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Metro Delivers AStar Helo to Texas Game Wardens

Helicopter will fly law enforcement, search-and-rescue, and aerial firefighting missions

Texas Game Wardens Airbus Helicopters H125 — © Metro Aviation

By Matt Thurber • Editor-in-Chief

June 17, 2024

After modifying an Airbus H125 AStar with several upgrades, Metro Aviation recently delivered the new-production helicopter to the Texas Game Wardens, a division of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. In addition to an Oceana Aviation Cargo Swing, a frame that enables carriage of heavier external loads, Metro installed an L3Harris Wescam thermal imaging system with moving map, searchlight, and 17-inch touchscreen mission monitor, as well as SiriusXM radio.

The mission equipment includes a programmable video switch with push-button source switching, according to Metro, as well as a flip-down 10-inch monitor, data converter that cross-fills point data from the moving map to a Garmin GPS navigator, public address loud hailer, Flightcell DZM Iridium satellite and cellular communication unit, Garmin traffic advisory system, and Garmin GFC 600H autopilot.

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