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For the first time in five years, worldwide shipments of general aviation airplanes decreased in 2008, even as industry billings reached $24.8 billion, a 1

JSfirm announced Monday at Heli-Expo in Anaheim, Calif., that companies using their Web sites to advertise job openings can take advantage of JSfirm’s “E”

The US Airways “heroes of the Hudson” pilots used a House aviation subcommittee hearing Tuesday as a bully pulpit to characterize cost-cutting in the U.S.

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Goodrich is moving the technology of dual-channel full-authority digital engine controls (Fadec) into smaller and smaller turboshaft engines.

One of Heli-Expo’09’s worst-kept secrets, the Rolls-Royce RR500 turboshaft engine, was unveiled Monday afternoon in a brief but hearing-impairment-inducing

There’s a good reason for the new-car smell of the Merlin Simulation Pro Series Sikorsky 300C (nee Schweizer 300C) advanced aviation training device (AATD)

Celebrating PHI’s 60 years of helicopter operations, Sikorsky Aircraft yesterday recognized the well-known operator at the Sikorsky booth (No.

ew 406-MHz personal locator beacon (PLB) aimed at military and public-service users.

Eurocopter (Booth No.

Emphasizing Metro Aviation’s “zeal for safety,” the Shreveport, La.-based company announced at Heli-Expo’09 yesterday that FlightSafety International recei

Airborne Law Enforcement Services (ABLE) of Costa Mesa and Newport Beach, Calif., will be the first customer for FLIR Systems’ Ultra 9HD airborne thermal i

Bell Helicopter (Booth No.

Simulator manufacturer Frasca International’s current projects include two full-flight simulators for Bristow Helicopters (a Sikorsky S-92 and a Eurocopter

Aviation safety provider SRT Helicopters (Booth No.

Sabreliner’s “tactical VIP kits” are becoming a popular upgrade for the UH-60 Black Hawk.

HAI held its seventh Heli-Expo Job Fair on Sunday from 1:30 p.m.

Precision Air Group (Booth No.

Sikorsky Aircraft (Booth No.

Tracy Ogle joined St.

Visitors to the Conklin & de Decker display (Booth No.

The FAA has granted Era Training Center a Part 142 certificate, designating the Lake Charles, La.-based company an approved training center.

Sikorsky Aircraft on Monday signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Shirley, N.Y.-based Naasco Northeast to improve S-76 helicopter starter generat

Swiss interiors designer Aerolite has delivered a fourth AW139 EMS helicopter to Norwegian air ambulance operator Lufttransport.

Start Pac (Booth No.

Canadian-based Villeneuve Helicopters has ordered three Eurocopter EC 175s and two AS 350 B2s.

Papillon Grand Canyon Helicopters has selected Honeywell’s Traffic and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) for its fleet of helicopters.

Sandel Avionics has received FAA approval for a new reversionary attitude mode for two of its electronic primary navigation displays, allowing aircraft pit

HEMS operator CareFlite is working with the FAA’s Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) Program Office to help quantify WAAS benefits to HEMS operations.

Billings Air Service has awarded a contract to Vector Aerospace Helicopter Services North America-Langley (Booth No.