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Surack Buys Enstrom Helicopter

Indiana-based Surack Enterprises bought Enstrom Helicopter Corporation after a previously-announced deal to sell the company collapsed.

Indiana-based Surack Enterprises has purchased Enstrom Helicopter Corporation after a previously-announced deal to sell the company collapsed. (Photo: Surack Enterprises)

By Mark Huber • Contributor

May 15, 2022

Indiana-based Surack Enterprises announced on Friday that it acquired Enstrom Helicopter, which filed for Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy and shuttered operations in January. Menominee, Michigan-based Enstrom was in near-continuous operation for 64 years, manufacturing more than 1,300 light turbine and piston-powered helicopters for police, military, commercial, and private missions.

A previously-announced deal to sell the company’s assets to Midlothian, Texas-based MidTex Aviation in March collapsed. Enstrom had most recently been owned by China’s Chongqing General Aviation Industry Group (CGAG) but had at various times been owned by the Purex Corp., famed defense attorney F. Lee Bailey, and inventor Dean Kamen.

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