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Airbus Group Australia Pacific chief executive Tony Fraser says the Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH) has a bright future amid improved reliability and serviceability rates. The Australian Army’s fleet of 22 Tiger ARH helicopters was the subject of a critical audit published in September 2016, which highlighted the program’s lower than expected serviceability rates and
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has issued Australian type certification to Bell Helicopter for its new five-seat single turbine 505 Jet Ranger X. “We are excited that the Bell 505 Jet Ranger X can now be delivered to operators in Australia,” said Bell Helicopter’s Asia Pacific managing director Sameer A Rehman. “The Bell 505 will fundamentally
The Department of Defence has awarded Austria’s Schiebel Group a contract to supply its Camcopter S-100 to meet the Royal Australian Navy’s interim vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial system (UAS) requirement. Signed in late December, the contract fulfils a request for tender (RFT) for Navy Minor Project (NMP) 1942 which sought to procure a
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
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