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|company_name = Eurocopter S.A.S.
|company_name = Eurocopter S.A.S.
|company_logo = [[Image:Eurocopter logo.svg|250px|]]
|company_logo = [[Image:Eurocopter-eadscompany.jpg|240px|Eurocopter logo]]
|company_type = [[Subsidiary]]
|company_type = [[Subsidiary]]
|foundation = 1992
|foundation = 1992

Revision as of 18:53, 18 September 2010

Eurocopter S.A.S.
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryAerospace
Founded1992
FounderAérospatiale
Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm Edit this on Wikidata
HeadquartersMarignane, France
Key people
Lutz Bertling, CEO
ProductsHelicopters
Revenue€4,570 million
Number of employees
15,600
ParentEADS
Websitewww.eurocopter.com

The Eurocopter Group is a global helicopter manufacturing and support company. It is the largest in the industry in terms of revenues and turbine helicopter deliveries.[citation needed] Eurocopter's main facilities are at its headquarters in Marignane, France, at Eurocopter Deutschland GmbH in Donauwörth, Germany and at Eurocopter España in Albacete, Spain. The company also has a network of 24 subsidiaries, including production facilities in Australia, Brazil and the USA.[1]

History

The Eurocopter Group was formed in 1992 through the merger of the helicopter divisions of Aérospatiale and Daimler-Benz Aerospace AG (DASA). The company's heritage traces back to Blériot and Lioré et Olivier in France and to Messerschmitt and Focke-Wulf in Germany.[2]

Eurocopter and its predecessor companies have established a wide range of helicopter 'firsts,' including the first production turboshaft-powered helicopter (the Alouette II of 1955); the introduction of the Fenestron shrouded tail rotor (on the Gazelle of 1968); the first helicopter certified for full flight in icing conditions (the AS332 Super Puma, in 1984); the first production helicopter with a Fly-by-Wire control system (the NH90, first flown in full FBW mode in 2003); the first helicopter to use a Fly-by-Light primary control system (an EC135 testbed, first flown in 2003); and the first ever landing of a helicopter on Mt. Everest (achieved by an AS350 B3 in 2005).

As a consequence of the merger of the Eurocopter Group's former parents in 2000, the firm is now a wholly owned subsidiary of EADS. The creation of EADS in 2000 also incorporated CASA of Spain, which itself had a history of helicopter-related activities dating back to Talleres Loring, including local assembly of the Bo105.

Today, Eurocopter has seven plants in its home nations (Marignane and La Courneuve in France, Donauwörth, Ottobrunn and Kassel in Germany, and Albacete and Madrid in Spain), plus 24 subsidiaries and participates around the world, as follows:

As of 2010, more than 10,500 Eurocopter helicopters were in service with over 2,800 customers in 140 countries.[3]

Products

Helicopters currently in production

Helicopters no longer in production

Non-production helicopters

  • Bo46 - high-speed research rotorcraft, flown but not put into production
  • Bo102 - semi-captive helicopter trainer
  • Bo103 - light-weight, single-seat helicopter, flown but not put into production
  • Bo106 - widebody Bo105, flown but not put into production
  • Bo108 - predecessor of EC135
  • Bo115 - attack helicopter study concept, not flown
  • SA320 Frelon - predecessor to SA321 Super Frelon, also known as SE3200; flown but not put into production
  • SA340 - predecessor to SA341/342 Gazelle, with conventional tail rotor; flown but not put into production
  • SA349 - high-speed compound test rotorcraft based on SA342 Gazelle; flown but not put into production
  • SE.3101 - single-seat recip powered helicopter, flown but not put into production
  • SE.3110 - two-seat recip powered helicopter, flown but not put into production
  • SE.3120 Alouette I - recip-powered predecessor to Alouette II, flown but not put into production
  • SEAMOS/GEOMOS - vertical take-off and landing UAV, derived from QH-50; flown but not put into production
  • SNCASE Gouverneur - streamlined derivative of Alouette II, flown but not put into production
  • SO.1100 Ariel I/II - two-seat tip-jet powered light helicopter, flown but not put into production
  • SO.1120 Ariel III - two-seat tip-jet powered light helicopter, flown but not put into production
  • SO.1310 Farfadet - compound helicopter design, flown but not put into production

On Eurocopter helicopters designed in France, the main rotor turns clockwise when viewed from above, in common with rotorcraft deriving from Russia. Eurocopter products developed in Germany have a main rotor which turns counter-clockwise when viewed from above, in common with American rotorcraft.

  • NH90 Tactical Transport Helicopter (TTH)
    NH90 Tactical Transport Helicopter (TTH)
  • EC135 T2+
    EC135 T2+
  • EC145
    EC145
  • EC120 Colibri
    EC120 Colibri
  • EC725 Cougar
    EC725 Cougar
  • AS565SA Panther
    AS565SA Panther
  • AS532 Super Puma
    AS532 Super Puma
  • EC155 B1
    EC155 B1
  • AS350 BA Ecureuil
    AS350 BA Ecureuil
  • Tiger ARH
    Tiger ARH
  • EC225 Super Puma
    EC225 Super Puma
  • AS350 B3 acting as a rescue vehicle in the Mt. Hotham snow fields
    AS350 B3 acting as a rescue vehicle in the Mt. Hotham snow fields

References

  1. ^ Eurocopter subsidiaries
  2. ^ Eurocopter genealogy
  3. ^ Eurocopter website
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