Rotorcraft
S-76D Gains EASA Nod and Gets iFly Sikorsky App
The app allows the user to configure an aircraft, evaluate weight and balance and do common performance calculations.

Sikorsky Aircraft’s newest civil helicopter–the S-76D–achieved approval for operations in Europe from EASA on February 25, Sikorsky announced at Heli-Expo 2015. The FAA had granted the type certificate for this latest S-76 variant in October 2012. More than 800 S-76s have been delivered globally since 1979.

“The S-76D already has seen great success in offshore and VIP operations in Trinidad and Tobago, Korea and China, and has entered into search-and-rescue service with the Japan Coast Guard,” said Sikorsky Commercial Systems & Services president Shane Eddy. “We have high expectations for the aircraft’s acceptance, performance and importance to our European customers.”