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Becker Avionics is at Heli-Expo 2010 featuring its newly introduced personal locator beacon (PLB) offering multiple VHF/UHF emergency band operation.

Hard-to-access places on helicopter engines and airframes are easier to inspect with the proper borescope, and Borescopes-R-Us is exhibiting its new 4-mm p

The UK’s Helicopter Museum in Weston-Super-Mare in Somerset is using the latest technology to provide a 360-degree virtual tour of the popular tourist attr

Frasca International announced that Bristow Academy of Aberdeen, Scotland, has received dual qualification for its Frasca Sikorsky S-92 full-flight simulat

A Bell 407, highly customized for air medical operations, is the centerpiece of United Rotorcraft Solutions’ Heli-Expo Booth (No.

The International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST) is holding a briefing from 1:30 to 3 p.m.

Bristow Group consolidated its business units and made changes in the executive suite just weeks before posting declining net income, but modestly increasi

The International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST) was formed in 2005 with the goal of reducing worldwide helicopter accidents by 80 percent by 2016.

EMS provider Air Methods (Booth No.

Air Methods CEO Aaron Todd said the company posted a “good, strong profitable year” in 2009 thanks to a partial rebound in flight hours and lower operating

American Eurocopter said it will close its company-owned and -operated Long Beach, Calif.

American Eurocopter customers will begin to see demonstrably better product support, including hard AOG (aircraft on ground) support, by the end of the sec

Helicopter manufacturer Sikor- sky is outsourcing more of its civil production to India and China while scaling down its partnership with Japan’s Mitsubish

Southeast Aerospace Buys Global AerospaceSoutheast Aerospace has acquired Global Aerospace Consulting, which specializes in systems design, in

In response to the rash of helicopter accidents experienced over the past few years by the medical transport industry, the National Emergency Medical Servi

AgustaWestland has begun delivering a tailored version of the AW109S Grand to Swiss air rescue organization Rega.

American Eurocopter points to a highly customized AStar AS350B3 as a prime example of the capabilities of its Grand Prairie, Texas completion center.

A preview of what future AgustaWestland helicopter cockpits will look like was seen in the AW149 mockup exhibited at the Paris Airshow last June.

The Eurocopter EC175 medium twin’s first prototype (PT1) is now undergoing flight tests from its base at the manufacturer’s headquarters in Marignane, Fran

BAE Systems agreed to pay a $400 million fine to settle a U.S.

India will test fly, in 2012, its indigenous airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system integrated onboard a modified Embraer EMB 145, an official i

The Sikorsky S-92A will take over search-and-rescue helicopter (SAR-H) duties in the UK, following selection of the Soteria Consortium by the UK Ministry o

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is proposing aerial tanker versions of business jets such as the Gulfstream G550.

Brazil’s purchase of 36 new fighters has pitted the air force’s preference for the Saab Gripen, backed by a 10-month technical report, against a presidenti

The U.S.

In the wake of a tailboom failure on a Gulf Airways AW139 in August, AgustaWestland is assuring customers with helicopters on order that it will deliver th

The European Commission’s latest list of operators subject to the emissions trading scheme (ETS) is still incomplete and inaccurate, according to companies

The National Transportation Safety Board today held an annual review of its “most wanted” list of transportation safety improvements.

Aviation market consultant Brian Foley predicts that business jet deliveries will rise at “a steady 2.7 percent per year (compound annual growth rate) betw

The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed fining Dallas-based American Eagle Airlines for alleged safety violations.