Mark Huber is an aviation industry veteran who has worked in the flight training, aircraft sales, aircraft component, and airport development businesses. He has flight time in more than 50 different and diverse aircraft, including helicopters, aerobatic aircraft, vintage warbirds, jet fighters, business jets and turboprops, and transport-category aircraft. He has jumped out of several of these—on purpose—with a parachute. His defense and aviation journalism has been published in a variety of national and international periodicals.

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Schweizer is continuing deliveries of its 300C&nbsp;piston engine training helicopters to foreign militaries in Senegal and El Salvador.&nbsp;The Senegalese Air Force took delivery of the first production 300C in July 2021, and in March it&nbsp;signed a follow-on contract with Schweizer for five more of the&nbsp;helicopters. The first aircraft from the follow-on&nbsp;contract was delivered in May, with the remaining deliveries scheduled before October.

 


The additional 300C helicopters will support the Senegalese Air Force’s flight training academy and will be used for ab initio, instrument, and vertical reference training. Each is equipped for IFR flight training with Garmin GPS and ADS-B transponders, Bendix-King navcoms, and RC Allen digital artificial horizon and directional gyros. The helicopters also have&nbsp;auxiliary fuel tanks to extend flight time to 6.4 hours, while two of them&nbsp;are equipped with cargo hooks for vertical reference and long-line training.

 


In April, Schweizer delivered a new baseline VFR Schweizer 300C to the Salvadoran Air Force, the first new Schweizer helicopter delivered to the country of El Salvador since 1984. Ordered through local Schweizer dealer CZA , the aircraft will be used to provide ab initio flight training to air force pilots. The Salvadoran Air Force plans to purchase a new IFR-equipped Schweizer 300C by year-end, pending budget approval.

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