29-Feb-24 - Niagara Helicopters, a tourism sightseeing company based in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada ordered six new Airbus H130s during Heli-Expo 2024 #NiagaraFalls
07-Feb-23 - Air ambulance Airlift 5, operated by Air Methods in Weslaco, Texas added the LUCAS chest compression system to their EC130 helicopter to providing life saving for cardiac arrest patients #LUCAS
07-Dec-22 - United Arab Emirates (UAE) sightseeing helicopter tour operator Falcon Aviation Services (FAS) upgrades fleet from EC130B4 with five Airbus H130 / EC130T2 #Emirates
14-Nov-22 - Heli-One, CHC MRO service, now provides H130 Tail Gear Box (TGB) maintenance, repair and overhaul at its base at Delta, British Columbia, Canada #Canada
29-Aug-22 - Air ambulance operator LifeNet of New York, part of Air Methods, upgrading fleet with 6 Airbus EC130, 2 EC135, and an EC145. This is in addition to a pre-existing EC145 and Pilatus 12 airplane. #NewYork
08-Jul-22 - Lutheran Air ambulance from the Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana reached the 10,000 patient flights milestone. Operated by Air Methods H130 helicopters from Portland Municipal Airport, Wabash Municipal Airport and Starke County Airport #patients
13-Dec-21 - By next year all new Airbus H130 helicopters will come equipped with a new touchscreen flight display G500TXi, com/nav radio GTN650Xi, electronic standby instrument ESI 500, iPad mount, USB plugs
27-Oct-21 - DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan adds fully-dedicated helicopter to serve critically ill patients. PANDA One is an Airbus EC130T2/H130 based out of Flint’s Bishop Airport and operated by Air Methods #PandaOne
21-May-21 - Astronics Max-Viz 1200 and 1400 enhanced vision systems (EVS) received approval from the FAA, Canada and EASA for installation on the Airbus EC130B4 and EC130T2 / H130 helicopters #EVS
22-Jan-21 - Airbus unveiled its H130 helicopter Flightlab demonstrator to pursue the testing of hybrid and electric propulsion technologies. In 2022 will test ergonomic design of intuitive pilot flight controls intended to reduce pilot workload #flightlab
16-Dec-19 - Hospital Wing, a non-profit air ambulance operating in West Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Alabama, and Kentucky, started carrying packed red blood cells (PRBCs) and liquid plasma (LP) in their EC130/H130 helicopters #blood
02-Nov-19 - Airbus to showcase H130/EC130T2 (operated by Tennessee’ Hospital Wing) and an H145/EC145T2 (from Boston Med Flight) air ambulances at the Air Medical Transport Conference AMTC 2019, November 4-6, Atlanta GWCC, Georgia #AMTC2019
07-Aug-19 - Scenic took delivery of the Scenic Eclipse, the World’s First Discovery Yacht™. The new luxury ship completed the final tests and trials of her landing deck and hangar with the H130 helicopter #yacht