Bell Helicopter has quietly called time on one its longest running and most iconic programmes, with assembly of the 206 series due to end in the first half of 2017. The airframer feels that with the ...

The helicopter that crashed in the Hudson is a widely used model. By Tim Balk The sightseeing helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday, killing six people, was a Bell 206L LongRanger, ...

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 focus on ...

The Australian state of Queensland will operate its first police helicopter from November with a six-month trial of a Bell 206 Long Ranger. The helicopter and pilots will be supplied by fast-growing ...

In the recently concluded September quarter, Bell’s commercial helicopter deliveries fell significantly due to weak global demand. Bell helicopters is the largest unit of Textron constituting about a ...

Bell Helicopter has announced the successful first flight of the Bell 505 Jet Ranger X helicopter. The maiden flight took place at the company’s Mirabel, Québec manufacturing facility. "Bell ...

Bell Helicopter said Thursday it would assemble its 505 Jet Ranger X in Mirabel, Canada, and abandon plans to build the new-model aircraft at a $26.3 million Lafayette facility that Louisiana financed ...

The TH-57 is a derivative of the commercial Bell Jet Ranger 206. Although primarily used for training, these aircraft are also used for photo, chase and utility missions. The JetRanger was initially ...

Less than a year after opening its 82,300-square-foot manufacturing facility, Bell Helicopter is changing which products it will build in Lafayette. In a conference call Thursday afternoon, the ...

On this day in aviation history, December 8, 1962, a new type of helicopter, the Bell OH-4A, took to the air for the first ...

BLOOMFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kaman Corporation announced today that its Aerosystems division (Kaman) has been awarded an extension to its current contract with Bell Helicopter to manufacture ...