CANADA'S MIDWEST Helicopters is about to take delivery of its second Kaman K-MAX external-lift helicopter, and the company has begun negotiations to buy a third aircraft.
Midwest president Wayne Macauley says that the company will be interested in a fourth helicopter, if plans to expand operations into Mexico materialise.
"Nothing in Canada can compete [with the K-MAX]," he says, adding that Midwest has won several logging contracts because of the helicopter's low operating cost. Midwest is one of six operators of the K-MAX, each with a single helicopter.
Kaman says that it intends to build six helicopters in 1996 and another six in 1997, and claims that it has "two or three [customers] wanting each aircraft".
Source: Flight International
