Mark Huber is an aviation industry veteran who has worked in the flight training, aircraft sales, aircraft component, and airport development businesses. He has flight time in more than 50 different and diverse aircraft, including helicopters, aerobatic aircraft, vintage warbirds, jet fighters, business jets and turboprops, and transport-category aircraft. He has jumped out of several of these—on purpose—with a parachute. His defense and aviation journalism has been published in a variety of national and international periodicals.

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GE Aviation intends to establish a rotorcraft operations&nbsp;center to provide remote engine diagnostics and analytics to helicopter customers&nbsp;based on what it furnishes to its fixed-wing clients. “We’ve been working with some key customers on how we can provide that product to expand our services offering,” said Elissa Lee, GE director of commercial rotorcraft programs.&nbsp;
She added that GE would say more&nbsp;about it next month&nbsp;at HAI Heli-Expo. However, Lee did say that the company plans&nbsp;to make it available to commercial customers for its line of CT7 turboshaft engines, including Bell, Leonardo, and Sikorsky. A start date depends on demonstrated customer interest, but the nuts and bolts already are there. “It’s something that we use today internally,” Lee said.&nbsp;
GE—which provides its CT7-2F1 for the Bell 525 super-medium twin-engine helicopter—continues to work with Bell as it completes&nbsp;certification of&nbsp;the helicopter later this year.&nbsp;GE will offer its TrueChoice flight-hour maintenance program for the engine, which <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2019-03-25/faa-certifies-new-ge-engine-bell-525" target="_blank">received FAA certification</a> in 2019. Interest in TrueChoice is growing from operators of other CT7 platforms, especially among the Sikorsky S-92A community, Lee said.

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