Civil helicopters

Bristow Group more than triples its H175 orders and secures comprehensive support services agreement with Airbus Helicopters

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Bristow Group today raised its total firm orders for Airbus Helicopters’ H175 to 17, and also signed a comprehensive support services agreement for its new seven-metric- ton-category rotorcraft. H175 is the new name of the twin-engine EC175. Airbus Helicopters announced at the Heli-Expo 2015 helicopter industry trade show in Orlando, Florida, the renaming of its … Dowiedz się więcej

Bell Helicopter Introduces the new Bell 407GXP

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Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company (NYSE: TXT), introduced today (03.03)at Heli-Expo 2015 the new Bell 407GXP. The new aircraft incorporates the reliability and advanced technology of the Bell 407GX platform, and introduces performance improvement, payload increase and pilot workload reduction. “The Bell 407GXP enhances customer value with improvements in mission capability,” said Matt Hasik, … Dowiedz się więcej

Airbus Helicopters unveils its all-new H160 as the benchmark for medium-class rotorcraft

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In one of the industry’s most anticipated events, Airbus Helicopters (03.03) today presented its all-new H160, raising the standards for performance, cost effectiveness, passenger comfort and environmental impact to create the medium-class rotorcraft benchmark. As the first product introduced with the Airbus Helicopters corporate identity and its new numbering designation, this 5.5-6-ton-class rotorcraft’s nose-to-tail breakthroughs … Dowiedz się więcej

Japan Coast Guard receives EC225 for search and rescue and law enforcement missions

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Airbus Helicopters Japan has delivered an EC225 LP to the Japan Coast Guard (JCG), which was acquired as replacement for an aircraft that was destroyed during the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. This is the last of three EC225s ordered by JCG in July 2011; the earlier two having been delivered last year. With the … Dowiedz się więcej

Bell Helicopter Announces Sales to Qiqihar Kun Feng General Aviation Co.

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Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, (NYSE: TXT), today announced the purchase of two Bell 407GX and a letter of intent to purchase five Bell 505 aircraft by Qiqihar Kun Feng General Aviation Co., a subsidiary of Kun Feng Group, a agricultural holding company. “For many years Qiqihar Kun Feng has utilized leased helicopters in … Dowiedz się więcej

Bell 505’s Second Flight Test Vehicle Achieves First Flight

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Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company (NYSE: TXT), announced today the Bell 505 Jet Ranger X’s second flight test vehicle has successfully achieved its first flight. The Bell 505’s flight test vehicle one completed its first flight in November of last year, and the program has quickly progressed, performing additional flight tests and numerous practice … Dowiedz się więcej