Soloy Aviation Solutions

the company, soloy aviation solutions, is located in olympia, washington usa, 60 miles south of seattle and was incorporated in 1969. initially, the company pursued converting piston powered helicopters, manufactured by hiller corporation, into turbine powered aircraft. it required over 8 years to develop this conversion and received the supplemental type certificate (stc) approval by the federal aviation administration (faa) in april 1975. the company engineered, manufactured, certified, and installed these turbine conversions into over 170 piston powered hiller helicopters. most of the conversions took place in the years 1975 – 1985 and many are still in operation today. later in the 1970’s, the company duplicated its earlier successes with the hiller helicopter by applying the same conversion concept to the bell 47 helicopter. over 140 of these units were installed by operators and continue to support helicopter operations today. due to market changes soloy corporation sold these su