After seven years of development, Peter and Leanne Maloney of Composite Helicopters made their first appearance at AirVenture to promote their five to six place kit helicopter, the KC518 Adventourer. Carbon fiber and Kevlar composite construction with power from a single turbine engine (either the RR250 C20B/J or the RR250 C18/T63) make for a potentially [...]

The 2012 Safari 400 kit helicopter appeared at AirVenture this year with loads of new standard features. Among them are a more robust rotor head with longer bearing life, increased useful load, a new blade plate design with adjustable lead/lag, titanium tail rotor blades, rotor speed governor, electric cyclic trim, collective friction, leather seats, carpet, [...]

For a limited time, buyers of the Hummingbird heli kit from Vertical Aviation will receive a $5000 discount off the list price along with a free full glass cockpit Electronic Flight Instrumentation System (EFIS) valued at $6879. The glass cockpit panel includes all engine monitoring instruments and artificial horizon, turn and bank, vertical speed, airspeed, [...]