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BFGoodrich Avionics Systems' GH-3000 flat-panel electronic standby-instrument system has been certificated in the Gulfstream IV and V, Raytheon Hawker 800XP, and the Eurocopter AS365N2. Source: Flight International
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Air Methods equips
Air Methods of Colorado has received contracts from the UK's Police Aviation Services (PAS) and Papillon Grand Canyon Helicopters in the USA for multi-function interiors for installation in Boeing MD Explorers. Source: Flight International
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Light twin, right price
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC When Bell introduced the Model 407 light single-turbine helicopter it was essentially competing with itself, or rather with the longevity of its popular Model 206 JetRanger/LongRanger family. With the new Model 427 light twin, the company is breaking new ground, and competing with helicopters from established manufacturers. ...
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Eurocopter delivers Super Puma for North Sea
Eurocopter has delivered an AS.332C-L1 Super Puma to British International Helicopters (BHI) at Aberdeen in Scotland. The machine, which has been converted to the stretched L1 configuration by Eurocopter, was originally built as a "C" model. The Super Puma is destined for offshore work in the North Sea oil support ...
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Sikorsky signs
Sikorsky has signed memoranda of co-operation with three Taiwanese manufacturers, as part of an offset agreement for S-70 helicopters. Chengfeng Machinery, Ta-Yih and Topkey will each be contracted to supply structural, landing-gear and lighting components. Source: Flight International
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Wayfarer grows
White Plains, New York-based Wayfarer Aviation has added a Gulfstream III business jet and SikorskyS-76 corporate helicopter to its managed-aircraft fleet. Source: Flight International
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Helibras sales up
Brazilian helicopter manufacturer Helibras sold 30 aircraft in 1997, worth real 50 million ($45 million), reports Gazeta Merchantil. Itajuba-based Helibras licence-assembles Eurocopter AS350/355s and AS365s and plans to introduce the EC120 light turbine-single and EC135 light twin to the Brazilian market by 1999. Source: Flight International
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PZL-Swidnik upgrades SW-4 prototype with flight-control system
Polish helicopter manufacturer PZL-Swidnik is fitting a hydraulic flight-control system from French manufacturer SAMM to its third SW-4 light-helicopter prototype. The four/five-seat helicopter, powered by a single 335kW (450shp) Allison 250-C20R/2 turboshaft has undergone 70h of flight testing since it was first flown on 26 October, 1996, and is ...
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Japan takes delivery of the first Colibri
The first Eurocopter EC120B Colibri light helicopter was delivered on 23 January to Japan's Nozaki, with Eurocopter claiming orders for "more than 100" aircraft in the 11 months since marketing began. USFederal Aviation Administration certification of the five-seat Colibri is imminent, the helicopter being one of the first cleared ...
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Eurocopter predicts that Asian crisis will bring order cancellations
Eurocopter president Jean-Francois Bigay is forecasting cancellations and order delays as a result of the continuing economic crisis in Asia. Orders for 15 civil helicopters from South Korea and Thailand have already been put on ice. The warning came as the Franco-German company announced that, in 1997, it achieved ...
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Agusta power
Peter Gray/CASCINA COSTA DE SAMARATE Although it has been said before, the statement that "if it looks good, it flies good" certainly applies to the Agusta A109 - and particularly to the Power version. The outside shell has changed little since the first-prototype days of 1971, but as I ...
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Air Methods eyes EMS franchises
Emergency-medical-service specialist Air Methods is discussing establishing franchise operations in Israel and Turkey. The US company already has a franchise partner, Flamingo Unimed Air Taxi Aereo, in Brazil. Air Methods is not predicting when the Israeli and Turkish medical-transport programmes could get under way, but says that discussions are ...
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Eurocopter delivers AS365 to Slovakia
Eurocopter has made its first helicopter delivery to Slovakia, after identifying a potential market for about 20 sales in the East European country. The company has handed over one AS365 Dauphin to Slovakian trade organisation Martimex. The helicopter has been bought by power company Slovenske Elektrarny. The Slovakian media ...
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Boeing and Elbit join to rescue Polish Huzar project
In a deal brokered in Warsaw in the first week of January, the rival bidders for Poland's $600 million PZL-Swidnik Huzar helicopter, Boeing and Elbit, have agreed to participate jointly in the programme, a move aimed at breeching a political impasse. Sources in Israel and Poland confirm that Elbit ...
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Rotary Revolution
Russian helicopter design bureaux Kamov and Mil are attempting to pull together their respective associated manufacturing plants. Mil, and the Ulan-Ude, Rostov, and Kazan production sites are planning to form Mil Helicopters. Kamov, meanwhile, is in discussions with the Arseneyev and Kumer-Tau factories to establish a joint enterprise. Source: ...
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Air Methods flies flag
Air Methods has signed a three-year contract to provide helicopter medical-transport services for Arizona's Flagstaff Medical Center. Services will begin in February with a Bell 206L-3, until replaced by a 407, with a second helicopter available when needed. Source: Flight International
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US makers can offer helicopters to Turkey
US makers can offer helicopters to Turkey The Clinton Administration is to allow US helicopter makers to bid for a contract potentially worth $3 billion to supply attack helicopters to Turkey. Approving the bids, US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says: "We seek to support this important NATO ...
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Forecasts 98': General aviation
Full-year figures are not yet in, but 1997 appears to have been a good one for the general-aviation (GA) industry. Sales are at record levels - in dollars if not in aircraft - buoyed by surging business-jet deliveries and resurgent piston-single production. Even helicopter sales are up. The stage is ...
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Sikorsky sees S-76 fractional-ownership market emerging
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Sikorsky believes that at least one fractional-ownership programme using its S-76 helicopter will be launched in early 1998. Interest in helicopter fractional-ownership "has exploded", says director, commercial programmes, Mike Moran, and the company is talking to "several" potential operators. Richard Santulli, chairman of Executive Jet ...
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Bogus parts kill
A New Zealand court has convicted aircraft parts trader James Gedson of the manslaughter of two helicopter pilots who died when their Robinson R22 crashed in October 1995 following tail-rotor failure. This is believed to be the world's first successful homicide prosecution for knowingly supplying "bogus parts". The failed rotor ...