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Quietly making its debut at this summer’s Paris Air Show was Eurocopter’s long-awaited EC 145.

German-Russian joint venture Helion Procopter is marketing Russian-built Mi-17 and Mi-34 helicopters for sale or charter to Western companies.

In a move that will bring its total fleet to 95 rotorcraft, aeromedical transport giant Rocky Mountain Helicopter has signed to buy 10 Eurocopter EC 130B4s

Eurocopter president and CEO Jean-Francois Bigay has revealed plans to open HeliSim, a French-based helicopter training center with FAA level-D simulators

Bogus and illegally manufactured parts have long been a danger in aviation, but arrests and convictions of the peddlers are generally rare.

Phoenix-based Simula has been awarded a $11.1 million contract for 490 front and side cockpit airbag shipsets for U.S.

A Sikorsky S-76 hit an electrical tower near the port city of Chinhae, South Korea,  on July 5 and crashed into the sea, killing eight of the 12 peopl

In a development that speaks volumes about the ongoing state of new helicopter technology development in America today, Boeing on July 12 revealed the 13th

Now that former city attorney James Hahn has been elected mayor of Los Angeles, helicopter operators using Van Nuys (Calif.) Airport might be getting a lit

Canada’s National Research Council has won a patent on “an active and adaptive rotor-blade control system called Smart Spring,” which is designed to reduce

Rockwell Collins last month began operating as a stand-alone company following its successful spin-off on June 29 from former parent Rockwell International

After many years of diligent, and what must often have been discouraging, marketing efforts by their manufacturers, sales of head-up displays (HUD) have no

A maxim of modern commerce states that the key to success in business lies in always staying a step or two ahead of the competition.

Honeywell officially launched its MyFlite.com e-commerce Internet site, a Web portal that is designed to serve business aircraft, regional airline and gene

Honeywell is developing a flat-panel retrofittable display system called the Multifunction Radar Display (MFRD), which will show moving-map navigation, wea

The Citation 500 series, Challenger 600 and Falcon 2000 are the latest recipients of Duncan STCs for various avionics installations.

An STC’d RVSM avionics installation for the twin-turboprop Piaggio P.180 Avanti will be provided by Stevens Aviation of Greenville, S.C.

Sandel Avionics of Vista, Calif., is telling customers that the certification program for its terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS) is encountering d

Universal Avionics has received TSO authorization for its first so-called Super FMS, the Tucson, Ariz.

Aviation Communications & Surveillance Systems (ACSS), a joint-venture company owned by L-3 Communications and Thales Avionics, plans to certify a comb

Compagnie Corse Méditerranée (CCM) Airlines, the French regional airline that specializes in routes between France and Corsica, wants to buck a trend estab

Antonov handed over a second example of the An-140 turboprop to its daughter company, Antonov Airlines, early last month.

Ukraine’s Antonov An-74TK-300 made its international debut at this year’s Paris Air Show.

A long-anticipated collaboration between Brazil’s Embraer and France’s ATR finally came to fruition in late June during the Paris Air Show, as the two regi

French engine manufacturer Snecma is developing a new high-pressure core for regional jet applications, dubbed DEM 21 for “21st century demonstrator,” in t

After several years of 25-percent compound growth, UK regional British European Airlines is adopting a more measured approach to provide less unpredictable

In a move widely expected to portend an industry trend in years to come, Continental Airlines last month confirmed its intention to sell 20 percent of its

Having been frustrated by the cancellation of the Fairchild Dornier 428JET, ScotAirways (the UK regional carrier that previously operated as Suckling Airwa

The future of the SAirGroup’s troubled French regional airline subsidiaries hung in the balance as the Swiss airline conglomerate awaited a decision from t

American Airlines’ absorption of TWA took a major step forward when the Dallas-based American signed a pair of new code-share agreements with TWExpress par