03-Feb-23 - Italian Customs Police (Guardia di Finanza) inaugurated a new Air-Naval Operations Simulation Centre at Pratica di Mari near Rome for its Leonardo AW169/AW139 helicopters and P-72B maritime patrol aircraft #Training
24-Jan-23 - Italian Customs Police ( Guardia di Finanza ) received first of 18 new Leonardo AW169M helicopters with skids landng gear. GdF already operates 6 AW169 with fixed landing gear #AW169
14-Nov-19 - Italian customs police, Guardia di Finanza, received the first of 22 AW169M helicopters ordered just one year ago. Last one scheduled to be delivered in 2024 under a 280 million euros contract #AW169M
12-Nov-18 - Italian customs police, Guardia di Finanza, orders 22 of the new variant AW169M valued € 280M to be delivered 2019-2024. Special equipped for SAR will replace current A109 and join 14 AW139 #AW169M
11-Dec-17 - Italian Coast Guard ordered 2 AW139 to be delivered by the end 2018 and Italian Customs and Border Protection Service (Guardia di Finanza) 6 more for 2020. Both replacing ageing AB412
08-Mar-17 - Vector Aerospace signed a two-year engine support contract for the Italian Guardia di Finanza’s Breda-Nardi NH500, the locally produced version of the MD500
13-Dec-16 - Italy’s Guardia di Finanza to receive six new AW139 in 2017-2019 to replace its AB412. The Customs and Border Protection Service already operates 2 helicopters of this model
