Rosneft to get new helicopters ahead of schedule
Russian Helicopters is looking to deliver four newly built helicopters to Rosneft ahead of schedule [...]
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Russian civil helicopters flew fewer operational hours year-on-year in 2015
The Russian civil helicopter fleet’s combined operational hours flown dropped 8% year-on-year in 2015, to nearly 410,000 hours [...]
Poor economy drives Russia’s helicopter imports down
Foreign-made helicopter deliveries to Russia shrank significantly last year due to the difficult economic situation in the country [...]
Komiaviatrans resumes Mi-2 operations
Customer interest recovered in 2015, as the depreciating national currency made operations of foreign rotary-wing types less competitive compared to previous-generation Soviet-made light helicopters [...]
UTair Group returns to profitability
According to the group’s 2015 financial report, its net profit at the end of 2015 amounted to 2.274 billion rubles ($35 million) [...]
Airbus Helicopter appoints another certified service center in Russia
Airbus Helicopters is creating a local network of certified service centers [...]
First Bell 407GXP assembled in Russia
The rotorcraft was delivered to one of local aviation schools [...]
Russian company looking to assemble foreign aircraft outside Yekaterinburg
Ural Works of Civil Aviation has signed agreements with Bell Helicopter, Airbus Helicopters and Aircraft Industries to organize production of their models in a special economic zone [...]
Second Mi-171A2 prototype takes off
The second test helicopter is representative of the final design [...]
Two Russian Helicopter facilities to merge
The merger will help ramp up production of Mil and Kamov helicopters [...]