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Austria Upgrading its AB212 Helicopters

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Austrian AB212(click to view full) Austria’s mountainous terrain makes helicopters very important to its military, which operates a handful of S-70 Black Hawks, plus an aging fleet of AB212 Hueys that were license-built in Italy, and even older French Alouette-III machines. Austria intends to keep its fleet of 23 Hueys at Linz-Hörsching operational for another 25 years. To that end it has placed a EUR 63 million (currently about $84.3 million) contract with Finmeccanica subsidiary AgustaWestland to modify the helicopters with new avionics systems, and improved night vision and defensive capabilities. The fleet has accumulated about 115,000 flight hours to date, and the goal is another 100,000 flight hours for the fleet. The modernization will begin in June 2010, and will be complete in 2014, with a maximum of 6 machines out of service for refurbishment at any given time. AgustaWestland has agreed to industrial offset work in Austria worth 50% of the contract’s value over 10 years. Austrian Bundesheer [in German]
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Austrian AB212
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Austria’s mountainous terrain makes helicopters very important to its military, which operates a handful of S-70 Black Hawks, plus an aging fleet of AB212 Hueys that were license-built in Italy, and even older French Alouette-III machines.

Austria intends to keep its fleet of 23 Hueys at Linz-Hörsching operational for another 25 years. To that end it has placed a EUR 63 million (currently about $84.3 million) contract with Finmeccanica subsidiary AgustaWestland to modify the helicopters with new avionics systems, and improved night vision and defensive capabilities. The fleet has accumulated about 115,000 flight hours to date, and the goal is another 100,000 flight hours for the fleet.

The modernization will begin in June 2010, and will be complete in 2014, with a maximum of 6 machines out of service for refurbishment at any given time. AgustaWestland has agreed to industrial offset work in Austria worth 50% of the contract’s value over 10 years. Austrian Bundesheer [in German]

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