Jessica is Executive Editor of Business & Commercial Aviation magazine. She started as Editor of ShowNews Online, Aviation Week's on-site trade show daily published at the Paris Air Show, NBAA Annual Convention, Singapore Air Show and at other significant aerospace gatherings.
Jessica has worked in television production and management consulting. While not yet a licensed pilot, Ms. Salerno has received flight instruction and has soloed.
Advanced Helicopter Services has opened a new regional helicopter support location at the Provo, Utah, airport. The satellite maintenance facility will support a broad range of aircraft maintenance capabilities for a number of helicopter models and mission profiles, it said. Advanced Helicopter Systems is a maintenance, repair and overhaul, or MRO, provider based at the Watts-Woodland airport northwest of Sacramento, California. The company recently acquired Cascade Helicopter Services in Seattle to enhance its services.
MD Helicopters owner Lynn Tilton says 2014 looks to be one of the company’s most successful years, with deliveries of 60 single-engine MD500 and MD600 helicopters and seven MD902s.
The 2014 Asia Pacific Helicopter Fleet Report released at the HAI convention by the Hong Kong-based Asia Sky Group (ASG) aviation consultancy, noted that the civil piston and turbine-engine helicopter fleet in the Asia-Pacific region grew 9% last year to 2,463 aircraft. Leading that growth was Greater China whose fleet soared 29%, or by 149 aircraft, to 655 helicopters last year. While Japan has the largest civil helicopter fleet with 800 rotorcraft, growth there last year was a slow 3%.
