AWnewsletterSpring 2016

FROM FINMECCANICA

TO LEONARDO

On April 28th 2016 the Shareholders’ Meeting approved our Company’s name change: from now on Finmeccanica becomes Leonardo.Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the most iconic figures in history, he was an innovator, representing values of research and experimentation. He is a symbol of ingenuity, curiosity, creativity and passion applied to every form of knowledge. This is why it was decided to change our company name to Leonardo, which perfectly sums up the values which form the basis of our commitment. This is an important change, and it represents another step in the transformation process launched in the last two years, which has led to a new organisational model and the creation of the One Company.

With the transformation into One Company, we have developed from being a financial holding company to a single integrated industrial entity, concentrating on the high-technology sectors of Aerospace, Defence and Security: this is why the name Leonardo better reflects our new identity and goals.Going forward, as Leonardo Helicopters, we still remain committed to providing technologically advanced products and services. We are ready to meet the future, developing our ability to understand customers’ needs and work with them to meet and exceed their expectations providing timely and efficient solutions. We will build on the historical heritage of our well established brand, AgustaWestland, which will continue to be associated with our products, as a tangible sign of our roots.

Daniele RomitiMD Leonardo Helicopters

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FLASH TOOL

A few months after its entry into service (December 2015) our FLASH SYSTEM, a tool developed to support customers in the process of uploading field loadable avionic equipment , is being used by customers operating the AW189 and the AW169 in three different continents:

EUROPE (UK, Italy)MIDDLE EAST (Dubai)OCEANIA (Australia)

In the next months, our FLASH Tool will be provided to:

EAST ASIA (Japan)NORTH AMERICA (USA)

Three further LRUs will be supported with the next release of FLASH

AW189 FULL FLIGHT SIMULATOR

The factory acceptance of the AW189 Full Flight Simu-lator (FFS) for Gulf Helicopters Company (GHC) was successfully achieved in March, at our premises in Sesto Calende.The AW189 FFS was completely designed and manu-factured by our Training and Helicopter Support Systems (THSS) departments, in accordance with the EASA requi-rements for a level C Full Flight Simulator.Our pilots as well as the customer have positively eva-luated the features and behavior of the FFS during the testing phases. It has been considered aligned with the real helicopter performances as well as fully compliant with the training requirements, especially relevant to Oil & Gas operations. The projection system field of view (235°x65°), which allows specific training on approach and landing on oil rig platforms using visual cues through the chin windows and lower door windows, was particu-larly appreciated.The FFS will be installed at the Training Academy of Gulf Helicopters in Doha, Qatar and it will be ready for the EASA/QCAA certification currently scheduled for July. Once certified, the FFS will be used by GHC to perform type rating training (inclusive of VFR/IFR, emergencies, CAT. A operations, multi crew cooperation), recurrent/re-fresh training and mission training (Off-shore, Search and Rescue, Cargo and Hoist and NVG operations).

The main features of the FFS are:

• high fidelity replica of the AW189 cockpit structure and instruments, with both real and simulated panels

• flight dynamic model, developed and tuned by our engineers, with the help of our test and instructor pilots

• use of comprehensive OEM helicopter flight data package, gathered during flight campaigns with on-purpose instrumented aircrafts

• software modeling of the avionics and aircraft sy-stems

• rehost of the real H/C AMMC and autopilot on-board software

• high performance projection system, covering a field of view of 235°x65°

• 6 degree-of-freedom electro-pneumatic motion sy-stem and pilot and copilot seat shaker system

• control loading system to replicate the force feel on primary and secondary flight controls

• multi-touch Instructor Operating Station (IOS), inclu-sive of tactical scenarios to reproduce specific mis-sion (e.g. Search and Rescue, EMS, Law Enforcement)

• high resolution Visual Database areas of Doha (for Oil& Gas operations) and Switzerland (for mountain and Search and Rescue operations)

• full compatibility with the use of actual Night Vision Goggles

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TECHNICAL AW139 SEMINAR AT

ARROW AVIATION

Organized by our Service Center Arrow Aviation, a recent Louisiana-style crawfish boil and maintenance seminar was held for customers across the Gulf of Mexico and featured the AW189 that recently entered into service with Era.While the new aircraft took center stage, the company held a well-attended AW139 technical briefing for those who fly and maintain the aircraft for Gulf operations. With nearly 800 helicopters in service in 70 countries across five continents, the fleet has now logged a staggering 1,400,000 flight hours worldwide and 11,000 hours for the fleet leader alone.To meet the needs of operators following exponential growth of the AW139 fleet, Leonardo Helicopters has made a commitment to ensuring reliable operations and maintainability for all customers through its maintenan-ce improvement team efforts. Since the inception of the AW139 maintenance improvement team meetings in 2011, the group has met 11 times and closed 90% of its action

items. Success of the maintenance improvement team to date include enhanced retirement lives for rear fuselage, tailboom and the MGB main case, and extended manda-tory inspection times for tail rotor elastomeric dampers and main rotor scissor bearings.Other key updates shared with customers at the seminar in the Gulf included corrosion protection advancements and aircraft capability enhancements, including run-dry capabilities for upwards of 60 minutes.Also introduced to the attendees was Heliwise, the hub of HUMS monitoring for all future models of AgustaWe-stland products. Future HUMS data will be uploaded directly into the company’s server, eliminating the need for a customer database and transfer procedure.Closing out the meeting was news about the company’s technical publications, which will be updated in accor-dance with the latest international specifications and will allow for a family concept across all model IETP. Intro-duction of new flight crew operating manual, with a target release of Q1 2017, will bridge the gap between technical requirements in the RFM, and operational requirements, and ensure customers are best served by the company’s leadership in this area of support.

UPDATE ON IN-SERVICE EVENT

On the Leonardo, AW Customer Portal, we have made available a new section dedicated to In-Service Event (ISE) update.The ISE area if a further step in guaranteeing continuous support and maximum transparency to all our Customers worldwide with regards to the improvement development plans related to in-service events.Product Support Engineering & Licenses collect custo-mers’ feedback from the field, and then prepare dedi-cated presentations to provide an insight on specific technical topics for the worldwide fleet. ISE presentations are available in the MyPublications Area, in the section where Product Line Technical Bulletins are stored. Custo-mers and operators can access the information based on their active subscription to the Technical Publications set for each product line.

ISE presentations provide details related to:

• events overview• safety and certification considerations (if necessary)• information about on-going investigation activities (if

any)• details on action plan up to the closure of the topic.

As anticipated with Information Letter GEN-16-056, de-dicated live communication sessions are being organized periodically (first sessions held in March 2016) to commu-nicate with customers more effectively and to share new available information. Interactivity during the live session is welcome as well as a consistent time dedicated to Q&A.WebEx meetings are periodically scheduled based on the progress of activities in order to maintain consistency of update with all the community.Should you need additional information or should you have specific requests do not hesitate to contact us.

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AW169 SHOWCASED ACROSS

CONTINENTS

With our AW169, a versatile, new generation twin engine light intermediate category helicopter, designed in response to the growing market demand for an aircraft that delivers high performance, we have started in mid April several demo flights with an aircraft in VIP configuration, to showcase it to customers in different countries.The starting point was Montecarlo, where a few customers were able to test it one day during Top Marques, the supercar show which also showcases other aspects of a luxury lifestyle such as state-of-the-art superboats and it is the ideal place for the VIPs to also shop for private helicopters.

The helicopter then flew to the UK for a few days. Some further demo flights were carried out in two different locations: in the area of Fairoaks Airport and of Sywell Aerodrome, close to the Silverstone circuit.

Our AW169 took center stage on the last day of the World Superyacht Awards held in Florence in mid-May, when we organized a few demo flights in the suggestive location of Cantine Antinori in San Casciano in Val di Pesa (Tuscany).

A few days later, a test AW169 aircraft from our US site in Philadelphia, PA, which was testing the flight envelope expansion, landed in a narrow loading dock behind the convention center in West Palm Beach, FL during the American Helicopter Society (AHS) International 72nd annual meeting, a pleasant surprise for the attendees.

The overall feedback received after the demo flights was positive, particularly regarding the APU mode, which is considered a winning feature; the visibility on the cockpit and the situation awareness, as well as the visibility of the cabin, thanks to the sliding door solution with large windows. Also the soundproofing and the interior is generally considered very good and particularly appreciated by the passengers.

More than 150 AW169 helicopters have been ordered by customers around the world to date, for a wide range of applications including executive/corporate transport, air ambulance, law enforcement, offshore transport and utility roles. Designed with inherent dual-use capabilities, the AW169 is also ideally suited for the wide scope of parapublic and government applications and will be able to meet military and naval requirements.

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BLUEWAY AW139 FLEET SETS

25,000 FLIGHT HOURS MILESTONE

The fleet of seven AW139 intermediate twin engine helicopters operated by Blueway, a joint venture between Caverton Helicopters limited and Dancopter, has recently achieved the milestone of 25,000 flight hours in support of the Shell Offshore operations in the Nigerian Niger Delta since 2010, when they won a seven-year contract with SHELL for the operation of six helicopters (with an additional aircraft starting from 2014) servicing Shell Companies in Nigeria.State-of-the-art technology, outstanding performance, low operating costs and the only helicopter in its class to meet the latest safety standards, have made the AW139 the helicopter of choice in the medium twin market. With its power reserve, the AW139 delivers Category A performance from a helipad at maximum take-off weight with an unmatched one engine inoperative capability and this made the AW139 an incomparable choice in the offshore helicopters market.

The operations are expected to continue with high flight hour rates and we will be looking forward to announce the achievement of the 30,000 flight hours within the end of 2016.Caverton Helicopters and Dancopter are two major AW139 operators and prime players in the Sub-Saharian offshore market. Caverton Helicopters currently operates three other AW139s, thus making it the biggest AW139 operator in Africa, with a fleet of ten AW139s in total. Caverton is also an Authorized Service Centre for Leonardo Helicopters. Furthermore Caverton is the leading provider of marine, aviation and logistics services to local and international oil and gas companies in Nigeria. Dancopter, which was part of the BlueWay group, was bought by NHV in 2014, and is now part of NHV Group, provides a range of helicopter services within the oil and gas, infrastructure, environment and search & rescue markets. Caverton and Dancopter’s main base center is located at Lagos Airport, with line and base maintenance hangars in Warri and Port Harcourt.

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RESULTS OF THE 2016 TECHNICAL

PUBLICATIONS SURVEY

The Technical Publications department would like to extend their gratitude to all of the customers and operators who completed the online Technical Publication Services Survey, we had responses from seven continents and over 100 customers.As always it is good to receive feedback on the things we do well and of course this helps us to identify and focus on areas for improvement. Our team has analysed all the data collected and created an action plan to respond directly to specific issues, andan implementation plan to incorporate some of the suggestions and improvements into the continuous improvement cycle of our services.

To view a full presentation of the results and the action plan please visit the ‘Highlights’ area within the Leonardo AW Customer Portal.

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NEW TRAINING CENTRE IN

NORWAY

To support the requirements of the Norwegian All Wea-ther Search And Rescue Helicopter (NAWSARH) con-tract, we have committed to providing AW101 training courses for our Norwegian Customer. As an integral part of this commitment, access to an in-country Level D Full Flight Simulator (FFS) and a System Operator Conso-le Simulator (SOCS) need to be provided. As a result, Leonardo Helicopters has contracted Thales to build an annex to their existing Training Centre, in order to ac-commodate the new training devices and to provide the Customer with world class training courses and facilities. The facility is based at Sola airport near Stavanger and is just an 800m walk from the airport terminal. Next to the Training Centre is a hotel, which is the ideal location for the students being trained in the centre and is also rea-dily available as an extension to the training facility, with conference facilities both on the ground floor and in the Skytower rooms at the top of the hotel. We are part of a complex which is identified as Norway’s Training Centre of Excellence, and once the training to the Norwegian Customer will be fulfilled, the Centre will offer us future international training opportunities.

The building contractor broke ground on 29 February 2016 and are currently constructing the 8m2 simulator base, ready to accept the AW101 Full Flight Simulator, manufactured by CAE. The facility will be ready in time for us to deliver the first scheduled training courses in November 2016. Our Training Centre will include the simulator hall, classrooms, briefing rooms, supporting training device areas, breakout areas and office space all within our specific FNM HD annex, while admin support, canteen and student welfare, are all already functioning in the main facility. The development of the NAWSARH training facility is part of our commitment to work with our customers to provide Customer Support & Training capabilities where they can add the most value to operational needs.

EAMTC GENERAL ASSEMBLY 64TH

MEETING IN VERGIATE

On March 15th and 16th we hosted the 64th General As-sembly meeting of the European Aviation Maintenance Training Committee at our site in Vergiate. This latest conference saw the participation of more than 140 delegates and guests, coming from 31 different countries across five continents, representing the main training organisations and companies as well as the major aircraft/engine manufacturers.The working sessions were opened by a welcome speech of Daniele Romiti, MD of Leonardo Helicopters, who un-derlined that safety and effective operations of aircraft are obtained only through a synergic connection betwe-en design, production and Continuous Airworthiness and must include high quality training and a clear and simple but thoroughly comprehensive regulation framework.

Issues related to OSD (Operational Suitability Data) were discussed in detail, and it was clearly stated that the settlement of the minimum syllabus from the manufactu-rer represents an opportunity, for all the stakeholders; manufacturer, operators, training organizations and the Competent Authority to ensure an adequate minimum level of training on each specific type of aircraft. Fur-

thermore, manufacturers will be able to enhance the minimum syllabus with as much additional detail as they wish to enrich the training material.Among the speakers were Mr. Juan Anton, EASA Main-tenance Regulations Section Manager, and Mr. Bram van Driel, EASA Airworthiness Standardisation Team Leader. Both of them delivered presentations focusing on regu-lation changes – either the most recently issued or those expected in the near future, as well as EASA’s activities in the fields of Maintenance Training and Standardisation.Other interesting topics on the agenda of the conference were the updates of all EAMTC Working Groups (related to the improvements of Part 147/Part 66 and the deve-lopment of CS-MCSD), the OEM’s role in training, safety culture, examination processes, and the use of the In-fra-Red technology in evaluating the learning of complex tasks and workload assessment.Mr. Ian Williams, President of the EAMTC, closed the meeting thanking Leonardo Helicopters for the organi-sation of the event. He also expressed appreciation of all delegates for the warmth, hospitality, enthusiasm and professionalism of the hosting staff.

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ECHO BRINGS CRITICAL CARE

TRAINING WEEKEND TO AWPC

The East Coast Helicopter Operations’ Critical Care Training event brought more than 200 active flight crew members from around the East Coast to Philadelphia for a medically oriented conference that specializes in critical care, the operations of helicopter units, and collaboration for best practices in the field.Throughout the weekend of April 1st through 3rd, educational sessions were hosted at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in downtown Philadelphia and covered topics such as social media for air medical operations, EMS and suicide prevention, a crash course in K9 trauma unit, and panels of experts from Jefferson, Boston MedFlight, University of Maryland Shock Trauma, and Pottstown Medical Center. Saturday’s sessions were followed by an evening tour of our helicopter manufacturing and completions facility at the Northeast Philadelphia Airport.

“Hosting flight crew members from EMS and law enforcement operators as part of ECHO’s critical care weekend in Philadelphia, we opened up our facility to showcase the latest advancements in helicopter technology that benefit pilots, medical crew, and most importantly – patients,” said Bill Hunt, CEO of AgustaWestland Philadelphia.A range of AgustaWestland helicopters in EMS configuration were on display, including the AW119Kx, the AW169, and the Trekker. Attendees included representatives from Maryland State Police, New Jersey State Police, PennSTAR, Temple University Hospital, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Boston MedFlight, Penn State Hershey LifeLion, and other EMS and airborne law enforcement units from across the United States.“We take pride in the fact that the aircraft built here in Philadelphia, and our sites across the world, are the life-saving bridge between a traumatic accident and the medical care awaiting patients when they arrive at a hospital,” Hunt said.

AW DO BRASIL – CUSTOMER

MAINTENANCE TRAINING

Since 2012 AW do Brasil, fully owned subsidiary of Finmeccanica – Leonardo, is offering to customers and maintenance providers a set of AW109 series helicopters Maintenance Training Courses in Portuguese for rated mechanics and technicians.Enhancing local support capabilities, AW do Brasil is now offering the AW139 Airframe Maintenance Course. The 1st course was held from 7th March to 4th April 2016 and was attended by ten students from major AW139

Brazilian operators: OMNI Taxi Aereo, AEROLEO Taxi Aereo and CB Air.AgustaWestland do Brasil Maintenance Training Courses, which are offered to the same standard and syllabus of our Training Academies in Sesto Calende (Italy) and Philadelphia (USA), are approved by our Training Academy and have the endorsement of the Brazilian Agency for Civil Aviation - ANAC.

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NEW TRAINING CATALOGUE

The latest version of our Training catalogue for AgustaWestland products is now available. This new interactive catalogue contains useful information to help Customers find the right Training Academy course, quickly and efficiently.

The catalogue includes an overview of the worldwide network of Training Academies and satellite centers, information regarding certifications, maintenance and synthetic training devices, as well as other available services.

The Training content in the catalogue includes details on:

• Basic courses• Pilot courses• Technician courses• FAA training courses• Pilot and Rearcrew operational training courses• Advanced training courses

Paolo Petrosso, Head of our Training Academy, says “Building on our well established experience, our Training Academy is dedicated to providing complete OEM quality training to our worldwide customers

and operators, in all mission scenarios, including advanced operational training such as HEMS, OGP, Law Enforcement, SAR and VIP. This catalogue illustrates our strong commitment to provide total training capability to our customers”. The catalogue information is available online atwww.leonardocompany.com/customer-support/elicotteri-helicopter/training-solutions/training-academies/academy-italy.

HUMAN FACTOR CONCEPTS/

RECALL INTO TYPE RATING

PRACTICAL ELEMENT COURSES

Starting from April 2016, the Practical Elements training courses for AgustaWestland products have been broa-dened to include a specific reference to and briefings about Human Factor issues. The practical element logbook is now used in conjun-ction with a leaflet (Pictures 1 and 2), which the attendee can use to support the recall of the relevant Human Fac-tor principles, and learn how they relate to the task they are executing, as directed by the instructor.

This puts our Training Academy amongst top-level main-tenance aviation schools, promoting the real-life applica-tion of Human Factor principles, removing their applica-tion from the classroom theory and applying them into the maintenance hangar, where this needs to be put into practice. Enabling the students to apply the Human Factors known principles during the maintenance training activity increases the efficiency of the principles and fosters their application in real world scenarios. Teaching technicians Human Factors is aimed at increasing safety during maintenance: our goal is to provide state of the art training solutions that ensure the safety of our opera-tions as well as the safety of the customers who operate our products.

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HUMAN FACTORS

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1. WORKING IN CONFINED SPACES

During helicopters’ maintenance activity, it is quite usual to work in confined or restricted spaces, such as in the interior of the tail boom, in the interior of avionic bays or under the helicopter itself.

KEY HAZARDS while working in confined/restricted spaces:

� Difficulties in using tools, due to limited space. � Limited movement of the head to seek the best view. � Physical problems, aching limbs or suffering due to the position

of the body. � Hurry to finish the job to get out by the awkward situation � Inability to use workbench to locate equipment and spare parts. � Natural lighting absent or insufficient.

CUES AND RESPONSES

Bring with you a very small toolbox with the bare essentials, nothing more. The use of the small toolbox avoids helicopter spares and tools

to roll under bundles, ribs, pipes and then to be forgotten. Always provide a dedicated space in the box to put the leftover pieces of safety wire and cotter pins.

Working in confined spaces, hands movements are often reduced. Under these

conditions it is likely that occasionally the tool will slipping off, going in areas difficult to be reached.

Do not stay in the awkward position too long; plan short breaks to stretch a little.

Take the right time to organize in detail the lighting; prefer light sources that do not overheat even further the working area.

when you have finished to carry out the task, always inspect your work with an inspection mirror to check also those areas where you have worked without being able to see directly.

Use work clothes without zippers and buttons, but only with Velcro closures, so as not to ruin helicopter parts and especially to avoid FOD-Foreign Object Damage.

At the end of the work, before closing any panels, make a complete tool-check.

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HELIWISE MOBILE

Heliwise TM, our platform for the HUMS data analysis support, is continuously evolving to support the AW Family fleet.We had given you an overview of the Heliwise system in our AW Newsletter of Spring 2015, we have now upgraded it and have included some new features and enhancements :

• AW 189 Phase 2.1 Configuration [ OPSW version(s) 4.5.6 - 4.5.8]

• AW 169 Phase 2 Configuration [OPSW version(s) 2.8.9]

• New design for the Faults page, available for single aircraft or entire fleet

• Fleet RTB HI Trend• Fleet filter into Home Page• Export TVM Health Index data into CSV file • Download details into DSN Management page

Our focus is keeping our customers at the center of our daily activities, to better support them, we have presented a preliminary version of the Heliwise Mobile TM App during the last HeliExpo, held in March this year. The Heliwise Mobile TM App is available for iOS mobile devices. When connected to the Internet it allows access to the fleet page, to download data from the helicopter and to send data to the server for HUMS analysis.

SKYFLIGHT MOBILE SERVICE

Designed to increase our customers’ flying experience, offering a cost-effective safety enhancement and reducing the flight crew workload, the flight planning Skyflight Mobile Service is continuously evolving in order to meet operational needs and to ensure a thorough safety assessment.Skyflight supports our customers with accurate weight and balance calculation, customized to reflect the real tail number configuration. The new functionalities allow to transpose the aircraft updates and changes in terms of cabin configurations, kits list, EWE and COG. The Service allows to perform what-if analysis and deep aircraft performance calculation, compliant with

the RFM. A pre-flight evaluation of all the aspects concerning route design, amendment and assessment makes the aircrew readily aware of all aspects that may affect the safety of the flight .Rapidly, in just a few clicks, the flight crew prepares weight and balance and flight plan reports electronically signed to be sent.

Each pilot in our customers’ organization can save, share with the others and re-use his planned data, allowing a multi-model fleet control in terms of weight configuration and scheduled flights. Since Skyflight is able to interface with the aircraft system, the scheduled flight can be promptly uploaded on board. Latest updates to the Skyflight Mobile ServiceThe latest Skyflight Mobile Service update delivers new important enhancements:

• AW189 and AW169 thorough route assessment with performance computation

• AW109 SP Weight and Balance Calculation • Weight and Balance new functionalities • Additional coverage of Skyflight Maps

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NORMAN ATLANTIC RESCUE

(HELICOPTERS MADE IT POSSIBLE)

During the recent Heli-Expo, the crews of the Italian Co-ast Guard 2nd Nucleo Aereo, the Italian Navy’s Gruppo Elicotteri 1 and Gruppo Elicotteri 3 and the Italian Air Force’s 15th Stormo 84th and 85th Centro CSAR were recognized for their effort in one of the largest marine helicopter rescues ever conducted.On December 28th 2014, fire broke out aboard the car ferry Norman Atlantic, just after leaving a Greek port with nearly 500 passengers plus crew on board, bound for Sothern Italy.The rescue teams with their helicopters, which included AW101s and AW139s, faced dense smoke, rough seas, high flames and wind of more than 40 knots for three days. Such harsh and severe weather conditions made the rescue by helicopter the only possible solution to save the people on board. During the first two hours a Greek helicopter helped, but limited endurance caused it to fly back.Crews flew day and night continuously, and in case of one squadron, 40 of the more than 86 hours of its heli-copters flew at night also thanks to its state-of-the-art avionics. As Lieutenant Andrea Borgh, an Italian Navy AW101 pilot explains: “one of our helicopters stopped neither its engines nor its rotors for 27 hours”.

Only one helicopter at a time could perform hoisting operations because the clear space of the ferry’s upper decks was tight, and this was only possible thanks to the good coordination among Navy and Coast Guard com-mand centres and helicopter crews. The AW139 is also operated by various Italian Government agencies cove-ring a wide scope of law enforcement roles and such a commonality is of paramount importance in dealing with extreme emergency operations. Over 420 people were hoisted and rescued thanks to the combination of helicopters performance, their state of the art avionics, availability and their crew skilled trai-ning and dedication.

AW189 HELICOPTER FLEET

SURPASSES 10,000 FLIGHT HOURS

Less than two years after the very first delivery, the fleet of 26 aircraft currently into service has achieved the milestone of 10,000 flying hours. A major commercial and operational achievement for our AW189 helicopter, which is aimed at meeting long range, large capacity re-quirements with unprecedented levels of cost effective-ness compared to larger and heavier helicopter models in the market.

The AW189s already in service have performed their missions across various geographies including Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America with leading customers in UK, Denmark, Malaysia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam and USA with high availability and operational effectiveness.The achievement of this important result was possible also thanks to the strong collaboration between Leonar-do Helicopters and the AW189 Operators and through dedicated and flexible support packages created to grant full assistance since the first helicopter delivery.

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MAST VIBRATION ABSORBER

The Mast Vibration Absorber KIT P/N 8G1860F00311 has been designed to dampen the vibratory level in the 5/revolution spectrum. The purpose of the Mast Vibration Absorber (MVA) is to decrease the vibrations induced by the mast when turning, highly improving the passengers comfort in cabin. The MVA turns at the same speed of the rotor system and operates on the same modes of a Tuned Vibration Absorber (TVA). The installation has a vibration weight (vibration absorber mass group) tuned in resonance with the frequency of the vibration, thus the device can decrease the vibrations of the structure it is connected to, absorbing the part of energy generated by the vibration source.The kit is an optional installation available for both new production or in-service helicopters through the dedicated BT189-092.

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AW119 “HOT-SPOT” ILLUSTRATED

PARTS CATALOG

With the A119/AW119MkII-IETP 21st issue dated 2016-02-26, we introduced the “Hot-Spot” feature to the Illustra-ted Parts Catalog. All the IPC images have been updated in order to add bi-directional hyperlinks between text and images, with the aim to ease the parts catalogue consultation. This feature is also available on the IETP mobile version, Amerigo4Mobile, available in Leonardo AW CustomerPortal – MyPublication area.This new feature can be used in two ways:1. .After identification of an item in image, to identify the

P/N of the part2. After identification of a P/N in the catalogue, to identi-

fy the item in the image

SOFTWARE PHASE 3.0

IMPROVEMENTS

The new Core Avionics Software Release 3.0 has been developed to introduce new functionalities in the FMS and AFCS, both for basic helicopter operations and for the Automatic Search Modes. New optional functions are available to improve and extend the SAR operations:

• Moving Waypoints and RendezVous on Moving waypoint Target

• Hover Point Approach • Grids Management• Platform Search Pattern• Preview of Search Pattern

The new functionalities of Phase 3.0 Software Release require a new GPS receiver (P/N 100-601944-313) to be installed, as well as a cabling modification. The new software release is available for the whole AW189 fleet through a dedicated Technical Bulletin BT189-068 and has been introduced as part of the basic configuration for new build helicopters.

NEW TAILPLANE INSTALLATION

In the new and improved AW189 tailplane installation design, which has been recently certified, the original lower and upper fitting are replaced with reinforced parts, installation tolerances have been optimized and new attaching hardware has been introduced.The implementation of this modification has been approved as a terminating action of the repetitive inspection requirements of the EASA AD 2015-0161.This modification has been introduced as part of the basic configuration of new production AW189 helicopters, and is part of the product improvement process for the in-service fleet for which it will be mandatorily implemented through Technical Bulletin BT189-070.

For additional details refer to SIL-119-16-048 dated 1st of April, 2016.Should you need any additional information, do not hesi-tate to contact us.

AW189 STARTS SEARCH AND

RESCUE (SAR) SERVICES IN THE

FALKLAND ISLANDS

AAR Airlift Group, together with British International He-licopters (BIH) and Air Rescue Systems (ARS), is delive-ring turnkey SAR and Support Helicopter services to the British Forces South Atlantic Islands (BFSAI) operations with two AW189s. Through the latest generation AW189 SAR helicopters the AAR Team is providing 24/7/365 all-weather SAR, heli-copter emergency services operations, including rescue hoist operations but also maintenance, logistics, facilities support, and personnel management at the Mount Plea-sant Complex in the Falkland Islands and the surrounding maritime region. Following the award of the 10-year contract in January 2015, AAR sourced two new AW189s we customized to meet the program requirements, which premiers the first Civil Aviation Authority approved AW189s operating in a SAR role. The aircraft were accepted in November 2015. After the acceptance, we have been supporting closely the AW189 SAR activities together with the AAR Airlift team, with SAR training performed at the Falklands and the BIH base at Newquay Airport, UK, which allowed a successful start-up of the SAR operations on April 1st. “AAR has integrated a team of industry experts to deliver to the UK Ministry of Defence a sophisticated commercial SAR service fit for a military and civil application, the first operation of its kind,” said Steven B. Harrison, President, AAR Airlift Group. “We are committed to providing a

reliable, quality SAR service that maintains the standards of the Royal Air Force, as well as continued excellence for the commercial support helicopter services.” The AW189 has already established itself as the bestsel-ling aircraft in its class among competing types, with over 150 units sold so far to over 20 customers in 14 nations. Also, the AW189 features today the largest number of dedicated configurations in its market, covering various roles including offshore transport, search and rescue, executive/private transport, firefighting and disaster relief. Additional AW189s are to be delivered in several other countries including Russia, China and Brazil.

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