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Model History:

one of the most beautiful aircraft ever built
To amplify the comment above, the A109 was designed in the mid 1960s as a high speed, agile, turbine powered, 8 seat helicopter. The A-109 first flew 4 Aug 1971 and has appeared in several versions. A109A Hirundo became operational in 1976, the A109CSG Coast Guard version was available from late 1981, the A109 Naval is a primarily a shipborne version and the A109K is a fixed undercarriage version with Turbomeca Arriel, raher than Allison powerplants targetted at hot-and-high customers. Military orders have included the armed forces of Argentina, Iraq, Italy, Libya, UK and Venezuela.

Derivatives and Versions of this model:

ModelYearHistory
    a109c     1979 Eight seat civil version, powered by two Rolls-Royce 250C20R-1
    a109 > agustawestland 109e     2005



Organisations / Units with this Model:

    Organisation     Qty UnitsBases/Heliports
1979/now9 comando de aviación de ejercito argentino
1979/now     escuadrón de aviación de exploración y ataque 602Campo de Mayo 1979/now
1991/now46 aviation légère de la force terrestre
2000/now1 sherkate tara
2005/now11 tentara darat diraja malaysia
1981/now8 castle air charters
1982/now4 army air corps
2006/now3 royal air force




Construction Numbers of this Model:

C/NVersionBuiltHistory
    0022 1979 ghana air force G670 :
    0300 1994 aviation légère de la force terrestre H46 : Built 21 Jan 1994 as A109HA. c/s OT-AKN.
    0301 1992 aviation légère de la force terrestre H01 : Built 10 Jan 1992 as A109HO. c/s OT-ARA.
    0302 1992 aviation légère de la force terrestre H02 : Built 14 Feb 1992 as A109HO. c/s OT-ARB.
    0303 1992 aviation légère de la force terrestre H03 : Built 20 May 1992 as A109HO. c/s OT-ARC.
aviation légère de la force terrestre H03 : Dammaged during a hard landing.
    0304 1992 aviation légère de la force terrestre H04 : Built 29 Apr 1992 as A109HO. c/s OT-ARD.
    0305 1992 aviation légère de la force terrestre H05 : Built 25 May 1992 as A109HO. c/s OT-ARE.
    0306 1992 aviation légère de la force terrestre H06 : Built 30 Jun 1992 as A109HO. c/s OT-ARF.
    0307 1992 aviation légère de la force terrestre H07 : Built 14 Aug 1992 as A109HO. c/s OT-ARG.
    0308 1992 aviation légère de la force terrestre H08 : Built 31 Aug 1992 as A109HO. c/s OT-ARH.
aviation légère de la force terrestre H08 : Damaged beyond repair during a storm 29 June 2003 while with 18 BnHATk at Petrovec, Macedonia (LWSK). Arrived by road at the attrition reserve centre in Zutendaal Barracks (EBSL) on 22 Jan 2004 in two pieces.
aviation légère de la force terrestre H08 : This aircraft was not dammaged by a storm in FYROM but by a bowser truck in Bierset.
    0309 1992 aviation légère de la force terrestre H09 : Built 18 Sep 1992 as A109HO. c/s OT-ARI.
    0310 1992 aviation légère de la force terrestre H10 : Built 8 Oct 1992 as A109HO. c/s OT-ARJ.
    0311 1992 aviation légère de la force terrestre H11 : Built 24 Nov 1992 as A109HO. c/s OT-ARK.
    0312 1992 aviation légère de la force terrestre H12 : Built 10 Dec 1992 as A109HO. c/s OT-ARL.
    0313 1992 aviation légère de la force terrestre H13 : Built 21 Dec 1992 as A109HO. c/s OT-ARM.
    0314 1992 aviation légère de la force terrestre H14 : Built 18 Dec 1992 as A109HO. c/s OT-ARN.
    0315 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H15 : Built 12 Jan 1993 as A109HO. c/s OT-ARO.
    0316 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H16 : Built 9 Feb 1993 as A109HO. c/s OT-ARP. w/o 14 Jun 2003
aviation légère de la force terrestre H16 : Aircraft Dammaged by a storm in Petrovec (FYROM). Has been placed in atrition in Zuttendael.
    0317 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H17 : Built 23 Feb 1993 as A109HO. c/s OT-ARQ.
    0318 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H18 : Built 10 May 1993 as A109HO. c/s OT-ARR.
    0319 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H19 : Built 31 May 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-ATA.
aviation légère de la force terrestre H19 : 230500 17BnHATk Cat.4, during a training a formation of 4 A109 of 17BnHATK landed on the reserve base of Bertrix. During the taxiing H19 hit a row of pallets with jerrycans and flips over. Debris of the mainrotor hit the other 3 A109s (H23, H33 and H35).  A piece of 30 cm of H19s main rotor goes through the windshield of H35 at about 5 cm of the aircrew., while in another 'near miss' a jerrycan went through the legs of a marshaller. Luckily nobody or the aircrew or groundcrew got hurt. After some BDR H19 was ferried from Bertrix to Bierset, but it was a write off anyhow.
    0320 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H20 : Built 22 Apr 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-ATB.
    0321 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H21 : Built 26 Apr 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-ATC.
    0322 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H22 : Built 13 May 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-ATD.
    0323 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H23 : Built 18 May 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-ATE.
    0324 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H24 : Built 28 May 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-ATF.
    0325 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H25 : Built 31 May 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-ATG.
    0326 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H26 : Built 9 Jun 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-ATH.
    0327 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H27 : Built 18 Jun 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-ATI.
    0328 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H28 : Built 30 Jun 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-ATJ.
    0329 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H29 : Built 8 Jul 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-ATK.
    0330 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H30 : Built 9 Aug 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-ATL.
    0331 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H31 : Built 18 Aug 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-ATM.
    0332 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H32 : Built 25 Aug 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-ATN.
    0333 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H33 : Built 15 Sep 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-AKA.
    0334 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H34 : Built 27 Sep 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-AKB.
    0335 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H35 : Built 29 Sep 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-AKC.
aviation légère de la force terrestre H35 : Landinggear badly dammaged during a exercise.
    0336 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H36 : Built 15 Oct 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-AKD.
aviation légère de la force terrestre H36 : 180804 made an emergency landing in the afternoon on the military domain of Brasschaat (near Antwerp). During a training flight the aircraft was flying very low, a gust of wind brought it out of balance and the rotors hit the ground. The aircraft got seriously damaged. Nobody got hurt.
aviation légère de la force terrestre H36 : In reality, the blades hit a tank during a tactical flight....
    0337 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H37 : Built 13 Oct 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-AKE.
    0338 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H38 : Built 25 Oct 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-AKF.
    0339 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H39 : Built 3 Nov 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-AKG.
    0340 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H40 : Built 17 Nov 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-AKH.
    0341 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H41 : Built 29 Nov 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-AKI.
    0342 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H42 : Built 7 Dec 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-AKJ.
    0343 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H43 : Built 14 Dec 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-AKK.
    0344 1993 aviation légère de la force terrestre H44 : Built 20 Dec 1993 as A109HA. c/s OT-AKL. Badly damaged 13 Oct 1997 (w/o ?).
aviation légère de la force terrestre H44 : Has been repaired and flies again.
    0345 1994 aviation légère de la force terrestre H45 : Built 13 Jan 1994 as A109HA. c/s OT-AKM.
    7138 comando de aviación de ejercito argentino AE-331 : lost in malvinas/falklands
army air corps ZE411 : ex argentine army AE-331
    7144 comando de aviación de ejercito argentino AE-334 : lost in malvinas/falklands
army air corps ZE410 : ex argentine army AE-334
    7152 comando de aviación de ejercito argentino AE-337 : destroyed on ground by Sea Harriers during Malvinas/Falklands War
    50 C/N found.




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