MD900 Explorer NOTAR Start Up & Takeoff - Helicopter | N902GG | Hughes |

10-30-2020 MD Helicopters MD900 Explorer Engine Start & Taking Off at the Whiteman Airport. Thank you for Watching & Please Subscribe.
Manufacturer Name: MCDONNELL DOUGLAS HELICOPTER
Model: MD-900 Explorer
MFR Year: 1995
Registration Number: N902GG
Engine Manufacturer: P&W CANADA
Engine Model: PW206A
Serial Number: 900-00023
Owner/Operator: HAWCS INTERNATIONAL
Original Owner MD Helicopter N9015Y USA
Then Vulcan Aircraft Inc at Seattle, WA N900AF
Then In Australia VH-EPX and now Hawks International
The MD Helicopters MD Explorer is a light twin utility helicopter. Designed in the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems, it is currently produced by MD Helicopters. There have been two models, the original MD 900, and its successor, the MD 902.
Variants
MD 900 Explorer
Initial Production model, powered by two Pratt & Whitney Canada PW206A (or PW206E or PW207E) turboshaft engines.
MD 901 Explorer
Civil utility transport model, powered by two Turbomeca Arrius turboshaft engines and tri-angel landing gear. McDonnel Douglas Helicopters announced that this type was available from serial number 127 and upwards. By sale of civil helicopter variants to MD Helicopters the type was not further developed. None ordered.
MD 902
Marketing name for an enhanced version with Category A approval and powered by two Pratt & Whitney Canada PW206E or PW207E.[3] Enhanced version has additional engine isolation features and changes to the Integrated Instrument Display System.[3] Older helicopters (except for the first seven built) can be modified to the enhanced version.
MH-90 Enforcer
Armed version for the United States Coast Guard flown by the Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron from 1998 to 2000.
MD 969 Combat Explorer
Armed helicopter version
Swift
A high-speed compound helicopter derived from the MD 969 being developed for the US Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program.[4] Excluded from FARA in 2019.