Bell Helicopter’s Model 206 Jet Ranger is iconic. Around 8,500 aircraft were produced, in multiple civil and military variants. But the company stopped building the five-seat 206B in 2010, to ...

Bell Helicopter has quietly called time on one its longest running and most iconic programmes, with assembly of the 206 series due to end in the first half of 2017.

The Bell 505 Jet Ranger X fuselage consists of a blend of metal and composite materials while the tail boom is all metal.| Also aiding the pilot and copilot with entering the helicopter are the ...

In the mid-1960s, Bell Helicopter started design work on the Model 206 JetRanger, a commercial, light-turbine helicopter that revolutionized rotorcraft operations during the next three-plus decades.

Robb Report shares our top light-helicopter picks from Bell Flight to Guimbal that showcase modern design efficiency, ... The winning Bell YOH-4, which later became the Bell 206 Jet Ranger, ...

A Bell 505 Jet Ranger X has been delivered to the Fort Worth Police Department at Meacham Airport. ... Fort Worth police also operate two Bell 206 Jet Ranger helicopters.

Contractor: Bell Helicopter Textron. Service: United States Navy. Speed: 138 miles (222 km) per hour maximum; ... The TH-57 is a derivative of the commercial Bell Jet Ranger 206.

Joe Priester, a former U.S. Army attack helicopter pilot with more than 3,300 flight in hours in the OH-58D (another derivative of the Bell 206 which served the Army from the mid-1980s through ...

The sightseeing helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday, killing six people, was a Bell 206L LongRanger, a common single-engine aircraft long used for law enforcement missions ...