16-Apr-24 - US Air Force 1st Helicopter Squadron (1st HS) based out of Joint Base Andrews (JBA), Maryland and in charge to provide priority airlift for national-level civil and military senior leadership in the National Capital Region celebrating its 80th anniversary #Andrews
02-Apr-24 - A Bell UH-1N Twin Huey helicopter assigned to the US Air Force’s 58th Special Operations Wing (SOW), 512th Rescue Squadron, has reached 20,000 flight hours, five times its original life expectancy. This is only the third Huey to reach this milestone #veteran
28-Dec-23 - The 54th Helicopter Squadron secures US Air Force Base Minot’s missile fields from above. Since 1993, the 54th HS has been based in North Dakota to support the 91st Missile Wing ICBM operations #NorthDakota
05-Dec-23 - Universal Avionics completes first test flight of interactive Flight Management System ( i-FMS) on a Bell 212 government-owned helicopter as part of a joint effort to improve flight management and navigation capabilities #FlightManagement
31-Aug-23 - An US Air Force Bell UH-1N helicopter assigned to the 37th Helicopter Squadron (37 HS) reportedly made an abrupt left turn at approximately 100 ft AGL, landed hard and rolled over at Cheyenne Airport, Wyoming. Only non-life threatening injuries have been reported #accident