O n this day in aviation history, December 8, 1962, a new type of helicopter, the Bell OH-4A, took to the air for the first time. An entry into an Army competition, the OH-4A would become the ...

Bell lost that competition but the 206 was commercially successful. The TH-57 Sea Ranger provides advanced (IFR) training to several hundred aviation students a year at Naval Air Station Whiting ...

Bell calls time on 206 as Jet Ranger X waits in the wings. By Dominic Perry 2017-01-31T19:31:30+00:00. Bell Helicopter has quietly called time on one its longest running and most iconic programmes ...

About 7,500 Bell 206 variants have been produced, ... Although the Bell 505 Jet Ranger X pulls from the heritage of the JetRanger, the commonalities between the models are few.

Upgrade of the fleet set to reduce pilot workload thanks to increased automation; Dubai-UAE:– Horizon, the Middle East’s largest independent helicopter flight training academy supporting commercial ...

In the mid-1960s, Bell Helicopter started design work on the Model 206 JetRanger, a commercial, light-turbine helicopter that revolutionized rotorcraft operations during the next three-plus decades.

The Bell 206 JetRanger helicopter is one of the world’s most popular choppers since its debut in the skies more than 40 years ago. The 1,500-pound helicopters are light and easy to maneuver, … ...

Bell Helicopter’s Model 206 Jet Ranger is iconic. Around 8,500 aircraft were produced, in multiple civil and military variants. But the company stopped building the five-seat 206B in 2010, to ...

Bell sued in 2006, Iran was a no-show in court and so Bell won a default judgment of $22,035,002.28 plus attorneys fees. Iran subsequently got the judgment tossed out.