Metro delivers H125 to Texas Game Wardens

Metro Aviation recently delivered a new H125 to the Texas Game Wardens, a division of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The Texas Game Wardens have used aviation assets since 1930. This new aircraft joins their existing H125 and the two new Cessna fixed-wing aircraft on the way.

“With the delivery of the new 2023 Airbus H125 completed by Metro Aviation, along with our 2014 H125, we will have a strong fleet of A-Star helicopters in the Texas Parks and Wildlife Aviation Unit,” said Game Warden Chief Pilot Brandon Rose.

Metro Aviation equipped the new aircraft with a cargo swing, an L3Harris WESCAM thermal imager and moving map, an XM radio and audio, and a searchlight. These additions, along with other mission-essential equipment such as a 17in touchscreen monitor, programmable video switch with push button source switching, flip-down 10in monitor, a data converter to cross-fill point data from the moving map to the Garmin NAV/COMM, PA loudhailer, Flightcell DZMx and sat phone, Garmin traffic computer, and state-of-the-art Garmin autopilot, significantly enhance the aircraft’s capabilities.

The Game Wardens are responsible for conservation law enforcement, search and rescue missions, aerial firefighting, and more.

There has been a recent call for more aerial firefighting assets in the state of Texas to combat increasing incidents of wildfires.