Mi-1, the first serial-produced helicopter The first Soviet serial-produced rotorcraft was initially called the Mil helicopter-1. It performed its debut flight in 1948 and went into service in ...

In the mid-1960s they even started work on converting the Mil Mi-6 — the USSR’s largest and fastest helicopter — to carry paying passengers. Unfortunately this never got past a single ...

The Mil Mi-24 was designed to do one thing ... they became the icon of the Soviet war there (much as the UH-1 Iroquois “Huey” helicopter was emblematic of the American intervention in the ...

such as the behemoth Mil V-12 helicopter, the largest helicopter in history. This large aircraft, which could carry 105 tons, first began with OKB-329’s Mi V-6. Their mission was to create a ...

GTLK will supply two Mi-8MTV-1 helicopters to the Kolyma Aviation enterprise under the NWF project. The leasing contracts were signed as part of the GTLK investment project to upgrade the Russian ...

JSC State Transport Leasing Company (STLC) has leased five Mi-8MTV-1 helicopters. The machines were manufactured by the Russian Helicopters holding company of the Rostec State Corporation for the ...