Jet Aviation has added a Sikorsky S-76B helicopter to its US "Private Fleet" charter programme. Based at Teterboro, New York, the eight-seat, twin-engined machine will supplement Jet's private Gulfstream business jet fleet servicing the Boston to Washington corridor.
Source: Flight International
Airbus Helicopters and partner PHI Aviation will shortly begin route-proving trials with the former’s H160 medium-twin in the Gulf of Mexico.
Piasecki Aircraft has secured new work for its ‘Heliplex’ facility in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, signing a collaboration agreement with Columbia Helicopters to upgrade Model 107 tandem-rotor helicopters to a new more fuel-efficient standard.
US firm Sierra Nevada (SNC) has been awarded a $170 million contract to deliver two Rapcon-X surveillance aircraft to the Finnish Border Guard.
