Century Heli
Senior Heliman
Location: CA. USA
| Dear valued helicopter pilots,
In the past year, Century Helicopter Products has been facing difficulties in production as well as legal matters, effecting the availability of kits and replacement parts for many of our high end product line. The lower priced end which would be the culmination of the Hummingbird line, Swifts, and Hawks along with Scale mechanics and fuselages have been available and we've met most of the demand. In regards to the Scale helicopters, we are currently in talks with Bell Textron and this has moved into the courtroom. We are not anticipating this battle to end very soon but at this moment, there is an injunction on the sales of anything that is Bell related. This has put our Bell 222, Jet Ranger, and Long Ranger fuselages on hold indefinitely until the legal matters are finalized. Aside from the Scale fuselages we have been extremely busy working on bringing our factory up to speed and become 100% operational. You may ask why we had to build a new manufacturing facility? In order for us to offer you guys a high quality product at an affordable price, stay competitive and keep up with demand, we were forced to expand. We at Century Helicopter Products did not anticipate the kind of effect on product availability and customer loyalty with the shutdown of it's previous facility. This resulted in kits and parts being out of stock but still trickling in as our previous manufacturing facility was not 100% operational. Due to these issues and the long delays and hurdles we had to go through to open up our new facility, we believe it has tainted our reputation as a manufacturer that cannot keep parts and kits in stock. The whole intent of opening a new improved and much larger manufacturing facility was to counter this yet it added fuel to the fire. We're truly sorry if this has caused any delays in your projects or kept you from enjoying this wonderful hobby. After all the wait and anticipation, we are proud to announce that the light at the end of the tunnel is very near. With the Predator line of helicopters, we have changed quite a bit of the tooling for the plastic parts and improved some of the aluminum and steel items. This thought process trickles down throughout the entire Century product lineup. What this means for you as the customer are more robust machines, better fitting parts, and innovative engineering. Within the next 10 days, we anticipate all the replacement parts to be in stock for the Predator line. The Predator line which includes the new Predator Freestyle SE, Predator MAX 90, and Predator Gasser, and Predator Condor Gasser is expected to ship within the next few days. With this timeline, we are expecting the Predator shipment to be in our distribution warehouse in 40 days due to the shipment traveling by surface from overseas. It's been a long road and we would like to thank those who had the patience to hang in there with us.
Sincerely,
Team Century |
