Company Adds UH-60 Blackhawk to Year-Round Firefighting Fleet

Helinet Aviation Services has added a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter to California's aerial firefighting fleet. The former U.S. Army helicopter is on standby at Van Nuys Airport to assist with firefighting missions under call-when-needed contracts with the U.S. Forest Service and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection CAL FIRE. The aircraft is the first of several UH-60 Blackhawks that Helinet intends on operating in the aerial firefighting market over the next few years. The addition of this specialty equipped firefighting Blackhawk augments Helinet’s existing UH-60 MovieHawk, which has worked for the past four years in the motion picture and television industry.

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