February 26, 2008

HeliWagon to load ’em up, move ’em out

By Jennifer Harrington

Spec-Ops Aviation (Booth No. 3158) has introduced the HeliWagon, an electric landing pad and transport system designed to move light to medium skid aircraft. The wheel device serves as a landing surface and can be relocated, for example, to a fueling site eliminating the need to land near fuel pumps.

Spec-Ops partnered with Omnex Controls to supply the wireless remote control system tha more

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NVG-compatible LED Displays Coming

Sandel Avionics (Booth No. 2441) has partnered with Euless, Texas-based Aero Dynamix (Booth No. 2641) to design night-vision-goggle-compatible versions of Sandel’s LED retrofit displays. The companies have designed the displays, which feature 200-pixel-per-inch screens and have a claimed mean operating life of more than 10,000 hours between failures, for both military and commercial purposes. The more

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Texas Aviation Certified for Brazil

Texas Aviation Services (TAS) said it has been certified by Brazil’s Agencia Nacional de Aviação Civil (ANAC) as a repair station for Brazilian-registered rotorcraft.

TAS, exhibiting this week at Heli-Expo Booth No. 3819, said the repair certification license makes it one of “a very few” independently owned U.S. helicopter customization and completion centers to meet ANAC authorization more

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Amstat Adds MD Helicopter Data

Market research products and services specialist Amstat (Booth No. 3931) announced the addition of the the MD Helicopters 500E, 520N, 530FF, 600N and 900 to its Amstat Helicopter Service.

The service provides regularly updated helicopter owner and operator contacts, detailed transaction activity by aircraft and market (including finance details) and verified lists of helicopters for sal more

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Rotortech Selects Av-Base Mx Software

Rotortech Services (Booth No. 2037) selected Av-Base’s WinAir software to help manage maintenance and inventory at its Palm Beach, Fla. helicopter service center. Rotortech said the software will help its technicians better track customer helicopter maintenance needs. A Part 145 repair station, Rotortech is factory-authorized to maintain the Eurocopter AS 350, AS 355, EC 120, EC 130 and EC 135; MD more

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New engines from old on Honeywell exhibit

By Harry Weisberger

Among the turbine engine programs Honeywell is featuring at Booth No. 2137 this week are a completely factory-remanufactured version of the venerable T53 that powered the Huey series and the brand-new HTS900 turboshaft for the Army Bell ARH-70A armed reconnaissance helicopter.

Phoenix-based Honeywell Engines will provide Eagle Copters (Booth No. 2263) with the latest T53 iteration for more

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Guardian chooses Soloy AStar

Air ambulance operator Guardian Flight has purchased its first helicopter, a Soloy-modified Eurocopter AS 350BA, on display here at the Soloy Aviation Solutions booth (No. 713). The Soloy SD1 modification replaces the AS 350’s original Turbomeca Arriel engine with a Honeywell LTS101-600A-3A. Guardian Flight is headquartered in Fairbanks, Alaska, with satellite bases in Ketchikan, Dutch Harbor and more

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Offshore training offered onshore

FlightSafety International said it plans to open a helicopter learning center in Lafayette, La., in the fourth quarter of this year. The first full-motion flight simulator scheduled for installation at the center is a Sikorsky S-76C+/++. The Lafayette learning center will focus on offshore operations training as well as courses targeting most helicopter types operating in the Gulf. As many as eigh more

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Let’s get Sirius, helo operators tell cabin outfitters

By Harry Weisberger

Avionics Innovations is showing its line of in-flight entertainment (IFE) equipment designed for helicopters at Booth No. 4819. Based on Ramona (Calif.) Airport in northern San Diego County, the company began life in 1994 with a small line of broadcast radio products for airplane and helicopter cabins, which has expanded with the growth of IFE.

This week at Heli-Expo, Avionics Innovatio more

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New Enstrom Guardian for Plaquemines Parish patrol

By Roger Mola

The newly established airborne law enforcement unit of the Plaquemines Parish, La. sheriff’s office received the keys to a Model 480B Guardian from Enstrom president and CEO Jerry Mullins on Sunday at Heli-Expo. Plaquemines Parish is Enstrom’s third U.S. customer for the 480B and its 25th worldwide.

Mullins said that most of the 480B units have sold outside the U.S. because the procurem more

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