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
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
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
20-Mar-23 - NHIndustries celebrated the delivery of the 500th NH90. The helicopter was a NH90TTH for the French Army Aviation (ALAT)
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
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
05-Jan-22 - Airbus France delivered the 27th and last NH90 NFH Caiman to the French Navy #Marine
04-Jan-22 - NHI delivered the first NH90 TTH and NFH helicopters to the Qatar Emiri Air Force. Leonardo Italy delivered the first navalized helicopter and Airbus France the first one for land operations #NH90
10-Nov-21 - In Marignane France, Airbus performed the first ever helicopter flight with 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) with an H225 powering one of the two Safran Makila 2 engines with the biofuel
26-Apr-21 - Project Vertex adds vision-based sensors, high performance computing capabilities and advanced image processing technology to the Airbus Flightlab helicopter offering a new level of situational awareness #FlightLab
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