Content Archive: January 2007

Bell plans to add about 200 jobs at its Amarillo assembly plant this year, as it gears up to meet expected demand for the V-22 Osprey.

San Diego’s city council voted unanimously to extend the lease on its fire helicopter for six months.

Three Columbia Helicopters Chinooks have recently entered service in South America.

A New Zealand air ambulance trust has bought a second Sikorsky S-76 to meet a growing demand for emergency medical flights in Auckland.

Until the start of the new millennium, the business of monitoring helicopters as they flew over inhospitable expanses of land or water could be a haphazard

One of the world’s greatest civil engineering projects, the $8 billion Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) carries crude oil 800 miles south from Prudhoe B

With this year’s Heli-Expo scheduled for February 6 to 8 in Anaheim, Calif., more than four weeks earlier than last year, news from exhibitors was surprisi

As reported last month in AIN, under FAA requirements civil jets must be equipped with ELTs starting this month.

One thing that pilots have in common with most people is that, from time to time, they wish they were doing something else in their chosen field.

The Gulfstream 500 received FAA type certification last month, and customer deliveries of the business jet are scheduled to start early this year.