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Lishui-built helicopter enters China's civil aviation market chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: May 7, 2022 L M S The sky's the limit with the VA115 coaxial twin-rotor helicopter, being produced in Lishui. It's just got a CAAC certificate, allowing it to be sold. [Photo/lsnews.com.cn] Sales of the VA115 coaxial twin-rotor helicopter being produced by RS Helikopter GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of AviComms Technologies Co Ltd – based in Lishui city in East China's Zhejiang province – are soon expected to take off. That's after the Civil Aviation Administration of China, or CAAC, recently issued a certificate for the eye-catching model's entry into the domestic civil aviation market. The VA115 is a single-seat manned helicopter with an empty weight of about 139 kilograms and a maximum takeoff weight of 260 kg, including an effective payload of 121 kg. The maximum airspeed is 140 kilometers per hour and the maximum range is 220 km. The VA115 has adopted a German-paten...