US Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin Retired from Service in Alaska
Coast Guard Air Station (CGAS) Kodiak has retired its MH-65 Dolphin helicopter fleet after 36 years of service in Alaska. The station will now exclusively operate the Sikorsky MH-60T Jayhawk along the HC-130 Hercules27-Apr - #Alaska
Helicopter Express Acquires Erickson Fleet and Operations
Helicopter Express has acquired the aerial firefighting operations business unit and aircraft of Erickson. Erickson will continue to serve as an independent manufacturer and service provider for the S-6426-Apr - #firefighting
Blackcomb Helicopters Celebrating 35 Years
Founded in 1989 in Whistler, British Columbia, Blackcomb Helicopters now operates a fleet of twenty helicopters across seven hangars in Whistler, Pemberton, Squamish, Lillooet, Calgary, Terrace, and the newest addition, Boundary Bay26-Apr - #BritishColumbia
New K-MAX Helicopter for Black Tusk
Kaman delivered a second K-MAX crane helicopter to Black Tusk Helicopter Inc of Squamish, BC, Canada25-Apr - #Canada
Chinese GDAT to Lease 20 H175s Worldwide
Chinese sales and leasing company GDAT has placed an order for 10 (+10 options) Airbus H175 to complement the 50 H160 procured last year. The Irish new start-up finance company GD Helicopter Finance (GDHF) will be marketing these helicopters worldwide25-Apr - #H175
Airbus Racer Demonstrator First Flight
Racer, Airbus’s high-speed helicopter demonstrator for the European Research Clean Sky 2 project, completed its first flight in Marignane, France. With a new hybrid-electric eco-mode, it can pause one of the two Aneto-1X engines, thereby contributing to the reduction of CO2 emissions
25-Apr - #ecology
Nova Systems Selects Smith Myers for Coast Guard AW189
Nova Systems selected the Smith Myers Artemis mobile phone location and communications system for the new Irish Coast Guard AW189 maritime helicopters24-Apr - #artemis
Entrol EC155 Simulator for Air Greenland
The Spanish company Entrol has installed its H15 Flight Training Device (FTD) Level 3 simulator for the EC155 helicopter at the Air Greenland headquarters in Nuuk24-Apr - #Greenland
German Air Force Familiarizes with Chinook via Dutch Allies
The arrival of a Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) Boeing CH-47F Chinook at Holzdorf marks the beginning of the familiarization process for Luftwaffe crews with their forthcoming helicopter, slated to replace the CH-53G 23-Apr - #Chinook
