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NH Industries NH90



The NH90 program is handled by NH Industries while production shares of the 3 Partner Companies involved are 32.00% for AgustaWestland – Italy, 62.50% for Eurocopter – France and Germany, and 5.50% for Fokker Aerospace - The Netherlands.

The NH90 was intended to being developed in two variants: the Tactical Transport Helicopter (TTH) and the NATO Frigate Helicopter (NFH), the program had some technical and funds problems at the end of the 90s, but a large production order was launched on July 2000 by the partner countries

The main serial production NH90 are born from 3 assembly lines of the NHIndustries Partner Companies community: Cascina Costa in Italy for AgustaWestland, Marignane in France and Donauwörth in Germany for Eurocopter although the Finnish and Australian contracts establish that theirs airframes w would be assembled locally.

By 2005, the NH90 logbook shows a total of 357 firm orders, 86 options and 45+ selected NH90, by 13 countries and for 17 Armed Forces.




Thanks jag3rnaut



First Flight : Dec. 18, 1995

Crew: 2 + 20

Engines: 2 * 1830 shp turboshafts [ MTU/Rolls-Royce/Turbomeca MTR322 or General Electric T700-T6E ]
Speed : Max 300 km/h
Rate of climb: 480 m/min
Endurance: 5 h 30 min
Weight: Empty: 5400 kg -- Max: 8700
Rotor Span: 16 m
Length: 19 m
Height: 5.5 m



Contribution: Michael Koellner

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Related News:
NH90 Helicopter- 4th Prototype in Flight Jun 1, 1999
Europe will manage NH90 Apr 18, 2000
Rolls-Royce Turbomeca engines for NH90 Jun 8, 2000
Production go-ahead for the NH90 Programme Jun 8, 2000
General Electric engines for italians NH90s Jun 9, 2000
Eurocopter confirms 243 NH90 order Jun 30, 2000
NH90: Go ahead for 1st Batch of 298 helicopters Jul 5, 2000
NH90 engine completes overtemperature test Jan 15, 2001
Portugal joins the NH90 Programme Jun 21, 2001
NHSP selects for Finland, Norway and Sweden Sep 13, 2001
Sweden signs the contract for 25 NH90 Sep 26, 2001
Finland signs the contract for 20 NH90 Oct 19, 2001
Norway signs the contract for 24 NH90 Nov 30, 2001
Spain Selects 45 NH90 Helicopters as First Batch for its Armed Forces May 23, 2005
Australian Government Orders 12 NH90 Helicopters Jun 2, 2005
First Flight Of The Hellenic Multirole NH90 Jul 13, 2005
First Finnish Finnish Patria - Assembled NH90 Takes Off Jul 13, 2005
Belgium Selects The NH90 Helicopter Dec 14, 2005
Italian Navy NH90 First Flight Dec 20, 2005
34 NH90 Additional Helicopters for Australia Jun 19, 2006
Royal New Zealand Air Force places firm order for 9 NH-90s Jul 31, 2006
Hellenic Eurocopter programs update Oct 3, 2006
First three NH90 TTH toa German Army Dec 13, 2006
Belgian Government orders ten NH90 helicopters May 2, 2007
First NH90 TTH for Oman Maiden Flight May 9, 2007
Italian Army takes Delivery of its First NH90 Jan 08, 2008

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