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The Airbus Helicopters H225 (formerly Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma) is a long-range passenger transport helicopter developed by Eurocopter as the next generation of the civilian Super Puma family. It is a twin-engined aircraft and can carry up to 24 passengers along with two crew and a cabin attendant, dependent on customer configuration.
Airbus Helicopters SAS (formerly Eurocopter S.A., trading as Eurocopter Group) is the helicopter manufacturing division of Airbus. It is the largest in the industry in terms of revenues and turbine helicopter deliveries, holding 48% of the worldwide market share as of 2020. [ 3 ]
The helicopter involved in the crash was a Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma, also known as Airbus H225, with identification number 54. It belonged to the Ukrainian State Emergency Service and was one of the 21 model H225 helicopters delivered by France between 2018 and 2021, as part of a program to modernize Ukraine's aging Soviet aircraft fleet.
The similar military Eurocopter AS532 Cougar and Eurocopter EC725 of Germany and Brazil were grounded around 7 June in response to the accident, [52] and the South Korean Surion was grounded in July 2016. [53] A Surion with similar rotor and gearbox suffered rotor separation in 2018. [54] By July 2016, 80% of the world fleet was on ground.
February 18 – A Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma helicopter (G-REDU) flying from the heliport at Aberdeen Airport to a BP Eastern Trough Area Project Oil Platform located 120 nautical miles (195 km) east of Aberdeen, Scotland was forced to ditch into the North Sea 500m short of its destination.
Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil; Eurocopter AS355 Écureuil 2; Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin; Eurocopter AS532 Cougar; Eurocopter AS565 Panther; Eurocopter EC120 Colibri; Eurocopter EC130; Eurocopter EC145; Eurocopter EC155; Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma; Eurocopter EC635; Eurocopter EC725; Eurocopter Fennec; Eurocopter MH-65 Dolphin; Eurocopter Tiger ...
2 January – Two Eurocopter EC130s collided near Sea World in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, killing four people and injuring eight. 18 January - A Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma carrying the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Denys Monastyrsky and other ministry officials, crashed at a kindergarten in Brovary, a suburb of Kyiv. The ...
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