Last year AgustaWestland pushed ahead with maximum gross weight to be increased by 600 kg of extra payload when combined with new baseline aircraft and kit improvements that are being introduced on new aircraft this year, giving a typical weight saving increased gross weight kit to enhance their aircraft’s capabilities.
safety standards while marking the operational readiness of helicopters have been ordered by customers around the world to date, including framework contracts and options, with over 20 orders for customers in Brazil alone,” said an AgustaWestland spokesperson. A second AW169 Philadelphia facility. Deliveries from this plant will align with
beginning of deliveries to U.S. customers. Currently about 20 AW189s are operating around the world, including in such challenging environments as the North Sea, Middle U.S. customer to operate the AW189 in the Gulf of Mexico.
Plans for this year are to continue the momentum from 2015. well,” said the spokesperson.
Then there is the AW609 TiltRotor. This third prototype will be relocated to Philadelphia to prepare for icing trials, as
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The fourth prototype will also undergo assembly in Philadelphia.
The tragic October 2015 crash of AgustaWestland’s second prototype AW609, which killed two test pilots, has left the company without a test aircraft in Italy. fully committed to mitigating any delay that our recent tragic accident, and the subsequent investigation, might have on the program itself,” stated the company.
Nearly 60 orders have been placed for the AW609 to delivered to customers in 2018. The UAE Joint Aviation program, by contracting for up to six AW609s (three
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