AgustaWestland Philadelphia Corporation, now a key facility of
Leonardo’s Helicopters Division, traces its origins to the early 1980s. The Italian manufacturer
Agusta first established a presence in Philadelphia in 1981, initially operating as a "storefront" for sales and customer support. In 1982, the company opened a service center adjacent to
Northeast Philadelphia Airport (PNE) to provide maintenance for its growing fleet in the Americas. By 1987, Agusta relocated its North American headquarters from Bucks County to this Philadelphia site, and in 1988, it consolidated its scattered regional operations into a single facility on the airport grounds.
The facility underwent a major transformation from a service center to a primary manufacturing hub following the 2000 merger of Agusta and
Westland. In 2004, the Philadelphia plant expanded to include its first final assembly line for the single-engine AW119 Koala. This was followed by the establishment of a second assembly line for the twin-engine AW139 in 2007. Following the
2016 reorganization of its parent company, Finmeccanica, into Leonardo S.p.A., the site became a central "center of excellence".
Today, the Philadelphia facility serves as the sole production location for the AW119 and a primary assembly site for the AW139 and AW169, while also hosting the final assembly line for the AW609, the world's first multi-role commercial tiltrotor.
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