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The prodigal sons of the North Sea oil-support community, brothers Stephen and Peter Bond, have returned to the fray more than eight weeks early.

The FAA issued an emergency Airworthiness Directive last month to all Robinson R22 owners and operators, calling for them to carry out immediate checks to

Bell Helicopter was at last month’s Heli-Expo in Las Vegas in force as usual, with a 412 and a 407 on display at its booth.

A deluge of orders for new helicopters during HAI’s Heli-Expo, held in Las Vegas last month, surprised even seasoned industry watchers on the floor.

Rolls-Royce has introduced a new network of service centers that it claims offers “unprecedented” full-capability repair and overhaul (R&O) support to oper

Progress is being made toward the goal of rotorcraft taking their place in the national transportation infrastructure, according to presenters at January’s

A research program commissioned by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has produced findings that could lead to safer night landings on offshore helideck

Jean Ross Howard Phelan, a pioneering airplane and helicopter pilot, died early last month at the age of 87.

Last June Bell/Agusta completed initial testing of its BA609 civil tiltrotor at Bell’s Fort Worth, Texas flight-test center.

Bristow Helicopters has ordered two Eurocopter EC 225s, with a scheduled service entry of spring next year.

While the Bell 427 has struggled for acceptance in the helicopter community, one LongRanger derivative that has been a success from the start is the single

Malaysia’s deputy prime minister has acknowledged the need for the government to acquire helicopters configured to conduct search-and-rescue missions.

By launching the IFR version of its 427 model at Heli-Expo, in Las Vegas in March, Bell Helicopter finally acknowledged its mistakes in introducing the typ

As AIN went to press, the severity of the 2003 forest fire season was repeating, as feared, in Europe as well as in the western U.S.

EMS provider Air Evac Lifeteam, founded in West Plains, Mo., in 1985, has new owners, including two private-equity firms.

Agusta delivered a new A109 Power to the national police of Slovenia.

In a deal valued at more than $230 million, Bell has started to deliver 26 Bell 412EP medium twins and associated equipment to Pakistan.

Grizzly Mountain Aviation, of Prineville, Ore., has taken delivery of a second Kaman Aerospace K-Max, for use on logging, firefighting and power-line const

At Farnborough, AgustaWestland unveiled yet another, long-anticipated evolution of the A109–a stretched and higher-power model dubbed the A109S Grand.

Helicopters fill the make-believe future skies in Disney World’s Tomorrowland, but in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates real rotorcraft are an integral par

As the only approved IFR-capable MD 500E in the world, N5144Q is no ordinary MD 500E helicopter.

Shanghai Sikorsky has delivered two Shen 3A helicopters (license-built Schweizer 300Cs) to Tianjin’s Civil Aviation University of China (CAUC).

A New York-based NBC TV crew tried to infiltrate a St.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is taking over security checks of passengers and baggage at New York City heliports, following warnings th

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Erickson Air-Crane will hand over a “new” S-64 Helitanker to Italy’s Corpo Forestale dello Stato (state forestry corps, or CFS) this morning at Booth No.

Since diversifying into a sales dealership last year, HelicopterBuyer (Booth No.

American Eurocopter opened its new production facility near Columbus, Miss., in October.

British company Avcen has designed an innovative ducted-fan twinjet, called the Jetpod, that it claims will cruise at 300 knots yet take off and land in sl

An international technical consortium has completed trials on a new head-up display (HUD) that allows helicopter pilots to view the display through night-v