French Navy Receives Its Fourth H160 Interim Helicopter, 24-Sep-23 Babcock delivered the fourth of six Airbus H160 FI maritime search and rescue (SAR) interim helicopter to the French Navy |
Airbus Unveils PioneerLab Flying Laboratory Helicopter, 25-Sep-23 Airbus unveils PioneerLab, its new twin-engine flying laboratory based on the H145 but with an hybrid electric propulsion system and aerodynamic improvements |
Coptersafety’s Busy Summer 2023, 22-Sep-23 Coptersafety, a helicopter training provider, offers a mission update with the latest news from its Helsinki, Finland base |
Black Hawk in Rescue Near Gold King Creek, Alaska, 23-Sep-23 A Sikorsky HH-60L Black Hawk medevac helicopter from the 1-52 General Support Aviation Battalion (1-52 GSAB), 16th Combat Aviation Brigade (16th CAB) completed an aeromedical evacuation of a hunter near Gold King Creek, Alaska |
MD Helicopters Refurbished Parts from Able Aerospace, 26-Sep-23 MD Helicopters (MDH) collaborates with Able Aerospace for parts refurbishment and reduced costs for customers |
TrakkaBeam System for Pinal County Sheriff’s Huey, 23-Sep-23 Pinal County Sheriff’s UH-1 Huey search-and-rescue helicopter in Arizona has been outfitted with a TrakkaBeam TLXc. This system includes a High-Intensity Search Light (HISL) and features close-range camera-based situational awareness with electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) capabilities |
Timberland Bell 206 in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission, 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 |
Helicopter Institute Awarded USN IFT-R COPTR Contract, 26-Sep-23 Helicopter Institute Inc (HII) at Fort Worth, Texas awarded the US Navy Initial Flight Training Rotary (IFT-R) contract using Bell 206. The Contractor Only Pilot Training – Rotary (COPTR) will support the Naval Air Training Command (NATC) in their existing helicopter training programs. |
Poland Minister of Defense Visits Boeing Apache Site, 27-Sep-23 Poland’s Minister of Defense, Mariusz Błaszczak, visited the Boeing Mesa site in Arizona, where the 96 AH-64E helicopters ordered for the Polish Army are being built |
South Dakota Air Ambulance Carrying Life-Saving Whole Blood, 27-Sep-23 South Dakota’ Black Hills Life Flight helicopters now carries life-saving whole blood, the first community-based air ambulance service in the state with this capability |