Schweizer RSG (Booth C4420) has contracted with the Helicopter Institute to provide OEM pilot training in its S300-series rotorcraft. The Institute offers flight training from ab initio to advanced factory-approved transition and recurrency courses and is located north of Schweizer’s manufacturing facility at Fort Worth (Texas) Meacham International Airport. It took delivery of a refurbished Schweizer 300C this week and has already begun training in it.
“We are fully integrating the Schweizer 300 into all of our pilot training courses in conjunction with our existing helicopter fleet. The training quality afforded to the student when using the Schweizer 300 is widely recognized by [its] decades of use training pilots on a global scale,” said Randy Rowles, president of Helicopter Institute.
Under the agreement, Helicopter Institute will offer an OEM training course for the aircraft and make it available for flight instruction. It will also provide all official training in the S300 series for Schweizer customers when instruction is included in the aircraft purchase, including foreign agency and military sales.
Originally designated the Hughes 269, the Schweizer 300CBi was designed and manufactured as a military training aircraft. In 1984, McDonnell Douglas purchased Hughes Helicopters. Two years later, Schweizer acquired rights to the Hughes 269 series. Schweizer was purchased by Sikorsky in 2004 and sold to Schweizer RSG in 2018. Current models include the S300C, S300CBi, and S333. The company has made a number of foreign military sales in recent years, including to El Salvador and Senegal.