Global Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul: Building Legacies and Expanding Our Reach

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Part of building a global customer base requires establishing high-caliber customer service facilities (CSFs) and partnering with the best aviation facilities all throughout the world. Recently, our own facilities in Miami, FL and Piney Flats, TN reached a significant milestone by achieving FAA 145 certification for the Bell 505 Jet Ranger X. This certification allows our facilities to fully service our latest addition to the short light single-engine market.

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Ever since the Bell 505’s introduction to the market, the versatile aircraft exceeded expectations and received high demand on a global scale. But bringing a new, fresh take to the Jet Ranger family is not enough. This new generation of aircraft will need excellent facilities to ensure its long-lasting legacy, just like the original Bell 206 Jet Ranger. And an FAA 145 certification is another step to building this legacy.

Another component to successful after-market business is empowering customers to be our boots on the ground for Bell aircraft maintenance. To expand our customer service and support range, we are connecting with international aviation partners to develop their business into an Authorized Maintenance Center (AMC). Similar to CSFs, they will offer helicopter maintenance to customers in these regions for an affordable price and allow other customers to have easier access to first-rate care. At HAI Heli – Expo 2018, Bell announced that Rocky Mountain Rotors Maintenance in Montana, U.S. and Reignwood Investments in China will be the launch customers for the AMC network.

By reaching certification milestones and creating more accessible aircraft maintenance care, our Aftermarket team is building meaningful connections with customers even after a sale is made. Because for Bell, aircraft maintenance means giving you exceptional aircraft performance for a long-lasting period – no matter where you are in the world or what Bell helicopter you have.

About Bell

Thinking above and beyond is what we do. For more than 85 years, we’ve been reimagining the experience of flight – and where it can take us.

We are pioneers. We were the first to break the sound barrier and to certify a commercial helicopter. We were a part of NASA’s first lunar mission and brought advanced tiltrotor systems to market. Today, we’re defining the future of advanced air mobility.

Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas – as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Textron Inc., – we have strategic locations around the globe. And with nearly one quarter of our workforce having served, helping our military achieve their missions is a passion of ours.

Above all, our breakthrough innovations deliver exceptional experiences to our customers. Efficiently. Reliably. And always, with safety at the forefront.

About Textron

Textron Inc. is a multi-industry company that leverages its global network of aircraft, defense, industrial and finance businesses to provide customers with innovative solutions and services. Textron is known around the world for its powerful brands such as Bell, Cessna, Beechcraft, Pipistrel, Jacobsen, Kautex, Lycoming, E-Z-GO, Arctic Cat, and Textron Systems. For more information, visit: www.textron.com.

Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements which may project revenues or describe strategies, goals, outlook or other non-historical matters; these statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, changes in aircraft delivery schedules or cancellations or deferrals of orders; our ability to keep pace with our competitors in the introduction of new products and upgrades with features and technologies desired by our customers; changes in government regulations or policies on the export and import of our products; volatility in the global economy or changes in worldwide political conditions that adversely impact demand for our products; volatility in interest rates or foreign exchange rates; and risks related to our international business, including establishing and maintaining facilities in locations around the world and relying on joint venture partners, subcontractors, suppliers, representatives, consultants and other business partners in connection with international business, including in emerging market countries.

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