Dart aims for bull’s-eye with helo accessories
Accessories make an outfit.

Accessories make an outfit. They also make a helicopter, or at least they make it better. That’s the theory with which Jeff Shapiro launched Dart Helicopter Services (Booth No. 2263) in 2005, and it has apparently been a successful one.

Last year the company realized a 300-percent increase in revenue over the year before, logged 40 new supplementary type certificates (STCs) and filed for three patents. And with the helicopter industry enjoying a stellar period in used aircraft sales, this year promises to be equally busy, according to Shapiro, president and CEO of the Piney Flats, Tenn.-based company.