Content Archive: February 2010

Cobham adds SAS for light helicopters

Cobham Avionics, specifically the former S-Tec autopilot house in Mineral Wells, Texas, yesterday described the functions, features and financial benefits

AW retools tail boom for retrofit on 139

In the wake of a tail-boom failure on a Gulf Airways AW139 in August last year, AgustaWestland (Booth No.

Russians plan for a growing market

The annual Russian Hour at Heli-Expo yesterday played to a full house.

SRT a class act for ’copter training

SRT Helicopters (Booth No.

Sikorsky escapes 2009 relatively unscathed

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

Thommen spotlights redone Russian searchlight system

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

2009 a bumpy ride for MD Helicopters

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

Bell 429 is first helo with MSG-3

“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 <

Museum seeks financing for Sikorsky S-58T

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.

R66 certification ‘very close’

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