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Norilsk Avia buys ten new Mi-8AMT helicopters

13 September 2019 Jacek Domański

During the International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019, Russian Helicopters Holding Company (part of RostecState Corporation), Gazprombank Leasing and Norilsk Avia(part of Norilsk Nickel group) signed a contract to supply 10 multipurpose Mi-8AMT helicopters. The […]

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New Russian VRT500 helicopters for Malaysia

8 September 2019 Jacek Domański

During the International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019, VR-Technologies — innovation design office of the Russian Helicopters Holding Company (part of Rostec State Corporation) — signed dealership agreements on promotion and sales of the light […]

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Mi-171A2 and Ka-226T at Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok

4 September 2019 Jacek Domański

During the last week the aviation world was focused on International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019 organized in Zhukovsky, and the news from the show are now hovering in mass and social media, overshadowing other […]

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LOT Polish Airlines has its “Retrojet”

2 August 2019 Piotr Dudek

In December 2018 LOT Polish Airlines celebrated its 90th anniversary. Apart from obvious official ceremonies that were held on this occasion, the management of the national carrier prepared a nice surprise for its passengers and […]

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The last flying season for the Breitling Jet Team

29 July 2019 Jacek Domański

Unfortunately, it seems that this year´s series of bad aviation-related news will continue… A few month ago, we´ve mentioned in our articles about the decision made by the new management of Breitling company, to discontinue […]

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Kamov Ka-32 helicopters fighting with fire in Turkey

25 July 2019 Jacek Domański

Russian Helicopters Holding Company has just delivered three Ka-32A-11BC multipurpose helicopters to Turkey. All of them will be used for firefighting purposes. In July 2018 contracts were signed with KAAN Air (Turkey) for delivery of […]

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In the darkness, there is suddenly a light – a new chance for ´Connie´

22 July 2019 Jacek Domański

A few months ago, in April, we´ve shared the information that due to the limited budget and the scope of the repairs that should be performed on the only flying Lockheed C-121C Super Constellation in […]

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Russian Helicopters to start additive manufacturing of parts in 2020

18 July 2019 Jacek Domański

In 2019, Russian Helicopters Holding Company is planning to re-engineer approximately 30 different helicopter parts to be manufactured using 3D printing technology and integrate them to serial production starting from 2020. ´This year we are […]

CIVIL AVIATION

Mi-38 tested in extreme conditions

18 July 2019 Jacek Domański

Specialists of the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant, a subsidiary of the Russian Helicopters holding (part of Rostec) finished a series of Mi-38 flights conducted under the instrument flight rules (IFR), as well as in conditions […]

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More details from the European premiere of Ansat helicopter at Le Bourget

12 July 2019 Jacek Domański

As we have informed in one of the previous news, Russian Helicopters Holding Company was exhibiting their multi-purpose Ansat helicopters for the first time in Europe at the 53th International Paris Air Show, held in […]

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