to deliver the first five of seven Dhruv helicopters to the South American country...
January 27, 2009
New Helicopters En Route to Colombia
On Jan. 27, the government of Colombia announced it is days away from receiving 32 new helicopters for its military...
January 15, 2009
NBAA Reports the Passing of John H. Winant
In a press release issued yesterday, the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) announced that former association president, John H. Winant, died on Jan. 13 at his home in...
January 9, 2009
Eurocopter and Helibras to Build EC175s
In a two-part contract totaling $11.9 billion, Brazil and France have agreed to build 50 military transport helicopters and five submarines. On the aircraft side of...
November 10, 2008
U.S. Sends Four Sea Kings to Help Argentina
Pursuant to the loss of three Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King helicopters to a fire aboard an Argentine icebreaker in 2007, the U.S. Navy has delivered a pair of its own SH-3Hs to the South...
September 24, 2008
BHS Opts for Elite
The Brazilian Helicopter Service (BHS) performs a lot of offshore petroleum trips and has selected an Elite S623 simulator to both train its pilots and offer them currency training. The S623 is manufactured by Zurich-based Elite...
August 18, 2008
Brazilian, U.S. Firms to Service Helos
Brazilian-based Sierra Aeronáutica and U.S.-based Texas Aviation Services (TAS), formed a partnership to support Brazilian helicopter clients, unveiling it at LABACE in Brazil. The companies are trying to catch up with the...
August 14, 2008
NOTAR Failure Grounds Explorers
Specialist Aviation Services recalled all 18 of its MD Helicopters MD-902s from police and emergency medical service lessees while it investigated the control system failure. On Aug. 8, an SAS Explorer on lease to Great North Air Ambulance of Durham, England...
August 14, 2008
"Excellence" Nominations Sought
The Helicopter Assn International has mailed out nominations booklets for its 2009 “Salute to Excellence” awards, which are to be presented at at Heli-Expo 2009 in Anaheim, Calif., next February. The deadline for submitting nominations is Oct...
July 24, 2008
Colombia Orders Extended-Range Tanks
Helicopter Support Inc. has sold 12 extended-range helicopter fuel tanks to...
July 22, 2008
Bolivian President’s Helicopter Crashes
Four Venezuelan soldiers and one Bolivian soldier died during the weekend in an accident involving a helicopter used hours before by...
July 2, 2008
Industry Leaders to Meet on Crash Response
Industry leaders plan to meet in Montreal July 8 to discuss the ramifications of this week's midair collision of air ambulances in Arizona and other accidents. One area of concern is to how to inject into television and newspaper coverage the message that the...
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