Category: Helicopters

AgustaWestland has unveiled the world’s first electric tilt-rotor to demonstrate what the company sees as the future of rotorcraft. The hitherto secret ‘Project Zero’ made its first unmanned tethered flight in June 2011 at AugstaWestland’s Cascina Costa facility in Italy and has since performed several untethered hover flights inside a ‘secured area,’ the company says.

The S-92 global helicopter fleet has surpassed 500,000 flight hours. “In the nine years that the S-92 has been steadily carving its place in the large helicopter market segment, it has grown from the ‘new kid on the block’ proving its potential to a super performer in a variety of missions,” said Carey Bond, President

Eurocopter posted record turnover of EUR6.3 billion in 2012 – a 15 per cent increase over the previous year – returning the company to pre-GFC levels. The company delivered 475 helicopters last year alongside milestones that included the delivery of its 500th EC145, its first AS350 B3e and EC130 T2 uprated versions of the Ecureuil, and

Embraer and AgustaWestland have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a joint-venture company to produce AgustaWestland helicopters in Brazil. The aircraft would be marketed to commercial and military operators. The two companies said preliminary studies show strong potential for twin-engine, medium-lift helicopters in the offshore oil and gas market. This content is available exclusively