Bell Wins $173M Sub-contract for RESET of USMC Helicopters

UH-1N, Anbar, Iraq(click to view full) Bell Helicopter subsidiary Bell Aerospace Services Inc. (BellAero), just announced a multi-year sub-contract worth up to $173 million from PKL Services Inc of Poway, CA. The PKL, BellAero, and JK Hill team will provide selected organizational-level RESET maintenance for the USMC’s Lot 3 (AH-1W Cobra attack, UH-1N utility, and CH-53D/E heavy transport) and Lot 4 (very aged CH-46E transport) helicopters at multiple locations around the world. As is customary for these sorts of RESET programs, The USMC’s helicopter project involves a combination of inspection, cleaning, corrosion treatment, servicing, full disassembly and reassembly, repair and select mandatory replacement of parts. CH-46E, Somalia, 1991(click to view full) In 2005, Bell acquired US helicopter, one of the world’s top centers for maintenance and modification of H-1 Huey helicopters. BellAero currently runs a number of turnkey support projects for various branches of the US military, but this is their first contracted opportunity to support Boeing (CH-46) and Sikorsky (CH-53) platforms, in addition to Bell Helicopters’ own machines. Bell Textron release.