Airbus Helicopters : contrat de 1,5 milliard d'euros pour 300 appareils en Corée du Sud

Press Release Airbus Helicopters selected for the partnership development of South Korea’s Light Civil and Light Armed Helicopters Seoul, 16 March 2015–Airbus Helicopters will join with Korea Aerospace Industries in developing two 5ton class rotorcraft that meet South Korea’s requirements for its nextgeneration Light Civil Helicopter (LCH) and Light Armed Helicopter (LAH). As the LCH and LAH competition winner, Airbus Helicopters will continue its highly successful relationship with Korea Aerospace Industries, including the joint program that developed Korea’s Surion twinengine utility transport helicopter. “We would like to express our deep gratitude to Korea Aerospace Industries and the South Korean government for entrusting us with this major helicopter program,”said Airbus Helicopters President Guillaume Faury.“We are committing our full support in ensuring the LCH and LAH projects will be completed on time, on cost and to specification.” Both the LCH and LAH will be based on Airbus Helicopters’H155 (formerly known as the EC155) –the latest evolution of its bestselling Dauphin family, which includes the Panther military and parapublic variants that have demonstrated their capabilities in operation around the world.