Robinson Helicopter will double the warranty on its R22 and R44 helicopters to two years from aircraft number 3,318 and 1,202 respectively. The milestones come this year, with production running at one a day, mostly R44s, which made up 194 of 2001 deliveries. This could increase in "the spring as we pick up to where we were a year ago", says president Frank Robinson. The firm plans an R44 upgrade with an elastomeric main-rotor hinge by year-end.
Source: Flight International
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