Bell 525

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 10:36 PM ET

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Key Takeaways:

The Bell 525 helicopter was developed over a decade with customer input, targeting markets such as offshore oil, search and rescue, corporate transport, and emergency medical operations.
It features a clean-sheet design with an array of innovative technologies, including triple-redundant fly-by-wire flight control, advanced touchscreen displays, and next-generation powerplants.
The helicopter is equipped with the new Garmin G5000H avionics suite, offering advanced capabilities like graphical systems management, voice control, data logging, and synthetic vision.

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The Bell 525 comes equipped with ground-breaking features galore.

Bell 525 — **The helicopter, which was designed over the course of approximately a decade with the assistance of select customers, will be marketed toward the offshore oil industry, search and rescue operators, corporate/executive transport and emergency medical operations. **

Bell 525 — ** A clean sheet design, the Bell 525 model breaks new ground with an entire slate of innovative features, from triple-redundant fly-by-wire flight control to advanced touchscreen-control displays to next-gen fadec powerplants to advanced rotor blade airframe technology to hybrid materials design.**

Bell 525 — The Bell 525 also features the brand new Garmin G5000H avionics suite, which will set a high bar in helicopter electronics capability, including extensive graphical systems management, voice control, data logging, synthetic vision and cutting edge communications capabilities.

G5000H — The G5000H is the helicopter version of Garmin’s G5000 flat-panel avionics system, launched on another Textron product, the Citation Ten, in 2010. **For more, check out Robert Goyer’s story, “Bell 525 Relentless Redefines Heli Market.“
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