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The station is located near Fort Worth's border with Hurst, 1 ⁄ 4 mile (0.40 km) south of Hurst Boulevard (SH 10). The station serves the headquarters and main plant of aerospace manufacturer Bell Textron. Trinity Metro previously operated an employee shuttle to two additional Bell Textron facilities in the area, which was discontinued in ...
Bell Helicopter Textron (customer acceptance center) Drug Enforcement Administration (aviation operations center) DynCorp International (main operations center) FedEx (southwest regional sorting hub; FedEx also operates from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport's east cargo facility)
At the time there were 45 aircraft based at this airport: 21 single-engine, 15 multi-engine, 8 jet and 1 helicopter. [2] International Aerospace Coatings has an aircraft painting facility located on the airport; Bell Textron assembly plant located here; many American Airlines and United Airlines jetliners are painted there.
Huge news for Fort Worth: The Army chose Bell Textron over Lockheed Martin and others to develop the next generation of combat aircraft, based on Bell’s V-280 Valor tiltrotor.
The Bell Aircraft Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer, a builder of several types of fighter aircraft for World War II but most famous for the Bell X-1, the first supersonic aircraft, and for the development and production of many important civilian and military helicopters.
The helicopter division was renamed Bell Helicopter Company and in a few years, with the success of the UH-1 Huey during the Vietnam War, it had established itself as the largest division of Textron. In January 1976, Textron changed the division's name to Bell Helicopter Textron. [4] Bell Helicopter had a close association with AgustaWestland.
Bell announced its new project after the Bell 429 and Bell V-22, the super medium Bell 525, previously it was known as Project X or Magellan. The Helicopter is overall designed for trips of 50 to 500 nautical miles, and has a 5-blade main rotor powered by twin engines, digital controls and Garmin G5000H screen, with planned seating for 16-20 people. [3]
Bell Helicopter Textron landed a sizable Pentagon contract in support of two U.S. allies Tuesday. Specifically, Textron was awarded a foreign military sales contract worth up to $85.4 million to ...