Airlift has completed NVIS (Night Vision Imaging System) certification of four (4) AgustaWestland AW139 for the Norwegian operator Lufttransport. The AW139 NVIS certification has been approved under EASA STC number 10044769, released to Airlift's EASA approved Part-21 Design Organisation (DOA) earlier this year with the certification of the first helicopter. The four aircraft are normally operated in EMS (Emergency Medical Services) role in Norway from Ålesund, Brønnøysund and Tromsø EMS bases. 

FORT WORTH, TEXAS  – Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, today announced it has reached a new collective bargaining agreement with the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), and UAW Local 218, which represents about 2,400 of the company’s production and manufacturing employees.
 
“I’m very pleased that UAW Local 218 and Bell Helicopter have worked together to successfully reach an agreement on a new contract,” said John L. Garrison, president and CEO of Bell Helicopter.  “This contract allows us to continue to compete in the competitive, global marketplace – providing our customers with the differentiated, cost-competitive products they need to save lives and protect our freedoms."

Alexandria, Va. – Helicopter Foundation International is accepting applications for its 2014 scholarship program.

HFI offers up to four Commercial Helicopter Rating Scholarships, up to six Maintenance Technician Certificate Scholarships, one Michelle North Scholarship for Safety, and up to eight Bill Sanderson Aviation Maintenance Technician Scholarships.

The Helicopter Museum in Weston-Super-Mare has taken delivery of one of the few surviving Campbell Cricket gyroplanes, built at Membury in Wiltshire in the late 1960s as a single-seat development of the original US designed Bensen B.8M gyrocopter.

Established by Don Campbell and partner Geoffrey Whatley, the Campbell factory originated in a garage in Reading but relocated to Membury in 1967. Here designer Peter Lovegrove modified a Bensen with a partially enclosed cockpit and replaced the original unreliable two-stroke power plant with a modified Volkswagen engine, hand-built for the purpose by Royal Berks Motors in Reading. Final assembly was carried out at Membury airfield, close to where the Membury motorway services on the M4 stand today.