Heli1,
Since Sikorsky bought Keystone the plan has been to move all Commercial products to Keystone and leave the main plant to build military machines.
Keystone now assemble all 76s and 92s (better known as joining) that arrive from the various out sourced contractors who build the raw airframe.
They will also carry out the completion of the aircraft to the customers specification or just sell them a green airframe. The bulk of the work is for off-shore operators but they also do VIP, paramilitary, etc.
The main problem they have faced is in manpower. Keystone was a fairly small but very good company but all of a sudden Sikorsky heaped a lot of extra work on them and they didn't have the infra-structure or manpower to cope. When we took deliver of our S76C++ you have one manager trying to run the 4 main divisions. S76 production has gone up from 30 a year to over 50.
From a customers point of view they provide a great product but the whole process is riddled with delays and poor communication due to being overloaded.
Hopefully by the time we order a S76D they will have resolved the issues.
FNW