Rotorcraft

News and issues regarding all manner of civil and military rotorcraft and their powerplants, including helicopters, tilt rotors and unmanned air vehicles.

Rotorcraft

Bell Establishes 525 Experience Center in Norway

Bell is promoting its new super-medium twin to offshore energy and military customers in the region.

Engines

Airbus Testing Hybrid Propulsion on Flightlab Helo

Airbus Helicopters says experimental electric engine backup system could eventually lead to serial production hybrid engine models.

Rotorcraft

Bristow Signs Deal For Up to 50 eVTOLs with Vertical Aero

Deal is Bristow's second for electric aircraft in less than a month.

Rotorcraft

GetHeli Expands To International Operators

UK-based helicopter charter booking platform GetHeli added international operators to its database and longer term is looking at eVTOLs.

Rotorcraft

Phoenix PD Orders Five Airbus H125s

Phoenix PD calls Airbus H125 "best aircraft for the job."

Finance, Taxes, Insurance

Leasing Venture Orders 12 More Helicopters

Helicopter lessor LCI and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing are acquiring 12 more helicopters worth more than $120 million.

Rotorcraft

Blade Aims To Dominate Organ Transport Market in U.S.

Blade said it will merge its MediMobility business with Trinity Air Medical, which it has signed an agreement to acquire.

Avionics

Hands On: Garmin GFC 600H in Bell 505

Garmin's GFC 600H helicopter flight control system has been certified in the Bell 505, the company's second rotorcraft application for the system.

Avionics

Thales Begins Flying FlytX Helicopter Avionics

Thales has begun flight testing its compact FlytX helicopter avionics suite in a Helicopteres Guimbal Cabri G2.

Engines

Safran Runs Makila 2 Helicopter Engine on 100% SAF

Safran has successfully test run one of its Makila 2 helicopter engines on 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel .

Rotorcraft

Milestone Leasing Three AW139s to Thai Aviation

The intermediate twin AW139s will be used by Thai Aviation Services to support an offshore production and exploration contract in the Gulf of Thailand.

Rotorcraft

Army Accepts First Airbus Helicopters UH-72B

The UH-72B incorporates all the technologies in the latest H145.

Rotorcraft

Vertiport Chicago Primed for eVTOL Future

Vertiport Chicago adds customers including Blade, anticipates future eVTOL operations.

Rotorcraft

CHC Completes Babcock Acquisition

CHC Helicopter Group (CHC) has completed its acquisition of Babcock International’s offshore oil-and-gas aviation business.

Rotorcraft

United Rotorcraft Orders Five More Black Hawks

Air Methods unit will convert Sikorsky S-70s into Firehawk firefighters.

Rotorcraft

North American Guimbal Fleet Tops 50,000 Hours

Nearly 300 Cabri G2s have been delivered worldwide.

Aircraft

Bristow Orders 50 eSTOLs To Launch Air Services in 2026

Helicopter operator Bristow intends to buy up to 50 hybrid-electric STOL airplanes being developed by Electra Aero for air services starting in 2026.

Rotorcraft

Hill Helicopters To Offer Skid Gear Model

Hill Helicopters said it would offer its turbine single with an option of either wheeled or skid gear.

Rotorcraft

Lockheed Shuttering Sikorsky Coatesville

Lockheed Martin says it is closing Sikorsky's Coatesville, Pennsylvania plant early next year.

Airports

New York/New Jersey Helicopter Traffic Draws Fresh Fire

Critics target heliports, civil operations

Rotorcraft

Heli Yachting: Taking Your Airport with You

Like private aviation, large, oceangoing yachts carrying their own helicopters are seeing strong use during the pandemic.

Finance, Taxes, Insurance

Indian Aircraft Lessor Taps General Aviation

Mumbai-based Vman Aero Services aims to be among the first companies entering the general aviation aircraft leasing market in India.

Maintenance and Modifications

Airbus Delivers Five-blade H145s to Germany's ADAC

German air ambulance provider ADAC has taken delivery of two five-bladed Airbus H145s and announced plans to upgrade its H145 fleet to the same config.