Gwinnett commissioners on Tuesday approved three contracts to replace both helicopters used by the police department’s aviation unit for less than half the cost of buying new ones.

Las Vegas police Sgt. Darin R. Garness was at the controls of the helicopter that crash landed during a training exercise Sept. 24 at North Las Vegas Airport, a police spokesman confirmed Thursday ...

Huntington Beach’s two other helicopters, also McDonnell Douglas 500N aircraft, will stay on the city’s landing pad until they’re fully inspected, said Jennifer Carey, a police spokeswoman ...

Columbus City Council voted 5-2 to spend $671,000 on high-tech equipment for a new $3.4 million police helicopter that has sat unused for over ... going with Bell instead of McDonnell Douglas, ...

McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Co. d.b.a. McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems, Mesa, Ariz., is being awarded a $23,386,014 delivery order amount as part of firm-fixed-price contract DAAH23-99-G ...

The Columbus purchase of the Bell helicopter had signaled a switch in manufacturers from McDonnell Douglas, which built the division's four other MD530Fs choppers, a make that it has been flying ...

McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company has been awarded a $9.5 million firm-fixed-price contract for post-production system support services for the Government of Kuwait, Kuwait Air Force ...

Sanford N. McDonnell, the former chief executive of McDonnell Douglas who turned his family’s troubled aerospace company into one of the country’s leading defense contractors, died March 19.

November 15, 2001 McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Co., Mesa, Ariz., is being awarded a $241,993,426 firm-fixed-price contract for the remanufacture of 35 Egyptian Air Force AH-64D Apache helicopters ...

The aviation unit purchased its two McDonnell Douglas 500E helicopters in the '90s for $1.5 million apiece — one with confiscated drug money from a now defunct fund and the other with tax ...

LONG BEACH >> With fewer cops on the ground, Long Beach police are relying more on their eyes in the sky. The city’s police helicopters, called Fox, are a “force-multiplier,&#x2… ...

CORNING, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities have released the names of two people killed when a helicopter checking power lines crashed in upstate New York. Corning Fire Chief John Tighe tells the Elmira ...