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MD Helicopters LIVE UNITED 

"MD Helicopters, Inc. is building upon a tradition of excellence that is unmatched in the aerospace industry. MD Helicopters traces its roots back more than 50 years to when Hughes Tool Company, Aircraft Division first started to develop "light helicopters" in 1955.

Our high-performance helicopters have long been the products of choice for discriminating buyers. Our family of helicopters - the MD 500® series helicopter, MD 600N® series helicopter and MD Explorer® helicopter - is synonymous with the world's best rotorcraft.

We offer the best-quality, best-value helicopters in the world; provide state-of-the-art technology to enhance operator value; offer total support of our products wherever and whenever it's needed; and keep adapting our organization and the way we do business to build upon that tradition of excellence and to meet the expectation of our customers worldwide.

We have fielded a team of professionals who are just as committed to the communities in which we live as we are to the company in which we work. You will find MD Helicopters employees wherever there is a need for help. From "Running for the Cure," to the St. Mary's Food Bank, our employees are there.

MD Helicopters employees don't wait for a specific campaign to give to the United Way we participate year round and by so doing we LIVE UNITED."

---Art Fiacco, Director, Marketing and Communications, MD Helicopters


MD Helicopters
455 East McDowell Road, Mesa, Arizona 85215, (480) 346-6300
For more information about MD Helicopters:  www.mdhelicopters.com

 

About the Falcon Field Business District

Falcon Field Business District 

The Falcon Field Business District is an 11 square mile area that serves as an employment center for the City of Mesa. The district expands much beyond the Falcon Field Airport itself which includes over 1,000 acres of improved business and industrial parks.

To support the business district, there are more than 225,000 people within a 15-minute commute, and more than one million people residing within 30 minutes.

This business district is designed as a destination location for employment opportunities. The Boeing Company, Nammo Tally, ATK, The Timken Company, MD Helicopters, and Special Devices as well as many other companies currently have major operations there.

Falcon Field Airport

Rich in history with an eye to the future, Falcon Field Airport is home to more than 70 aviation-related businesses, including the Boeing Company and MD Helicopters.  Falcon Field will handle more than 300,000 flights in 2008 and is the sixth busiest general aviation airport in the United States (a general aviation airport has no commercial airline services).

In terms of economic impact, Falcon Field is the third largest airport in Arizona, and second largest in the Valley, according to a study released in 2004 by the Arizona Department of Transportation.  Originally opened in 1941 as a base to train Royal Air Force pilots, Falcon Field was named after the British hunting bird.  After World War II, Falcon Field, and its operation was turned over to the City of Mesa.  Falcon Field Airport employs over 1,250 people.

Today the airport is home base for more than 900 aircraft and operates two runways for air charter services and private jets.  The airport sits on over 600 acres and serves over 300,000 aircraft operations (take-offs and landings) yearly.  Falcon Field is home to over seven flight training schools, including Regional Academy, which trains commercial airline pilots for American Airlines, and Air Helicopters, which trains helicopter pilots.  Falcon Field hosts 94 onsite commerical businesses. The airport has leased, and made available, 144 of its 207 acres for additional aviation business growth.

Falcon Field is financially stable without utilizing the City of Mesa general funds used.  Instead, the airport uses approximately $1-1.5 million in federal and state grants to help fund capital improvements.