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FLIGHT International. 3 January 1974 , AiR^ffeSHSPeim LIGHT COMMERCIAL & BUSINESS Hughes 500s for Peru Four more Hughes 500C helicopters have been delivered to Servicios Aereos Amazonicas (Saasa) of Peru, bringing the 1974 total to seven; an order for another seven helicopters for Saasa is expected to be placed before the end of the year. The aircraft are col lected from Hughes' Culver City plant by a Peruvian Air Force Lockheed C-130. Saasa supplies support for the 17 oil companies which have been given exploration rights along the Colombian and Brazilian borders. Sikorsky plans civil UTTAS Sikorsky, like Boeing, its rival in the US military tactical helicopter competition, is to produce a civil version of its design as a company-funded programme. The aircraft, which has been given the designation S-70, will fly early in 1975. It will have titanium rotor blade spars with glass-fibre blade skinning and will be able to carry three crew and eleven passengers. Page success Page Airways, a major American Beech outlet, took orders for four King Airs during a five-day period in December. The orders, totalling $2-8 million include one for a Super King Air. Rogers wins sales award Rogers Aviation of Cranfield has won an award from Cessna for achieving the highest dollar volume of sales of multi-engined models among European dealers for the second year in succession. During the 1973 financial year Rogers handled the sale of two 421B Golden Eagles, two 402 Businessliners, three 340s, two 337s and a turbo-310. Lear for hail suppression A Learjet is operating from Komatipoort, Transvaal, on a weather-modification pro gramme on behalf of a tobacco farming co-operative. An external pannier allows the carriage of over 100 silver iodide flares which are used to counter the formation of hailstones in conditions of extreme instability. The work has previously been carried out with an Aztec but the use of the Lear allows operations at 35,000ft with sortie lengths of up to 3hr. The flare pannier can be reloaded in flight. Crowley expansion in New Guinea Following a major alteration to services in New Guinea, which followed the formation on November 1 of Air Niugini, many local Production of the Aerospatiale Corvette is gathering momentum at St Nazaire and the first for Air Centre is planned to be ferried to Oklahoma in March. This "Flight" photograph, taken in late December, shows the fifth and sixth aircraft in assembly. Air Alpes will take the fifth Corvette for scheduled services scheduled services are now being operated by Crowley Airways, part of the Airfast Helicopter Utilities group. Crowley has Aztecs based at five of the major towns served by Air Niugini, and its route structure includes a further 27 locations. Aztec utilisation is averaging 90hr per month, of which two thirds is achieved on scheduled services and the remainder on charter flights. Lear six-month figures high Gates Learjet reports half year sales to October 31, 1973 of $53-8 million, an increase of $21-8 million over the equivalent figure for 1972. In the 1972 May-to-October period Lear delivered 17 aircraft and this increased to 37 for the equivalent part of 1973. Scottish charters continue As was made clear in the original statement by the British Department of Trade and Industry, general-aviation activity in connection with North Sea oil exploration has not been subjected to a limited fuel allocation. Charter flights on behalf of the oil com panies have continued normally, but the operators have been notifying the fuel suppliers of the reason for each flight. This is likely to be replaced by a system of registra tion of approved charter companies such as Air Anglia, Peregrine, Site Aviation and Peters Aviation, all of whom have been active in North-East Scotland and Shetland during 1973. Limited fuel stocks have resulted in few companies being willing to fly charters for other than oil interests. Sumburgh base for medium helicopters Sumburgh airfield in the Shetland Isles is being used increasingly as a forward base for North Sea oil rig flights and it is expected that both British Airways Helicopters and Bristow Helicopters will base new aircraft there during 1974. Bristow is planning to base its fleet of five Sikorsky S-58Ts at Sumburgh rather than Aberdeen in order to be within range of new drilling platforms and BAH is expected to deploy its Bell 212 there. Helicopters are in use in Spain for supporting oil exploration, as elsewhere in Europe. This Alouette III belongs to Helicsa which has a fleet of 22 Bell, Sikorsky and Alouette models wmm
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