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HAI PUBLICATIONS Convention News DAY 2 February 28, 2018 HAI PUBLICATIONS Convention News Heli-Expo 2018's opening day saw manufacturers announce sales of upwards of 100 new helicopters worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Meanwhile, HAI said some 860,000 sq ft of exhibit space has been sold at this year's Heli-Expo, rivaling 2017's record- breaking year. It all means the 2018 event is on-pace to be one of the best ever. Leonardo, Kopter Sales Top $150 million Both firms notch new orders › page 3 KASHEA KLOSS KASHEA Leonardo Bullish on AW169 Wide range of options Airbus snags Metro mega order may help › page 10 by Mark Huber Asia-Pacific Growth Airbus Helicopters and Metro Aviation Children’s Hospital Atlanta, Gundersen 250 pounds of payload, which translate into EMS ops lead the market announced an estimated $125 million fleet Health Systems (Wisconsin), and Vidant another hour of endurance or an additional order for 25 EC145e medium-twins on Health (North Carolina). patient, respectively, a Metro spokesman › page 16 Tuesday at Heli-Expo 2018. Deliveries have It currently operates its EC145es as VFR- told AIN. already begun and are scheduled to con- only, enabling a useful load improvement Metro plans to operate some of the new Kopter CEO’s Plans tinue over the next four years. of 330 pounds over standard IFR avionics, EC145es in its own medevac fleet, but said it The EC145e is a lower-cost variant of the compared to the EC145C2. However, Metro would also remarket others in medevac, util- Andreas Löwenstein’s out-of-production EC145C2, a model simi- is developing an STC for a lightweight IFR ity, and VIP configurations. ROI › page 25 lar to the U.S. Army’s UH-72A Lakota that package that it will install into its EC145es “The versatility and price point made it is still in production. at its Shreveport, Louisiana completions an attractive addition to a large number of It will be built in the same Columbus, facility. Working with Genesys Aerosystems, rotary-wing fleets, and we have put seven Flying Neighborly Mississippi plant where the Lakota is man- Metro has developed and received FAA in service since committing to our first pur- ufactured, helping to enable the continued STCs for a VFR electronic flight instrument chase in 2015,” said Metro Aviation president Hawaii operators operation of that facility, according to system (EFIS) and an autopilot and stability Mike Stanberry. “The EC145e has proven to take action Airbus (Booth N1915). It anticipates main- augmentation system for the EC145e. IFR be a workhorse across various mission pro- taining a production rate of two UH-72As/ certification is expected this year. files, and we are excited about putting these › page 26 EC145es per month in Columbus. Airbus’ standard VFR avionics package new aircraft into service within our family Metro (Booth N2207) was the first cus- for the EC145e features a glass cockpit with of customers.” Bell’s 505 Jet tomer for the lighter-weight, lower-cost the Garmin G500H and GTN 650 GPS and The operator said it has found significant EC145e when it was launched by Airbus communication system. It has an mtow interest for the lower-cost EC145e from Ranger X Helicopters in 2015, and it already flies six weight of 7,903 pounds. The weight savings a diverse group of customers, including The AIN Pilot Report of them in air medical roles in various U.S. from Metro’s VFR-only avionics package air medical, law enforcement, utility, and locations, including West Michigan Air Care, allow an extra 70 gallons of fuel or 200 to other missions. n › page 28 MD Helicopters on a roll with military contracts by Randy Padfield The five-year, firm fixed-price contract to Helicopters is displaying an MD 530F for provide 150 armed MD 530 helicopters and the Virginia Beach Police Department required production support services to the and an MD 530G attack helicopter, one U.S. Army and Partner Nation Army Aviation of six ordered by the Malaysian Ministry Forces, which MD Helicopters signed in Sep- of Defense. Both are equipped with glass tember last year, made 2017 “our best year cockpits that are expected to receive FAA ever in booking and backlog,” CEO Lynn certification soon and will be offered to all Tilton said yesterday at Heli-Expo 2018. MD 530 operators. Deliveries of the first five of 30 new MD The Virginia Beach Police Department’s 530F Cayuse Warrior helicopters to the MD 530F is scheduled for delivery in June KLOSS KASHEA Afghan Air Force are slated to begin in May, of this year. Designed to have the pilot with the rest expected to be delivered by flying from the right seat (MD 500s are year-end, she said. Subsequent deliveries typically flown from the left seat, which Helisul opts for Bell 505s will go to Kenya and Lebanon, and orders is different from most other helicopters), from additional countries are anticipated. the helicopter’s glass cockpit includes by Alexa Paprosky Separately, MD moved airframe produc- Howell Instruments engine instrument tion from Mexico to Mesa, Arizona. For- displays, Garmin’s G500H TXi MFD/PFD Bell logged an order from Brazilian air- Its Bell 505s will be used for panoramic ty-two aircraft are now on the production and GTN650 GPS navigator, and L-3 ESI- tour operator Helisul Táxi Aéreo for flights over Rio de Janeiro and Foz do line, and Tilton said she expects six units 500 electronic standby indicator. four 505 Jet Ranger X light-single heli- Iguaçu, according to Bell. to be added every 30 days. To support the The ship also has extended landing gear, a copters yesterday at Heli-Expo 2018. Separately, Bell (C5122) also held a production ramp-up, the company hired Fargo 21-gallon auxilary fuel tank, wire-strike Helisul—which will take delivery of all ceremony on the Heli-Expo show floor some 100 people this year; and the OEM protection, high-contrast main rotor blades, four helicopters this year, making it the to recognize Helite’s receipt of the first is now employing more Americans now Flir Star Safire 380HDc EO/IR system, Trak- first operator of the Bell 505 in Brazil— Bell 505 to feature a VVIP interior. The than when Patriarch Partners Investment kaBeam A800 searchlight and NVIS-compat- has also been named a Bell-certified interior will be provided by Mecaer Avia- Fund, of which Tilton was the sole prin- ible-interior to provide enhanced visibility for service center. tion Group and installed in the U.S. n cipal, bought the company in 2005. Total officers on low-light missions. employment is now about 500. Before opening to questions, Tilton While Tilton called 2017 MD’s best year quashed an issue that had marred the MD ever, she expects 2018 revenue to be 65 to Heli-Expo press event last year, saying, “I In apparent victory for GA groups, Shuster 70 percent higher than that. won the SEC case. I fought the government At its Heli-Expo booth (5505), MD in its own private court and I won.” n signals end to ATC privatization battle In a terse press release issued late He admitted in the statement that the yesterday, U.S. House of Represen- proposed reform of ATC in H.R. 2997 tatives Transportation and Infrastruc- “did not reach the obvious level of sup- MD Helicopters CEO Lynn Tilton ture Committee chairman Bill Shuster port needed to pass Congress,” and he has a reason to smile as her (R-Pennsylvania) appeared to drop will now work with his colleagues on company looks back on 2017 his once-strong push to privatize the a reauthorization bill “to provide long- as its “best year ever” and U.S. air traffic control (ATC) system. term stability for the FAA.” M.T. expects 2018 to see even greater revenue. Much of the company’s success comes from the popularity of its products with Air Methods named U.S. launch customer the U.S. Army and among other BARRY AMBROSE BARRY military operators. for Bell’s new 407GXi helicopter INDEX Air Methods is the U.S. launch cus- and 412. According to W.M. Gray, the Airbus Helicopters ...................................3, 8, 9 Kopter ....................................................... 3, 25 tomer for the new Bell 407GXi, plac- Colorado-based company’s senior vice Abingdon Foundation ...................................24 Laselec ......................................................... 20 ing an initial order for six of the president of aviation services, the Bell Able Aerospace Services .............................. 20 Latitude Technologies ................................... 31 single- engine helicopters yesterday at 407 is the best-performing helicopter in Asia Sky Group .............................................. 16 Leonardo .............................................3, 10, 29 Heli-Expo 2018. Terms of the deal were its fleet. “It’s got the best in-service rate Astronics ........................................................ 31 LifePort ......................................................... 22 not disclosed. of any aircraft that we operate because ATC Reform ......................................................2 Lord ............................................................. 22 As the world’s largest aeromedical of Bell’s support,” he told AIN. Bell ................................................2, 14, 28, 29 Luma Technologies ........................................ 12 services provider, Air Methods has Gray added that Air Methods expects Corporate Service Supply & Mfg. ................. 22 MD Helicopters ................................................2 operated Bell products since 1980, and to receive its first medevac-configured Daher ...............................................................6
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