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Beechcraft Owners Will Participate For The First Time
For the first time in the event’s 27-year history, the Citation Special Olympics Airlift will include Beechcraft owners alongside Cessna Citation operators flying roughly 700 athletes from across the country to compete in the 2014 Special Olympics USA Games in New Jersey. The Airlift, the seventh such quadrennial effort, is sponsored and managed by the companies of Textron Aviation.
Modified Turbine C206 To Fly Aerial Surveillance Missions
Aviation Solutions has delivered a second Soloy Mark II (MKII) turbine Cessna 206 “Sentinel” aircraft for law enforcement surveillance and patrol support by Arizona’s Pima County Sheriff’s Department. Their first Soloy MKII Sentinel was delivered in late 2013.
If you're going to pop over to the local Sportsman's Warehouse ... chances are even if you're a licensed helicopter pilot, you probably wouldn't fly there. But that's exactly what happened in Salem, Oregon, where a pilot and a passenger used the store's parking lot for an LZ ... with the permission of air traffic controllers at McNary Field in Salem.
PRODUCT: Certain Airbus Helicopters (previously Eurocopter France) Model AS350B, AS350BA, AS350B1, AS350B2, AS350B3, AS350C, AS350D, AS350D1, AS355E, AS355F, AS355F1, AS355F2, AS355N, and AS355NP helicopters, which was sent previously to all known U.S. owners and operators of these helicopters.
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