Bell Helicopter has sold a single Bell 412EPI to the Firefighting and Disaster Prevention Agency of Japan’s Aomori prefecture.
The helicopter is expected to entire service in early 2016, says Bell in a statement.
Aomori prefecture was the first Japanese customer to receive the Bell 312EP back in 1995.
Source: FlightGlobal.com
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