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First flight for Airbus Helicopter VSR700 prototype UAS

The prototype of Airbus Helicopters’ VSR700 unmanned aerial system has performed its first flight at a drone test centre near Aix-en-Provence in the south of France. The VSR700 performed several take-offs and l... Read More...

Airbus Helicopters delivers first NH-90 Sea Lion to the German Armed Forces (Navy)

Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first NH-90 Sea Lion naval multi-role helicopter to the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw), with a further two t... Read More...

Airbus Helicopters H145+H135 DRF Luftrettung @ Patrick Heinz

DRF Luftrettung to take off with H145 five-bladed rotors

Upgrade to H 145 Retrofit in own Service Center from the end of 2020

From the fourth quarter of 2020, DRF Luftrettung, air rescue organization, will modify its H 145 helicopters from four to five rotor blades. As soon as the approval procedure at Airbus Helicopters has been comp... Read More...

Airbus H125 Polizei Federal Ministry of the Interior Austria

Airbus H125 helicopters enter Austrian Ministry of Interior service

Austria’s Ministry of the Interior (BMI - Bundesministerium für Inneres) has formally introduced into service two Airbus H125 helicopters extensively equipped for law enforcement and rescue missions. The aircra... Read More...

Flight testing begins for the first H225Ms for Kuwait

The first H225Ms to be delivered to Kuwait later this year have started flight testing. Kuwait ordered 30 of the long-range multi-role H225Ms in August 2016. They will be operated by the Kuwait Air Force and th... Read More...

Air Greenland selects Airbus H225 helicopter for search and rescue

Air Greenland has ordered two Airbus H225 heavy helicopters to support its bid to win its home country’s search and rescue (SAR) contract. Under the terms of a firm contract assisted by Airbus Helicopters, t... Read More...

The new Airbus H145 five blades lands on top of the Andes

This is the first time a twin-engine helicopter has landed at this altitude

Airbus Helicopters has reached new heights: the latest version of the H145 has set its skids down on the Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Southern Hemisphere, culminating at 6,962 metres (22,840 feet). Th... Read More...

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Airbus delivers 1000th Super Puma helicopter to the German Federal Police

The Bundespolizei is one of the largest Super Puma operators in the world

Airbus Helicopters has delivered its 1,000th Super Puma helicopter: a twin-engine multi-role H215 assembled in Marignane, France, and handed over to the German Federal Police (Bundespolizei) to support the Germ... Read More...

First Airbus H145 helicopter for New Zealand Emergency Medical Services

Airbus has delivered two H145 helicopters to the New Zealand Helicopter Emergency Medical Services at a ceremony at the GCH Aviation Group headquarters. Airbus Australia Pacific Managing Director Andrew Mathews... Read More...

China’s first Airbus H215 helicopter delivered to SGGAC for utility missions

China’s State Grid General Aviation Company (SGGAC) has taken delivery of one heavy twin-engine Airbus H215 helicopter – a member of the mission-proven Super Puma family – becoming the launch customer for the H... Read More...

Second NH-90 Sea Lion prototype completes maiden flight

The second prototype of the NH-90 Sea Lion commissioned by the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (Bundesamt für Ausrüstung, Informationstechnik und Nutzung de... Read More...

Bye Bye "Atlantic": a 45-year history

Hellenic Air Force 338 Mira “Ares”: the last Phantom over the Aegean

Hellenic Air Force: 120 Training Wing Kalamata, where Eagles soar

MAKS 2019: Russian airshow at Zhukovsky

Payerne air base: exercise Epervier 2019

Exercise Anatolian Eagle 2019

The Rega base in Geneva – HEMS with EC135 T2+

Second NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance RQ-4D Phoenix arrives in Sigonella, Italy

NATO Secretary General visits Alliance Ground Surveillance aircraft in Italy

Italian Leonardo’s Falco Xplorer drone aicraft completes first flight

US Navy chooses Leonardo’s italian TH-73 as the new training helicopter

USAF F-16 aggressors from 18th AGRS fly south for mobile training

New HH-60W combat rescue helicopter enters anechoic chamber for defense systems testing at J-PRIMES facility Eglin AFB

Hill’s AFB F-35As conduct massive combat power exercise with 52 aircraft Elephant Walk

A British Airways' 747 in heritage BOAC design

ATTOL Autonomous Taxi, Take-Off & Landing: Airbus demonstrates first fully automatic vision-based take-off

The Airbus BelugaXL has entered into service with its first operational flight

Airbus delivers strong 2019 commercial aircraft performance with 863 aircraft deliveries

Avion Express reached record production results in 2019

Dubai Airshow 2019 closes to acclaim

Pilatus Delivers 1700th PC-12 to Jetfly Aviation