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Maverick EcoStars reach 60,000...
The Elusive, Renamed Acrohelipro
Norsk’s first S-92 logs 5,000th...
Sikorsky honors L.A. Fire Dept.
Ranger sees TAS as another...
CopterJobs makes recruitment a...
Maverick EcoStars reach 60,000 hrs and counting
American Eurocopter president and CEO Marc Paganini recognized aerial tour-operator Maverick Helicopters for logging 60,000 hours on its fleet of 27 EC 130s, the largest in the world.
During a ceremony yesterday afternoon at Heli-Expo Booth No. 631, Greg Rochna, CEO of Maverick Aviation Group, accepted Maverick’s 28th copy of the EC 130. Paganini said the EC 130 is an aircraft designed more
The Elusive, Renamed Acrohelipro
“People have been asking me, ‘Can you tell me where Acrohelipro is?’” Donald Jackson said Monday afternoon, right after making the official announcement that the Richmond, British Columbia-based helicopter MRO provider and modification specialist now lives under the Vector Aerospace umbrella.
Jackson, executive chairman of Vector Aerospace, said the name change is part of an international con more
Norsk’s first S-92 logs 5,000th hour
Norwegian operator Norsk Helikopter yesterday celebrated the 5,000th fleet hour of its Sikorsky S-92(R) (Serial No. 11) helicopter. The aircraft reached the milestone on February 5, a little more than two months after the Norsk S-92 fleet reached its 20,000th flight hour.
Norsk owns and operates six S-92 helicopters and in 2006 became the first offshore oil operator in the North Sea to more
Sikorsky honors L.A. Fire Dept.
In a ceremony yesterday at the Sikorsky booth (No. 1641), Sergei Sikorsky presented four senior members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department with Sikorsky’s Winged S service award to mark the 50th anniversary of the L.A. County’s aerial firefighting operations. He particularly praised the firefighters’ last year of service dealing with a series of catastrophic blazes in greater Los Angeles.more
Ranger sees TAS as another success story in the making
Ranger Aerospace, the privately held investment and management holding company with offices adjacent to Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, attracted the notice of the helicopter community when it sold Keystone Helicopters to Sikorsky in 2005 after fortifying the West Chester, Pa. operation from less than $50 million in revenue to more than $125 million while tripling employment and profits.
Ste more
CopterJobs makes recruitment a click away for helicopter workers
Debi Irby always had a tough time finding new employees when she was chief pilot for various helicopter operators. The inquiries that did come to her attention were either random résumés from unqualified people or former military pilots asking how they could get into the civil market. It didn’t help that even within the aviation industry, helicopter people were thought of as a wild bunch, she said more
This helo cockpit takes a backseat to no bizjet
Visiting Honeywell’s new corporate AW139 medium-twin helicopter at the AgustaWestland booth (No. 3039) is a great way to see the clean and uncluttered instrument panel offered by Honeywell’s Primus Epic avionics suite.
The avionics installation includes four 8- by 10-inch LCDs plus a Sagem ICDS-10 multifunction display mounted in the center of the instrument panel. Honeywell’s AW139 pi more
Sikorsky sells a dozen to PHI in the gathering hunt for oil
PHI has already logged 23,000 hours on its fleet of nine Sikorsky S-92s, and on Monday at Heli-Expo it signed an options contract for six more of the model to be delivered in 2009 and 2010, as well as six copies of the S-76C++ to support deepwater oil industry missions in the Gulf of Mexico. Sikorsky’s Stephen Estill, v-p and chief marketing officer, called the signing ceremony “a very special day more
First the U.S. Transcon, now 'round the world
Scott Kasprowicz (center), the AgustaWestland A109S Grand owner-pilot who broke the U.S. transcontinental record a week and a half ago, announced his next record attempt yesterday here at Heli-Expo–an around-the-world flight in his AgustaWestland helicopter, N1US.
The current record for the 19,865-nm world flight in a helicopter is 17 days, which Kasprowicz intends to shatter when he la more
Bell buys Skybooks software company
Bell Helicopter expanded its customer-support capabilities with the acquisition of maintenance-tracking software company Skybooks in mid-January. Skybooks is an online system that tracks maintenance, flight operations, expenses and pilot currency and stores archived aircraft logbooks as well as maintains electronic logbook records.
While Skybooks is useful for the helicopter industry, more