28-Jan-26 - With an official Sundown Ceremony and after 57 years of service, the U.S. Navy retired the TH-57 Sea Ranger trainer helicopter, a Bell 206 derivative, replacing it with the Leonardo TH-73A Thrasher based on the AW119Kx. #SeaRanger
19-Nov-25 - Bell Textron Prague and TEREM Holding Bulgaria signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) during European Rotors 2025 to provide maintenance support for six Bell 206 helicopters operated by the Bulgarian Air Force #Bulgaria
10-Aug-24 - Helicopter operator Helisul is providing aircraft transportation for the Gramado Film Festival, the most important and prestigious award ceremony in the Brazilian audiovisual sector, held in Rio Grande do Sul from August 9 to 17 #GramadoFestival
03-Oct-23 - Air ambulance operator Air Evac Lifeteam opened its 13th medical base in Illinois with a Bell 206 helicopter based out of the city of Decatur, Macon County #Illinois
26-Sep-23 - A Bell 206 helicopter, operated by Timberland Helicopters, assisted in the historic recovery of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission at the Utah desert’s Dugway Proving Ground #OSIRISREx
10-Aug-23 - Forty years ago, Richard “Dick” Harold Smith achieved a historic milestone with the first solo around-the-world helicopter flight using a Bell 206
17-May-22 - Air Evac Lifeteam, part of Global Medical Response Group, opened a new air ambulance base in Athens with a Bell 206 helicopter to serve Limestone County and surrounding regions in Northern Alabama #Alabama
13-Mar-22 - Able Aerospace in collaboration with Vertex Aerospace will continue its almost decade-long support of the US Navy TH-57 trainer helicopters fleet.
01-Nov-21 - US Army 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, as the incoming rotational aviation task force of the Atlantic Resolve Mission, and the US Area Support Team in Greece, met with Hellenic Army at Stefanovikeio #AtlanticResolve
20-Feb-21 - With a ceremony held at Fort Rucker the US Army retired the Bell TH-67A Creek as their basic trainer helicopter. Since 1993 over 25,000 American and foreign students were trained with the TH-67 #Creek
10-Aug-20 - The eight Arkansas Air Evac Lifeteam air medical bases, part of the Global Medical Response (GMR) network, in partnership with the American Red Cross start carrying blood products on board its helicopters #ambulance
17-Jul-20 - US Army 1st Battalion, 5th Aviation Regiment flew the OH-58C Kiowa helicopters for last time at Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) at Fort Polk, Louisiana. The Kiowas were replaced by the Airbus UH-72A Lakota
07-Jul-20 - Trakka delivered a surveillance solution with TrakkaCam TC-300 Multi-sensor Camera, TrakkaMap TM-100 Mission suite and TrakkaBeam A800 Searchlight for the Mexican Yucatan state Bell 429 and Colombian National Police Bell 206 helicopters #Trakka
