Originally Posted by
PANews
The worlds stock of MD530 helicopters is suddenly diminished. A few years ago (when she was in charge at Mesa) Lynn Tilton kicked aside all/most of the civil market aspirations of MDHI and went with the DoD military deal that was going to save the company. The result has been that most of recent production has been the military airframes for the Afghan Air Force. True there have been a few military sales to such as Nigeria but the bulk was Afghan.
The North Koreans got their hands on a few of the earlier model back in the 1980s.
https://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-g...090000711.html