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Marine CH-53Es and CH-46Es carried US Army Rangers and Special Operations troops on a mission to rescue captured Army Private Jessica Lynch on 1 April 2003. [28] As of 2014, about 150 CH-53E helicopters were in service with the Marines and another 28 MH-53Es were in service with the U.S Navy. The CH-53 requires 44 maintenance hours per flight hour.
A Eurocopter AS350 of Heli Air Monaco flying over the Vista Palace Hotel in Monte Carlo. This is a list of helicopter airlines. These are notable airlines which provide transport for passengers or cargo, or both, with fleets that comprise a significant proportion of helicopters.
After the war he founded, in south-west England, the airline that became Western Airways Ltd, which shortly before World War II was the world's busiest airline. During the war, he worked for the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), going to the US to recruit women pilots for the organisation. [ 1 ]
The largest airlines in the world can be measured in several ways. As of 2025, United Airlines was the largest by fleet size and Passenger destinations served; Delta Air Lines was the largest by revenue, assets, market, and brand value; American Airlines Group by passengers carried and employees; FedEx Express by freight tonne-kilometers; Southwest Airlines by routes; and Turkish Airlines by ...
Year of foundation: 1923 First flight: July 1923 Passengers transported in 2022: 20.5 million A flight from Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod carrying six people (four passengers and two crewmen) on a ...
The airline was created by the merger of Deutscher Aero Lloyd, formerly Deutsche Luft-Reederei (1917 to 1923), and Junkers Luftverkehr (c. 1919) in 1926. [5] The two companies, Germany's largest airlines at the time, were forced to merge by the German government, while all other airlines were shut down.
Largest prototype helicopter, 2 × 35 m rotors Mil Mi-26: 14 December 1977: 56 t: 316 Heaviest serial production helicopter Fairey Rotodyne: 6 November 1957: 15 t 1 Largest gyrodyne. Prototype for 40 passengers Kamov Ka-22: 15 August 1959: 42.5 t 4 composite rotorcraft Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey: 19 March 1989: 21.5 t 400 First operational VTOL ...
An American Airlines flight that originated in Wichita crashed just miles short of its destination at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., after it collided with a military helicopter.