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Originally a Sikorsky Aircraft product, the type certificate and manufacturing rights were purchased from them by Erickson Air-Crane in 1992. Since that time, Erickson Air-Crane has become the manufacturer and world's largest operator of S-64 Aircranes and has made over 1,350 changes to the airframe, instrumentation, and payload capabilities of the helicopter.
The helicopter is the largest civilian helicopter made yet by Bell, and can carry 16 passengers and two crew. [17] Bell has also pitched the Bell 525 to military customers as a 20-passenger utility and troop transport or search and rescue (SAR) aircraft. [18]
The military version of the helicopter has been exported to nations across the world; the U.S. Army and the Royal Air Force (see Boeing Chinook (UK variants)) have been its two largest users. The civilian version of the Chinook is the Boeing Vertol 234.
In early 2002, a civilian Mi-26 was leased to recover two U.S. Army MH-47E Chinook helicopters from a mountain in Afghanistan. [4] While the second craft was too badly damaged to recover, the first was determined to be repairable and estimated to weigh 12 tonnes (26,000 lb) with fuel, rotors, and non-essential equipment removed.
Prototype heavy-lift helicopter, largest rotor at 39.6 m Mil Mi-6: 5 June 1957: 44 t: 926 Heavy transport helicopter, 35 m rotor Mil V-12 or Mi-12 10 July 1968: 105 t: 2 Largest prototype helicopter, 2 × 35 m rotors Mil Mi-26: 14 December 1977: 56 t: 316 Heaviest serial production helicopter Fairey Rotodyne: 6 November 1957: 15 t 1 Largest ...
Most-produced Western helicopter; nicknamed "Huey". UH-1Y derivative in production. 1959–1976 Bell 206 Jetranger: 8,460: manufactured at Bell plants in United States and Canada: Also made under licence by Agusta in Italy and Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation in Australia: 1966–2010 Eurocopter AS350: 7,000 + [1] France: Airbus Helicopters ...
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Following their withdrawal from military use, many CH-54s were acquired by civilian operators and thus continued to be used in this new capacity. [1] Of these, Erickson Air-Crane of Central Point, Oregon, operates the largest fleet of S-64 helicopters in the world under the name Erickson S-64 Aircrane.