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Autonomous Black Hawk for Rapid Response to Wildfires

01-Mar-24 - Rain and Sikorsky demonstrate early detection and rapid response to wildfires with an autonomous Black Hawk helicopter #firefighting

Bell 412EPX for Southern California County Sheriffs

27-Feb-24 - Bell delivers new Subaru/Bell 412EPX helicopters to Southern California County Sheriff Departments (two for San Bernardino and another for San Diego) during Heli-Expo 2024 #Bell412EPX

Maryland Natural Resources Police New Helicopter

27-Feb-24 - Maryland Department of Natural Resources (MD DNR) new Airbus H125 helicopter is fitted with CNC Technologies Full Mission Suite installed by Metro Aviation #Maryland

New Mission Suite for Fontana PD AS350B2 Helicopter

26-Feb-24 - The City of Fontana Police Department in California upgraded its AS350B2 helicopter with CNC mission suite equipment #Fontana

Multi-Year Service, Support and Training Contracts for CNC

23-Feb-24 - CNC Technologies obtained multi-year service, support, and training (SST) agreements with Texas DPS, Ohio Highway Patrol and the police departments of Massachusetts, Dallas and Ontario, California #contracts

Bell Corporate and Firefighting Helicopters at Heli-Expo 2024

23-Feb-24 - Bell to showcase corporate and firefighting-configured Bell 407GXi, 412EPX, 429 and 505 helicopters at Heli-Expo 2024 #HeliExpo2024

Mission Suite for Florida Fish and Wildlife Helicopters

22-Feb-24 - CNC Technologies provides full mission suite Integrations of two Bell 505 helicopters for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission including L3/Wescam MX10 imager, Shotover ARS 750 moving map system, MacroBlue monitors and Trakka TLX searchlight #wildlife

CNC Comms for Broward County Sheriff New Helicopters

21-Feb-24 - Florida’s Broward County Sheriff’s Office (BSO) has acquired two Airbus H145 and an H125 helicopters for search and rescue, as well as law enforcement missions. They will be completed by Metro Aviation with CNC Technologies full mission suite equipment #Florida

Virtual Reality Flight Simulator for H125 in California

01-Feb-24 - Swiss Loft Dynamics has opened the first virtual reality flight simulation hub in North America. An Airbus H125 simulator, to be used by the Los Angeles Police Department, is now located at the Santa Monica Municipal Airport (KSMO) #VirtualReality

Lima+ Black Hawk for Aerial Utility Missions

20-Nov-23 - Black Widow Helicopters and XP Services offering former US Army Black Hawks refurbished and upgraded with the latest technology and customized configurations in the new Lima+ #Lima+

Archer Midnight Takes Flight

25-Oct-23 - Archer’s electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, Midnight, completed its first flight. The program began in 2019, including two years of full-scale flight testing of Archer’s Maker small-scale demonstrator. #Midnight

Funding Secured for Archer’s Manufacturing Facility in Georgia

14-Oct-23 - Archer Aviation closes previously-announced financing and development agreements to complete world’s highest-volume eVTOL aircraft manufacturing facility in Covington, Georgia #Georgia

Rain and Uncrewed Black Hawk in Aerial Wildland Firefighting

14-Oct-23 - Rain and Sikorsky are collaborating in advance rapid response capabilities for aerial wildland firefighting and will demonstrate how an uncrewed Black Hawk helicopter with Rain’s Wildfire Mission Autonomy System could respond rapidly to suppress incipient wildfires #firefighting

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