Local aviation firms’ sales fly into overseas markets

In Japan, police patrol the country by helicopter. In Australia, doctors reach patients in turbo prop aircraft. And in South America, workers beat the traffic by taking to the skies.

As the use of helicopters and general aviation aircraft expands globally, two local aviation companies have tapped into overseas opportunities.

The growth of offshore oil, logging and construction industries in Asia, for example, has increased the helicopter’s role there, says Keith Steiner, marketing director of Boulder-based Air Comm Corp., a company that makes heating and air-condit ioning kits for helicopter cabins.”With…