Expectations are once again high as Helitech makes its biannual appearance on the calendar, this year running from September 23-25 at Duxford Airport, Cambridge. Project manager Sue Bradshaw said: “Helitech is a three-day exhibition which offers exhibitors and visitors a dedicated rotary-wing environment full of commercial and military exhibits with decision-makers to match from the UK, Europe and worldwide.

“This is the 10th show in the UK series begun in 1986 and the second at Duxford after many years at Redhill. 25 per cent of visitors have registered from 77 countries outside the UK, so if expanding into global markets is important to you, Helitech offers you the perfect opportunity.”

Independent market research conducted among Helitech 2001 visitors reported “no time wasters among the professional audience, strong UK/international civil audience across all sectors and excellent OEM representation”.

This year, Helitech 2003 organisers say they have made a number of marked improvements. A spokesman commented: “We’ve had an improved national and global visitor marketing campaign, attracting more military and police visitors, military vip delegations and more civil visitors; we’ve improved freight handling and logistics for those exhibitors also exhibiting in London at our

defence exhibition; and we’ve undertaken more regular direct mail and email campaigns to target prospective customers.”

Among the exhibitors this year will be Bristow Helicopters, AgustaWestland, Lloyd Helicopters, Cabair Group, Sloane Helicopters, CSE Aviation, McAlpine Helicopters, Kazan Helicopters and Patriot Aviation.

European Business Air News will also be in attendance will a full complement of staff. Not only will reporters be chasing all the

news stories, we will also have a

team filming a DVD programme

for all of our turbine-helicopter owning readers.