Erickson has been awarded two five year term agreements with one firm-fixed year and four follow on annual option years, to provide vertical replenishment and other rotary-wing logistic services to Military Sealift Command for support of the United States Navy’s 5th and 7th Fleets. Both contracts were awarded in February 2016, but Erickson chose to delay announcement until res...
How do you calculate the cost of an accident? Beyond, that is, the simple, unquantifiable human tragedy of the event. But as more details emerge on the fatal April crash of an H225 helicopter on Norway’s west coast, some of those costs are also becoming clear. With the Super Puma fleet now grounded for safety reasons, operators are faced – again – with a potentially long-te...
A CHC-operated Sikorsky S-92 helicopter with 16 people onboard was forced to make an unscheduled landing on an oil platform off Norway on Friday, a rescue official said. The incident comes just over a month after an Airbus H225 Super Puma helicopter operated by the same company crashed, killing all 13 people on board as the main rotor blades separated from the aircraft. Norway's Civil Av...
HeliGroup, a subsidiary of Helicopter Services, has today opened for business. Heligroup has been formed to focus on the UK helicopter charter and management market and to build upon the advanced training that Helicopter Services currently provide. HeliGroup, created by entrepreneur Matthew Munson, aims to differentiate itself in the market by providing exceptional customer service that Hi...
Boeing and the US government have signed a contract for the provision of 24 AH-64E Apache rotorcraft to Qatar. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress in 2014 that an authorisation had been granted to provide 24 of the type to Qatar, and a $667 million contract was signed on 7 June. In addition to the aircraft, one Longbow radar crew trainer will also be provided, plus grou...
Babcock Mission Critical Services Offshore has taken delivery of two brand new Sikorsky S-92 helicopters with a little help from one of the largest aircraft in the world. The S-92s made the journey from the U.S. manufacturers’ Philadelphia plant to Glasgow Prestwick Airport, United Kingdom, inside a massive Antonov An-124 Ruslan transport aircraft. The size of the Antonov means...
Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) has selected Safran Helicopter Engines as engine supplier for its Light Civil Helicopter (LCH). It will be powered with the existing Arriel 2C2 engine. On the Light Armed Helicopter (LAH), Safran has been selected by the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), KAI and Hanwha Techwin. The LAH will feature a new engine designated Arriel 2L2. Safran Hel...
The European Aviation Safety Agency issued an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) on June 2 to ground the fleet of Airbus Helicopters AS332 L2 Super Puma and EC225 LP (H225) models, after more evidence of a potential unsafe condition in the main rotor assembly was discovered. This follows an April 29 crash of an EC225LP near Bergen, Norway....
Russian Helicopters, part of State Corporation Rostec, has signed memorandums of understanding with the Committee for Emergency Situations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and with other government structures of the Republic of Kazakhstan during KADEX-2016 defense expo. According to the documents, Kazakhstan' authorities are interested in Russian-made helicopters while Russian Helicopter...
Boeing and Sikorsky and have laid out their pitches for an expected German procurement of heavy-lift helicopters. Both the Boeing CH-47F Chinook and Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion are the prime candidates for the much-anticipated €3 billion ($3.35 billion) German Heavy Transport Helicopter Program (STH). The new aircraft will replace Germany’s aging fleet of license-built CH...
The German Defence Ministry decided on Friday to ground the three Airbus Cougar AS532 helicopters used to transport Chancellor Angela Merkel, after a Europe-wide grounding of the civilian version of the aircraft, a ministry spokesman said. An Airbus H225 Super Puma helicopter ferrying passengers from a Norwegian oil platform operated by Statoil crashed on April 29, killing all 13 people on boar...
Enstrom Helicopter resumed flight testing of its new TH180 last Thursday, a two-seat model aimed at the training market. A second flight-test vehicle joined the program to restart testing, the company told AIN yesterday. On its first flight, test pilot William Taylor performed hover, forward flight and rigging checks on the new helicopter. The flight-test program h...
