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Wichita’s United Way of the Plains will be opening a one-stop help center for unemployed residents and area workers to provide a range of services, includi

PlaneSense, Alpha Flying’s Pilatus PC-12 fractional aircraft ownership program, has added seven airports in the Bahamas to its primary operating area.

Bird Air Services of India has signed an exclusive marketing agreement with Swiss company VistaJet Holding to market VistaJet in the Indian subcontinent (I

The NTSB wants the FAA to monitor the communication contingency plans of all Gulf of Mexico operators.

Dutch very light jet operator Bikkair shut down on February 4, saying that it was unable to secure the capital it needed to fund its development.

Russian investment firm Industrial Investors in late January announced its intention to sell all or a portion of AAI Acquisition, the company formed to buy

Bombardier Aerospace has missed its January 31 target for converting a letter of interest (LOI) for “up to” 60 C Series airliners from Lufthansa, leaving t

Textron has plans to boost its liquidity by at least $1 billion in the first half of this year and, if successful, the company “won’t have to think about s

GlobalAir.com last month announced the addition of a winds-aloft forecast to the national weather section of its airport resource center.

The Gulf region continues to adopt corporate versions of the BAe 146/Avro RJ regional jetliner, generically dubbed the Avro Business Jet (ABJ).

Dallas-based Avatas Aerospace, an FAA-approved repair station specializing in the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A, has acquired Hyannis, Mass.-based Prime

Piedmont Aircraft last month launched as an aircraft sales company for pre-owned Beechcraft and Hawker aircraft.

Carnegie Speech Company and the UK’s Mayflower College have launched “Climb Level 4,” an online English training product for pilots and air traffic control

Turboméca and Dassault Falcon factories located in south- west France suffered only minor damage, if any, during a storm in January that packed winds of 93

First-day attendance at Heli-Expo’09 broke another record and continued to defy gloomy pre-show predictions.

The Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo kicked off this morning amid a wave of negative signs all pointing to a prolonged economic down

Executives at two of the world’s largest helicopter makers insisted at Heli-Expo that the industry can continue to flourish even in the face of a severe ec

Sikorsky yesterday announced the formation of Sikorsky Global Helicopters, a new umbrella business unit for the manufacturer’s commercial helicopters, incl

A group of industry representatives from helicopter OEMs, training companies and operators is close to submitting to the International Civil Aviation Organ

The president of helicopter supply company Sunrise Helicopter has filed a petition to revise a 2008 NTSB report that held the company partially responsible

Heli-Expo is normally a venue for major announcements, but in an ironic twist, one of Sikorsky Aircraft’s announcements on Monday was that it will be makin

DNA analysis of material taken from the pilot-side windscreen of a Sikorsky
S-76C++ helicopter that crashed January 4 near Morgan City, La., suggests

Erickson Air-Crane (Booth No.

Citing a backlog of more than ?10 billion ($12.8 billion) and increases in both revenue and orders during the first nine months of 2008 compared to the sam

Sikorsky Aircraft

Since the August 2007 acquisition of StandardAero (Booth No.

As a wave of negative signs points to evidence of a prolonged economic downturn, perhaps the biggest surprise at the start of Heli-Expo’09 is how packed th

The family members and heirs of three service members killed in the January 2007 crash of a Sikorsky MH-60S Knighthawk have filed a lawsuit against the man

The recent increase in fatal helicopter accidents, along with a push by the FAA to standardize the manufacture of helicopter terrain awareness and warning

The Transportation Security Administration’s Large Aircraft Security Program (LASP) proposal has received criticism from industry groups and operators of h