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Dallas CBD Vertiport (IATA: JDB, FAA LID: 49T) is a city-owned public heliport/vertiport in the city of Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, United States. [2] [3] The facility is located at the south end of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in the Dallas Central Business District, and is claimed to be the world's largest elevated heliport/vertiport.
On May 21, 2017, Brackenridge Hospital was closed, with all hospital operations moved to the new Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas. STAR Flight was included in this transfer, with one aircraft now based at the new hospital and one aircraft still based at Dell Children's Medical Center. [18] [19]
1964 AIRSTA assists Texas Department of Health in battling an encephalitis epidemic in the Houston area. Coast Guard helicopters drop more than 10,000 pounds of insecticide. 1965 AIRSTA helicopters routinely hoist Gemini astronauts, undergoing egress training from their space capsules in the Gulf during the drills.
The City of Dallas established Hensley Field in August 1929 as a training field for Reserve pilots of the then-U.S. Army Air Corps. The facility was named for Major William N. Hensley, a flying instructor located near Dallas in the 1920s and one of the few on board the first trans-Atlantic dirigible crossing in 1919. [7]
CareFlite Bell 429 over Fort Worth, Texas. CareFlite is a nonprofit ambulance service based in Grand Prairie, Texas , which operates throughout North and Central Texas . [ 1 ] CareFlite's original namesake service is helicopter air ambulance , though today it also performs fixed-wing and ground transport.
Historic disaster. The midair collision between the Army Black Hawk helicopter and American Eagle Flight 5342 near DC’s Reagan National Airport marks the deadliest aviation disaster in the US ...
The Columbus facility is also the home of the UH-72A Lakota (military EC145), the new Army helicopter. Beginning in 2014, Airbus Helicopters will upgrade the Columbus Plant to a final assembly and test site for AS350 helicopters. The plant plans to produce up to 60 additional AS350 helicopters annually by 2016. [6]
Arizona Helicopters: United States 1970s [clarification needed] Asian Airlines: Kathmandu: Nepal 1993 Australian Helicopters: Australia Bajan Helicopters: Bridgetown: Barbados 1989 2009 Bond Air Services: Australia Bond Aviation Group: Staverton: United Kingdom 1961 2016 Bond Offshore Helicopters: Australia Boun Oum Airways: 1964 1967 Braathens ...