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Airbus and OCCAR Deliver Final Tiger HAD Upgrade to French Army

18-Dec-25 - Airbus and OCCAR have delivered the 30th and final Tiger HAD helicopter to the French Army, formally concluding the HAD upgrade program launched in 2017. #Tiger

First H160 Delivered to the French Gendarmerie

17-Dec-25 - The French Gendarmerie Nationale has received the first of 10 Airbus H160GN helicopters, with the acceptance process scheduled to continue until early 2027. #H160

Airbus H160M Completed First Flight

24-Jul-25 - The Airbus H160M Guépard (Cheetah), the militarised version of the H160 for the French Armed Forces, completed its first flight at Marignane. Scheduled to begin deliveries in 2028 #H160M

Airbus Racer Demonstrator First Flight

25-Apr-24 - Racer, Airbus’s high-speed helicopter demonstrator for the European Research Clean Sky 2 project, completed its first flight in Marignane, France. With a new hybrid-electric eco-mode, it can pause one of the two Aneto-1X engines, thereby contributing to the reduction of CO2 emissions #ecology

Airbus Helicopters Year 2023 Report

23-Jan-24 - In 2023 Airbus Helicopters received 410 gross orders from 179 customers in 47 countries. They completed 346 ( 344 in 2022 ) deliveries. A 54% share of the civil and parapublic market. #year2023

Airbus Testing New Electric Flight Control System

10-Oct-23 - Airbus is testing a new flight control system in its FlightLab helicopter demonstrator for future use in the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, CityAirbus NextGen #FlightLab

NHI Delivers 500th NH90

20-Mar-23 - NHIndustries celebrated the delivery of the 500th NH90. The helicopter was a NH90TTH for the French Army Aviation (ALAT)

First Flight of Airbus DisruptiveLab

31-Jan-23 - The Airbus DisruptiveLab concept demonstrator helicopter completed first flight in Marignane, France, and marks the beginning of a flight test campaign that aims to reduce carbon footprint #DisruptiveLab

Three H125 and a H145 for Ecocopter

06-Oct-22 - Chilean operator Ecocopter ordered 3 Airbus H125 and a H145 to expand its fleet In South America. They currently have 13 H125, 2 H135, and 3 EC145/H145 operating in Chile, Peru and Ecuador #Marignane

Last NH90 NFH Delivered to French Navy

05-Jan-22 - Airbus France delivered the 27th and last NH90 NFH Caiman to the French Navy #Marine

04-Jan-22	First NH90 Delivered to Qatar #NH90
10-Nov-21	First Airbus Flight with 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel
26-Apr-21	Vertex: Autonomous Features for Airbus Flightlab #FlightLab
22-Jan-21	Airbus Flightlab Demonstrator #flightlab
14-Jan-21	First Flight of All Nippon’s H160 #H160
21-Apr-20	Airbus Support During Coronavirus Pandemic #coronavirus
09-Sep-19	1000th Super Puma Delivered to Bundespolizei #SuperPuma
27-May-19	H160M Guépard to Enter Service in 2026 #H160M
18-Dec-18	Marignane Completed First Serial H160 #H160
14-Dec-18	Bundespolizei Receives First Three H215 #H215
14-Dec-17	Airbus Project Eagle Takes Flight
13-Oct-17	Third H160 Joins Flight Test Campaign
04-Jul-17	H160 Leads Industrial Transformation at Airbus
16-May-17	Airbus Helicopters Rolls Out 700th H130
12-Oct-16	Flight Testing H175 in Public Services Configuration
27-Jan-16	Second H160 Prototype Takes Off
10-Nov-15	High-Compression Engine for Higher-Performance
29-May-15	H160 Prototype Unveiled
18-Dec-14	Airbus Helicopters Launched Open Innovation platform
18-Dec-14	Flight Tests of Laser-Based Airspeed Sensor System
11-Dec-14	First Tiger HAD Block 2 to the French Army
02-Dec-14	50,000 trainees in 50 years at Airbus Helicopters
14-Nov-14	Belgium takes delivery of last NH90 TTH
12-Sep-14	Work Begins on the Marignane Development Center
08-Jul-14	EC175 full-flight simulator is ready for service
22-Apr-14	EASA certifies EC225 gear shaft redesign
16-Apr-14	EC175 Flight Navigation Procedures Trainer
27-Feb-14	First EC175 simulator at Marignane this year
24-Jun-11	Puma Mk2 helicopter makes its first flight
17-Dec-10	NH90 TTH for Spain Maiden Flight
17-Dec-09	EC175 First Flight
17-Dec-07	Tiger HAD for Spain Performed Maiden Flight
13-Sep-06	400th EC120 Delivered
12-Dec-03	NH90 Helicopter Flies Full Fly By Wire
30-Nov-00	Cougar / Super Puma MK 2+ First Flight
01-Mar-99	Alouette III Celebrates 40 Years