Eurocopter SAS EC225 and AS332 helicopters, models used widely in the oil and gas industry, are subject to over-water flight restrictions in Europe following two North Sea ditchings this year.

Eurocopter has begun design work on a new helicopter that will incorporate the high-speed technology used in its X3 demonstrator. CEO Lutz Bertling told journalists at the company’s annual press ...

Eurocopter, meanwhile, has made private aviation a focus from the start. Still, the EC 135 has never really been thought of as an executive helicopter — at least not as its raison d’être.

European safety authorities have imposed checks or restrictions on two types of helicopter built by EADS subsidiary Eurocopter after separate incidents related to cracking, according to published ...

The Franco-German-Spanish group aims to increase the Eurocopter fleet in Thailand to 50 aircraft in the next two years from 35 now, said Derek Sharples, chief executive of Eurocopter South East Asia.

The EADS subsidiary has been working feverishly on the development of the X3 and X4 helicopter models, both in the class of the Eurocopter EC 155. The big news is that Eurocopter has indeed ...

Eurocopter today delivered the 1,000th EC135 to its new owner. Fifteen years after the first of these helicopters rolled off the production line at the Eurocopter plant in Donauwörth, the group’s ...

With its modern product line, Eurocopter has responded to the increasing security requirements of the British Isles and elsewhere by adapting its light twin-engine helicopter family to meet the ...

HeliSAS, Cobham’s Autopilot and Stability Augmentation System, has been granted FAA supplemental type certification (STC) on the Eurocopter AS350 model series and EC130 helicopters. Earlier this ...

The helicopter seemingly goes by two different model numbers (EC-130 and H130) because the EC-130 is the aircraft's old model number, but it was changed to H-130 after its manufacturer (Eurocopter ...

Both helicopters – a Eurocopter AS555SN Fennec and an AgustaWestland AW139 – went into a tailspin and crashed, killing everyone on board. A probe by the navy found the Eurocopter model was not ...

PARIS — Eurocopter has begun design work on a new helicopter that will incorporate the high-speed technology used in its X3 demonstrator. CEO Lutz Bertling told journalists at the company’s ...