The Bristol Aeroplane Company's Helicopter Division had its roots in 1944, when the helicopter designer Raoul Hafner, released from the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment ( AFEE ), came to Bristol along with some members of his team.

Under Hafner's direction, the Helicopter Division produced two successful designs that were sold in quantity.

After the Type 171, the Bristol Helicopter Division started work on a tandem rotor civil helicopter.

The Type 194 was in an advanced state of design when the Bristol Helicopter Division was merged, as a result of government influence, with the helicopter interests of other British aircraft manufacturers ( Westland, Fairey and Saunders-Roe ) to form Westland Helicopters in 1960.

The Winthrop Harbor Police department offers the following bureaus: Detectives, Sex Crimes Division, Communications, Bike Patrol, Helicopter Operations ( Airborne Law Enforcement Division ) and Evidence.

: Maryland State Police Aviation Division ( Medevac Helicopter )

Bombardier Aerospace houses its Defence Services Division on the property of Mirabel Airport .. Bell Helicopter manufactures all its commercial helicopters at a plant located on the airport.

* October 22 – In Operation Bushbeater, the U. S. Marine Corps makes the first use of vertical envelopment tactics when patrol teams of the 1 Marine Division use 40-foot ( 12-meter )- long knotted ropes to descend from Sikorsky HRS-1 helicopters of Marine Transport Helicopter Squadron 161 ( HMR-161 ) in Korea.

He arrived in Vietnam in late December 1967 and joined the 161st Aviation Company ( Assault Helicopter ), which was reorganized and expanded into the 123rd Aviation Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Division ( Americal ) in January 1968.

It became the Boeing Helicopter Division in 1987.

In the U. S. Army he served as an aviation officer, eventually becoming an Assault Helicopter Flight Commander in the 82nd Airborne Division.

The old " A " Divisions HQ at Wyatts Way Ripley ( adjacent to force Headquarters ) is now the home of Operational Support Division which encompasses the Road Policing Unit ( with bases at Cotton Lane in Derby, Beetwell Street in Chesterfield and Chapel-en-le-Frith ), Air Support ( North Midlands Helicopter Support Unit ( NMHSU )), a partnership with Nottinghamshire Police ), ARU ( Armed Response Unit ), Dog Section, Uniform Task Force and Road Policing Support ( Collision Investigators ).

As the 57th Mixed Ship Aviation Division, they commanded the 830th and 38th Shipborne Anti-Submarine Helicopter Regiments and the 279th Shipborne Fighter Aviation Regiment from Severomorsk-3 in Murmansk Oblast until 1 May 1998, when it was disbanded.

It became the Hughes Helicopter Division, Summa Corporation in 1972, and was reformed as Hughes Helicopters, Inc. in 1981.

The Aircraft Division became the Hughes Helicopter Division, Summa Corp. That same year, the US Army issued a request for proposals ( RFP ) for an Advanced Attack Helicopter ( AAH ).

In 1981, Summa's Hughes Helicopter Division was reconstituted as Hughes Helicopters, Inc .. By December, six AH-64A prototypes had been built and the Army had awarded a purchase contract to the company.

Andreotta was killed shortly after the events at My Lai while serving in B Company ( the " Warlords ") of the 123rd Aviation Battalion of the Americal Division ( the 161st Assault Helicopter Company had been reorganized into the 123rd Battalion in January 1968 ).

With air support from the 1 / 1 Attack Helicopter Battalion and fire support from 4 / 3 FA Battalion preventing Iraqi artillery from interfering, the U. S. 1st Infantry Division conducted a passage of the 2nd ACR's lines.

In 1972, with funding from NASA and the U. S. Army, Bell Helicopter Textron started development of the XV-15, a twin-engine tiltrotor research aircraft.

One of the last projects started by Curtiss Aeroplane was the ambitious Curtiss-Bleecker SX-5-1 Helicopter, a design that had propellers located midpoint on each of the four large rotors that drove the main rotors.

With that the Advanced Attack Helicopter program was started.

In April 1997 the station started providing training for helicopter pilots for all three of the UK's armed services, being home to the Defence Helicopter Flying School.

Phase I of the program started in February 1986 when development contracts were placed with six companies: AAI Corporation, Ares Incorporated, Colt's Manufacturing Company, Heckler & Koch ( H & K ), McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems ( MDHS ), and Steyr Mannlicher.

By the time the UTTHCO ( Utility Tactical Transport Helicopter Company ) was deployed to Vietnam in 1962, the US had started experimenting more with the idea of arming helicopters both for defensive and offensive purposes.

Unlike the military, whose aircraft are not always in the same location as the tactical operators, the HRT ’ s Tactical Helicopter Unit is literally right out the front door from the HRT central command.

In 2006 Piaggio Aero Industries has signed an agreement with Pratt & Whitney Canada to acquire 25 % of the share capital of P & WC Turbo Engines Corp., which is in charge of the production of the PW206 – PW207 helicopter engines which fits out many helicopter models such as the Agusta A109 Power ', the Eurocopter EC / 135, the Bell Helicopter B427, the MD Helicopters MD900 and the Kazan Ansat.

The airline carried out trials with its Helicopter Experiment Unit, operating mail services in East Anglia during 1948 and a passenger service from Cardiff via Wrexham to Liverpool ( Speke ) Airport in 1950.

Maj Andre Seguin, then a flight commander with 444 Tactical Helicopter Squadron out of Lahr, West Germany conceived the wire protection system following a fatal wirestrike.

* October 11 – In Operation Bumble Bee, 12 Sikorsky HRS-1 helicopters of Marine Transport Helicopter Squadron 161 ( HMR-161 ) relieve an entire U. S. Marine Corps battalion on the front line in Korea, with each helicopter carrying six Marines at a time 15 miles ( 24 km ) to the front and bringing six Marines at a time out to the rear area on the return trip.

File: US Navy 071105-N-7027P-667 Marines attached to 4th Platoon, 2nd Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team ( FAST ), practice fast roping out of a MH-60S Seahawk, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron ( HSC ) 28, during a crisis respo. jpg | Troop insertion practice, viewed from the air.

File: US Navy 071105-N-7027P-352 Marines attached to 4th Platoon, 2nd Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team ( FAST ), practice fast roping out of a MH-60S Seahawk, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron ( HSC ) 28, during a crisis respo. jpg | Troop insertion practice, viewed from the ground.

He discovers that a subversive action group, using the acronym THOR ( Tactical Helicopter Offensive Response, the " proposed use of military helicopters to quell disorder "), is intending instead to use Blue Thunder to carry out an evil mission of their own, one that involves the secret elimination of political undesirables.

In Helicopter Valley, 2 / 4 Marines was replaced by 2 / 9 Marines on 26 July and on 27 July 1 / 3 and 2 / 9 and marched south out of the valley.

* When Peter wants to quickly move out, he screams " to the Petercopter " and steps into a helicopter that reminds of Budgie the Little Helicopter.

Originally formed at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, in Santa Ana, California, on 2 June 1952 as Marine Air Group ( Helicopter Transport ) 36, the Group spent several years training for amphibious operations to carry out the role of ship-to-shore assault support.

Helicopter pads are available at 27 stations ; runways at 15 locations are gravel, sea-ice, blue-ice, or compacted snow suitable for landing wheeled, fixed-wing aircraft ; of these, 1 is greater than 3 km in length, 6 are between 2 km and 3 km in length, 3 are between 1 km and 2 km in length, 3 are less than 1 km in length, and 2 are of unknown length ; snow surface skiways, limited to use by ski-equipped, fixed-wing aircraft, are available at another 15 locations ; of these, 4 are greater than 3 km in length, 3 are between 2 km and 3 km in length, 2 are between 1 km and 2 km in length, 2 are less than 1 km in length, and data is unavailable for the remaining 4.

Having reached the requisite standard, Prince Harry attended the Defence Helicopter Flying School at RAF Shawbury, where he joined brother Prince William.

Pilots designated for rotary wing service train at the Defence Helicopter Flying School, RAF Shawbury.

The former Westland site at the now unused airfield in Weston-super-Mare houses The Helicopter Museum featuring a number of examples of Westland aircraft.

Other aircraft assigned to Sawyer over the years included H-43B and HH-1H rescue helicopters of the 48th and 39th Air Rescue and Recovery Wings at Eglin AFB, Florida at the K. I. Sawyer Helicopter ( later re-designated Training ) Annex, 14 Mar 1975-1 Oct 1977.

* 1984 – 1993: Lieutenant, Pilot, 815 NAS on HMS Brazen ; Helicopter Warfare Instructor, 702 NAS at RNAS Culdrose ; Flight Commander, 829 NAS on HMS Campbeltown

Helicopter development began at Bell Aircraft in 1941 with the company's first one, the Bell Model 30 first flying in 1943.

Image: QLD Rescue Helicopter. JPG | Helipad at Green Island ( Queensland ), Great barrier reef, Australia

The first Marine Aircraft Wing was developed at Quantico, as well as the Corps ' first helicopter squadron, Marine Helicopter Squadron One ( HMX-1 ), the first helicopter squadron to provide rapid transportation for Presidents of the United States (" Marine One ").

Helicopter leaving Tresco at Tresco Heliport

During the Second World War the RAF Staff College was the headquarters of RAF Maintenance Command, and gained a unique place in British history, as the first British military helicopter unit, the Helicopter Training School, was formed in January 1945 at RAF Andover.

He completed his dissertations (" Candidate ", 1943, Ph. D., 1945 ) and in 1947 headed the Helicopter Lab at TsAGI, which was later turned into the Moscow Helicopter Plant.

Helicopter and A-1 Skyraider crews were put together from instructors at Eglin and personnel returned from Southeast Asia.

Their airlifting capabilities were provided by the Tactical Helicopter Group of the Royal Norwegian Air Force, which is stationed at Bardufoss.

U. S. Marines Helicopter at RAF Akrotiri

Commando Helicopter Force ( CHF ), of the Fleet Air Arm, based at RNAS Yeovilton provide Helicopter support.

The future of RAF Benson was in doubt for some time, while Project Belvedere was looking into closing at least one of Joint Helicopter Command's airfields.

* Bell timeline at the Helicopter History Site