Helicopter News

Boeing [BA] on Nov. 9 said it has entered into a joint venture with India’s Tata Advanced Systems to manufacture aerostructures for aircraft and defense and commercial aircraft. “This partnership […]

Airbus Helicopters and Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) agreed in a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly market Korean helicopter platforms for the worldwide market, Airbus said Nov. 4. The collaboration […]

The Marine Corps helicopter that went down during humanitarian relief operations in the aftermath of a May earthquake in Nepal, killing all aboard, likely crashed because of unfamiliar terrain and […]

A business owner who wants to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) professionally has doubts about FAA and the Transportation Department’s preliminary plan for registering unmanned systems. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx […]

Textron [TXT] on Oct. 15 named Mitch Snyder president and CEO of its Bell Helicopter unit. Snyder succeeds John Garrison, who is jointing Terex Corp. [TEX] as its new president […]

Airbus Helicopters signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Oct. 27 with the state-owned Czech Republic company LOM PRAHA s.p. for a future cooperation in helicopter maintenance, repair, and overhaul, Airbus […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Oct. 20 posted higher sales but lower earnings in the third quarter as severance charges and higher corporate expenses more than offset a slight increase in […]

The Marine Corps’ new CH-53K King Stallion heavy lift helicopter rose from Sikorsky’s [UTX] Palm Beach, Fla., tarmac for the first time on the morning of Oct. 27, marking a […]

Bell Helicopter [TXT] is working furiously to build its V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft in time for the Army’s joint multirole program (JMR) flight demonstrations in September 2017, a company official […]