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From Langley to SAREX: Pinal County Sheriff’s Office Puts Their Modified Helicopter to the Test

From Langley to SAREX: Pinal County Sheriff’s Office puts their modified helicopter to the test.

When the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office arrives in San Antonio this May for the Texas Search and Rescue Exercise, they won’t just be participating in a major muti-agency search and rescue exercise, they’ll be doing it with a modified aircraft suited for this type of mission.

PCSO will be flying their helicopter which was extensively upgraded with the StandardAero UH-1H3 modifications to the tailboom, cockpit, and rescue hoist facilitated out of our Langley, BC location. The UH-1H3 modification program was designed to deliver enhanced performance, reliability, and mission capability for operators who regularly face demanding Hot, High, and Heavy conditions during search and rescue, law enforcement, and disaster response operations.

SAREX provides an ideal environment for crews to train, collaborate, and demonstrate readiness ahead of hurricane season. For PCSO, it is also an opportunity to put their UH-1H3 into the kind of real-world scenarios it was modified to handle.

Seeing a customer take an aircraft we modified and apply it directly to high-stakes SAR training is exactly what this program is about. It’s a practical demonstration of how the UH-1H3 supports agencies tasked with protecting lives and communities when conditions are at their toughest.

We are proud to support PCSO and look forward to following their participation at SAREX as they represent Arizona in this important exercise.

 

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