Aerospatiale Helicopter Corporation knowingly

• shipped and invoiced duplicate deliveries against completed orders to the government agency,

• shipped and delivered invoices to the government agency for more than the quantities on order.

• substituted, shipped and invoiced unapproved parts different than those on order without disclosure, explaination or government change approval.

• AHC's parent company, ADH, was substituting and shipping parts for the entire "green ship" helicopter, just as Avco Lycoming was doing with the engine.

• hid the fact of that they left obsoleted parts on Coast Guard shelves at 19 sites across the world which became unrecognizable within the government system of "alternate parts", "superceded parts", and "defective parts". No disclosure was made, no explaination was given for the change and no approval was requested nor received during the years that it was covertly done.

• AHC maintained a list of the TOP 50 FAILURES, had meetings about them, but had the company and Coast Guard pilots and crews fly in these helicopters, without making them aware of the outrageous failure rates in manufacturing, production, testing and flight test.

• Never disclosed the "Safety of Flight" failures to the FAA so other users of similar defective equipment could be warned.

ADH, AHC, and AVCO did this knowingly and intentionally. This was intentional deception and fraud on a constant basis. This was not an accident, an oversight, or an error as they claimed.

AHC kept a record of the very bad systems and items identified during production and testing and endangered everyones' lives by knowing that these systems failed horribly but systematically covered it up.

AHC kept a list of the TOP 50 FAILURES by helicopter model number and kept it secret even inhouse at AHC. It included the major avionic systems and the engine systems.

When discovered by Ballew, this information was provided to the FBI and DOJ, and they never announced it in public. No one in the general public or the Coast Guard pilots and crews was given a way to protect themselves from the dangers of an inflight failure of these systems.

The ultimate insult to the men and women of the armed services was delivered in the Department of Justice Press Release # 90 - 276, dated July 11, 1990. The Department of Justice management used the following evasive wording to give the impression that AHC and it's parent company had done nothing wrong even though it forfeited $26,000,000.00+ in claims against the government, exactly fourteen days after this press release and in an unrelated Department of Transportation Board of Contract Appeals:

"Ballew also named Aerospatiale Helicopter Corporation, the helicopter's manufacturer, as a defendant. However, no evidence was discovered to suggest that Aerospatiale participated in Textron Lycoming's misconduct."