Bell Helicopter has quietly called time on one its longest running and most iconic programmes, with assembly of the 206 series due to end in the first half of 2017. The airframer feels that with the ...

Bell Helicopter’s Model 206 Jet Ranger is iconic. Around 8,500 aircraft were produced, in multiple civil and military variants. But the company stopped building the five-seat 206B in 2010, to focus on ...

Bell Helicopter said Thursday it would assemble its 505 Jet Ranger X in Mirabel, Canada, and abandon plans to build the new-model aircraft at a $26.3 million Lafayette facility that Louisiana financed ...

Bell Helicopter has announced new customer commitments for 14 new Bell 505 Jet Ranger X helicopters in the region, with nine coming during the 8th Africa Aerospace and Defense (AAD) show in Tshwane, ...

Bell Helicopter says it will assemble its 505 Jet Ranger X in Canada, and abandon plans to build the new-model aircraft at a $26.3 million Lafayette facility. Louisiana financed the facility and was ...

Replacing an icon of the rotorcraft industry was never going to be easy. Since its arrival in the mid-1960s the Bell Helicopter 206 Jet Ranger had dominated – if not invented – the market for light, ...

Less than a month after Bell Helicopter announced that it was relocating its Bell 505 Jet X Ranger manufacturing operation away from Lafayette, the company announced Monday that it’s debuting the ...

A 2023 Bell 505 Jet Ranger X helicopter with only 70 flight hours is the Aircraft For Sale "Top Pick." This nearly-new aircraft features advanced Garmin G1000H NXi avionics, a premium interior, and ...

Less than a year after opening its 82,300-square-foot manufacturing facility, Bell Helicopter is changing which products it will build in Lafayette. In a conference call Thursday afternoon, the ...

In the recently concluded September quarter, Bell’s commercial helicopter deliveries fell significantly due to weak global demand. Bell helicopters is the largest unit of Textron constituting about a ...

The initial 505 Jet Ranger Xs in Europe will be put into corporate operations. The first two Bell 505s slated for European customers were handed over on January 29 at Bell Helicopter's factory in ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, is pleased to announce that its Bell 505 Jet Ranger X has been certified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The ...