Bell 430 Model Helicopter

Item#: FD9-1219

This Custom Made Bell 430 Model comes with a detachable stand, a personalized inscriptions plaque and a laminated Bell Helicopter logo that adds beauty to this work of art.

Bell 430 Helicopter History:

The Bell 430 is a twin-engined light-medium helicopter built by Bell Helicopter Textron. It is a stretched and more powerful development of the Bell 230, which was itself based on the earlier Bell 222.While developing the reengined Model 222 as the 230, Bell began preliminary design work on a stretched derivative with a four-bladed main rotor in 1991. The Bell 430 was formally launched in February 1992, with two prototypes being modified from Bell 230s. The first of these flew in its new configuration on October 25, 1994, and the second prototype, featuring the full 430 avionics suite, first flew on December 19, 1994.

Production of the Bell 230 wound up in August 1995, with the first 430 production aircraft being completed that year. Canadian certification was awarded on February 23, 1996, and the first deliveries began in the middle of that year.

Between August 17 and September 3, 1996, Americans Ron Bower and John Williams broke the round the world helicopter record with a Bell 430, flying westwards from England.This is one hot Helicopter capable of aerobatics and one of the fastest civilian Helicopters on the market today.