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Aviation Explorer

16 Aug 2010
In the world of the helicopter production significant event happened in June. The Bell Helicopter Company from its plant in Mirabel (Quebec, Canada) issued a "thousandth" lightweight single-engine Bell 407 helicopter. For the first time a new model B407 developers opened to the world of helicopters at HeliExpo-1995. Already next year first helicopter was delivered to the customer. Bell 407 quickly became the best selling helicopter. Today, the total duration of the program exceeded 2.5 million hours. In Russia the first helicopter was delivered in 2000.May 24, 1999 Type Certificate issued by the MAC. Nowadays total number of Bell 407 currently flies in Russia 15 helicopters. It is another 9 helicopters ordered for delivery within next four years. The maintenance of helicopters in Russia is organized, which is approved by the Russian authorities and the company manufacturer itself. The maintenance is performed by «Kazan avia enterprise».

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