{"id":46,"date":"2011-02-10T15:21:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=46"},"modified":"2011-02-10T15:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:21:10","slug":"bell-helicopter-delivers-first-429-into-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Bell Helicopter delivers first 429 into India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bell Helicopter has announced the first delivery of a Bell 429 helicopter to a customer in India. The announcement took place at the biennial Aero India air show where the company has the aircraft on display.<br \/>\nThe customer, Span Air, is headquartered in New Delhi and is one of the region\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most prominent air charter operators, offering a mix of jets and Bell helicopters.<br \/>\nThe addition of the new Bell 429 to Span Air\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fleet will allow the operator to offer customers superior speed and range, the ability to land in remote areas, along with an expansive and impeccably-appointed cabin.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In every way, the acquisition of the Bell 429 for operations in India makes excellent business sense,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Capt. Sudhir Malik, COO, Span Air. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The aircraft\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s performance capabilities make it ideal for the challenging operating environment presented by India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s weather and geography.<br \/>\nThe 429 is also equipped with all the latest safety features and offers the legendary reliability of Bell helicopters, something we have already experienced with our other Bell aircraft.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nThe Bell 429, the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s newest and most advanced light twin-engine helicopter, has been designed, built and certified to the most stringent airworthiness standards.<br \/>\n09\/02\/11 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shephard.co.uk\/news\/rotorhub\/bell-helicopter-delivers-first-429-into-india\/8293\/\">Shephard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bell Helicopter has announced the first delivery of a Bell 429 helicopter to a customer in India. The announcement took place at the biennial Aero India air show where the company has the aircraft on display. The customer, Span Air, is headquartered in New Delhi and is one of the region\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most prominent air charter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,48,50,9],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bell","tag-bell-429","tag-span-air","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}