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WA DNR gets newly painted Huey

The Washington State Department of Natural Resources has recently taken delivery of their newly painted UH-1H Fire Fighting Helicopter. Known as “Rotor 1”, this is the first UH-1H in the fleet to carry the DNR’s new paint scheme. These helicopters are used in Fire Fighting operations throughout the State of Washington. Shown here is part of the DNR Aviation Group accepting the helicopter after it was delivered by Northwest Helicopters CEO, Brian Reynolds. Upon delivery a comment from the Department manger was quoted as saying “It’s too nice to go out on the fires”. We take that as a compliment in knowing they are pleased with the workmanship of the Northwest staff and especially painting technician, Warren Harris. The DNR has now contracted a second Helicopter to be refurbish by NWH which is underway now to be ready for this years fire season.

NW Helicopters gets Bell approval

Northwest Helicopters has recently been approved by Bell Helicopter/Textron as an Authorized Customer Service Facility. Northwest is one of only 150 Helicopter Companies in the World approved by Bell and one of only four companies in the World that has been approved in the last year by Bell to be a new CSF. This has been a long time goal of ours and we are excited about our new relationship with Bell. This goes hand in hand with our new facility and will allow us to continue the growth of our maintenance business and customer base Worldwide. Shown here is Director of Maintenance, Jeff Winner with the Bell Authorized Customer Service Facility Certificate. For more information email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

NW Helicopters Small Business Award

Northwest Helicopters has received the Small Business of the year award for 2006 from the Thurston County Economic Development Council. We are very pleased and thankful to receive this honor and thank those who nominated and voted for us. It’s a real honor to accept this award on behalf of all the Management and employees of Northwest Helicopters. For more information about the Thurston County Economic development Council see www.thurstonedc.com.

Chile Air Force deliveries continue

Chile Air Force (FACH) officers Captain Carlos Pfeiffer Ruiz and Lieutenant Gianni (Johnny) Di Giammarino Schimunek shown here accepting delivery of another Bell UH-1H on behalf of the Armed forces of their country. The FACH has ordered and taken delivery of several UH-1H Helicopters from Northwest in the last year. These ships go on to augment other UH-1’s in current service with the FACH around the world. These helicopters were completely refurbished by the technicians at Northwest back to “like new” standards and are the pride of the FACH UH-1H Fleet. This project was monitored buy the Air Force officers in Chile using our customer forum system that allows continues communication with the client 24 hours a day 7 days a week using pictures and text on every major part of the helicopter building process. For security this system is password protected so that only the FACH and the Northwest staff could view the data. We would like to thank Mr. Pablo Solis, our representative in Chile for his assistance on this project. We also want to thank our own Spanish speaking staff member here in Olympia, Mr. Sergio Aries who can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for any Spanish speaking requests. It was a great project and we look forward to a long future relationship with the Chile Air Force. You can see details of this project and others under the UH-1H Refurbishment page of our web site. For more information contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

JR Helicopters gets a UH-1H

Jason Rubright shown here on the right with his Chief Pilot Dave Bender accepting delivery of UH-1H N98NW. The Restricted Category Huey will be put into immediate service spraying crops and hover drying cherries in Eastern Washington. N98NW was received on consignment to sell and had extensive maintenance and upgrades by the Northwest staff before being offered for sale.

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