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The HM Coastguard search and rescue (SAR) helicopter base in Lee-On-Solent has started flying the new Leonardo AW189 helicopter for SAR operations. The new £20 million AW189 helicopters are painted in red and white HM Coastguard colours,…

Norway is a fascinating country characterized by multicoloured villages and wild environments. We just wondered how could be providing SAR, water rescue and safety missions in such a land. That's why we interviewed the Northern Norway Joint…

WELL-KNOWN PILOT Dara Fitzpatrick has been named as the first casualty of this morning’s rescue helicopter crash

H160 virtual experience and full range of HCare digital solutions also on display. Marignane, France, 1st March 2017 – Airbus Helicopters will be highlighting its wide range of products and services at this year’s Heli-Expo, 7-…

• Deliveries up five percent to 418 units • 388 gross orders • Key military campaigns secured Marignane, 27 January 2017 – Airbus Helicopters delivered 418 rotorcraft in 2016, a five percent increase compared with 2015, against a…

In these hours Chile is facing a disastrous phoenomenon which is threatening forestry in the whole country. More than 90 blazes have burnt 180,000 hectares, razing hundreds of homes and turning villages to ashes. The campaign to…

L’AQUILA – A 118 Emergency Helicopter of Abruzzo, an EC-KJT has  crashed while completing a rescue operation at Campofelice, near L’Aquila. It is thought that the helicopter fell from a height of 600 metres, but the news given by Rai News…

Donauwörth, 7 December 2016 – The German federal police (Bundespolizei) has signed a contract with Airbus Helicopters for the purchase of three H215 multi-role rotorcraft via the purchasing administration of the German Federal Ministry of…

A man and two women, (Not four as previously reported) have sadly sustained fatal injuries in a crash involving a bus on the M1 highway near Savanah park in Chatsworth.

A new and incredible test has been successfully completed in this month: a new automated, flying ambulance completed its first solo flight. This represents a potential solution for challenging search and rescue missions. This…