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In mid-December Evektor ran the EV-55 Outback’s Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-21 engines for the first time.

The first Boeing 787 prototype had to make an emergency landing at Grant County International Airport at Moses Lake, Wash., after test pilots lost thrust o

Garmin unveiled yesterday at Heli-Expo 2010 the G500H avionics system, specifically for the VFR Part 27 helicopter market.Jim Alpiser, Garmin’s

With an attendance expected to be within 1 to 3 percent of last year’s more than 17,000 and the increase in exhibitors filling the floor of the George R.

To the accompaniment of multicolored lights and music, AgustaWestland unveiled its new AW109 Grand New here yesterday.

The ongoing worldwide need for helicopters of all types that serve diverse industry and government segments is helping keep manufacturers like Rolls-Royce

Robinson Helicopter founder Frank Robinson said certification of the company’s new turbine R66 was “very close” and that the company planned an initial pro

Revue Thommen, a Switzerland-based manufacturer of aircraft instruments, air-data systems and components, is at Booth No.

AgustaWestland CEO Giuseppe Orsi offered a satisfactory look back at 2009, as well as a positive forecast, during a Heli-Expo press conference on Saturday

“The Bell 429 is the first helicopter to have a maintenance program designed under MSG-3,” Neil Marshall, program director for the Bell 429 project, told <

Speaking yesterday at Heli-Expo 2010, Sikorsky president Jeffrey Pino found looking in the rear-view mirror a fair indicator of what’s to come, and as he p

The Canadian Air & Space Museum of Toronto has launched a fundraising drive to acquire a Sikorsky S-58T with almost half a century of service in the U.

CAE and Bell Helicopter announced here yesterday that Bell is providing aircraft systems and performance data and technical support for the Bell 412 traini

The National EMS Pilots Association and Aerosafe Risk Management Group are launching www.lzcheck.com to increas

Calling 2009 a “rough year,” MD Helicopters CEO Lynn Tilton admitted during a press conference yesterday at Heli-Expo that the company had fallen down on c

Turbine-engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce predicted robust growth for the global helicopter market over the next decade at a Heli-Expo press conference yeste

Winslow LifeRaft (Booth No.

Absolute Fire Solutions (AFS) is introducing expanded versions of its FastTrack event-logging hardware platform and its PCTrac software at Heli-Expo 2010.<

VIH Aviation Group (Booth No.

Simplex Manufacturing of Portland, Ore.

The trend toward “plug and play” replacement of legacy electromechanical instrumentation with electronic glass displays continues into the rotorcraft marke

Naaco’s ‘Mercury Mod’ Turns 15Naasco, the starter-generator MRO specialist, is celebrating the 15th anniversary of “Mercury Mod,” it

Sikorsky Aircraft plans to invest $1 billion over the next 10 years in research and development to redefine the future of vertical flight, the Stratford, C

PartsBase, an online marketplace for aviation parts, released its new government-research information tool at Heli-Expo 2010.With more than 90

Enstrom Helicopter (Booth No.

FlightSafety International (Booth No.

At Eurocopter’s annual Heli-Expo breakfast press conference yesterday, CEO Lutz Bertling said the company is using the current economic downturn to retool

Avidyne is touting its EX600 multifunction display (MFD) as a replacement for weather radar indicators in systems from Bendix, Bendix/King and Collins.

Dart Helicopter Services, celebrating just its fifth anniversary this week at Heli-Expo, is weathering the recession and growing nicely, says CEO and manag

Donaldson is introducing two new products to its line of helicopter inlet-barrier filters (IBF).