Paul Sadler

Airbus Helicopters recorded an increase in new helicopter deliveries during 2016 despite its chief executive Guillaume Faury describing the year as “probably the most difficult of the last decade”. With the continuing stagnation of the offshore sector and the fallout from April’s fatal accident in Norway which resulted in a world-wide grounding of the H225

The US Marine Corps (USMC) will deploy its largest helicopter and tiltrotor element to northern Australia yet when its next six-monthly rotation to Darwin gets underway in April. The sixth rotation since deployments to Australia were first announced on November 16 2011, the aviation combat element of 13 helicopters and 1,250 personal of the Marine Rotational Force

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued yet another emergency airworthiness directive (AD) requiring urgent inspections of the tail rotor pitch change shaft (TRPCS) assembly bearings on the global Sikorsky S-92 fleet. This latest AD, published on January 13, follows the Lockheed Martin-owned manufacturer’s January 10 Alert Service Bulletin (ASB) requiring all operators of S-92As to

The Royal Australian Navy’s Aircraft Maintenance and Flight Trials Unit (AMAFTU), part of Defence’s aircraft test and evaluation capabilities, is preparing to conduct no fewer than seven first of class flight trials (FoCFT) before September. In January, the Unit will embark on HMAS Melbourne to start the MH-60R Seahawk Romeo’s FoCFT in the Adelaide class

Toll Helicopters has commenced aeromedical operations to provide helicopter rescue and retrieval services in partnership with New South Wales (NSW) Ambulance across the southern half of the state. Officially launched as the Toll NSW Ambulance Rescue Helicopter by NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner at Bankstown Airport on Friday, the service will use eight brand new

The global Sikorsky S-92 fleet is again subject to mandatory inspections after the Lockheed Martin-owned manufacturer issued an Alert Service Bulletin (ASB) on January 10 requiring all operators of the type to undertake one-off inspections. The off-aircraft inspections of the tail rotor pitch change shaft and bearing assemblies, required to be performed before the next