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CareFlite Bell 429 over Fort Worth, Texas. CareFlite is a nonprofit ambulance service based in Grand Prairie, Texas , which operates throughout North and Central Texas . [ 1 ] CareFlite's original namesake service is helicopter air ambulance , though today it also performs fixed-wing and ground transport.
Garland/DFW Heloplex covers 8 acres (3.2 ha) at an elevation of 601 feet (183 m) above mean sea level.Its one helipad, H1, is 105 by 105 feet (32 × 32 m) concrete. [1]In the year ending 31 December 2012 the heliport had 36,400 general aviation and 100 air taxi operations, average 100 total per day. 15 helicopters were then based at this heliport.
The Bell V-280 Valor is a tiltrotor aircraft being developed by Bell Helicopter for the United States Army's Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program. [2] The aircraft was officially unveiled at the 2013 Army Aviation Association of America's (AAAA) Annual Professional Forum and Exposition in Fort Worth, Texas.
The helicopter division was renamed Bell Helicopter Company and in a few years, with the success of the UH-1 Huey during the Vietnam War, it had established itself as the largest division of Textron. In January 1976, Textron changed the division's name to Bell Helicopter Textron. [4] Bell Helicopter had a close association with AgustaWestland.
L.D. Bell High School Front Entrance. L.D. Bell High School opened in 1957 at a campus on Pipeline Road. Lawrence Dale Bell High School was relocated to the current campus on Brown Trail in 1965, at a site donated to the school district by Lawrence D. "Larry" Bell, Founder and President of Bell Helicopter Textron in Fort Worth.
Fort Worth Flyover is the name of a short IMAX film created for the Omni Theater at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, the first one commissioned by a specific museum. Designed to simulate flying over Fort Worth, Texas in a helicopter, the movie (and later, a 1992 update) is traditionally shown before each Omni Theater feature, in ...
Fort Worth Spinks Airport covers an area of 822 acres (333 ha) at an elevation of 700 feet (213 m) above mean sea level.It has two runways: 18R/36L is 6,002 by 100 feet (1,829 x 30 m) with an asphalt surface; 18L/36R is 3,660 by 60 feet (1,116 x 18 m) with a turf surface.
Hicks Airfield (FAA LID: T67) is a public use airport located 14 nautical miles (16 mi; 26 km) northwest of the central business district of Fort Worth, in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. [1] The airport is used solely for general aviation purposes.