Aerospace Diary

  AIN NEWS LIVE FROM AEROINDIA  »  2013 by    NEELAM MATHEWS Eurocopter India has achieved significant growth in sales and deliveries over the past 12 months. [Photo: Eurocopter] February 8, 2013, 5:26 AM India’s Ghodawat Industries placed an order for a Eurocopter  EC135  helicopter at the Aero India show in Bangalore this week. The aircraft will be configured for four passengers and is due for delivery in May, when it will replace the customer’s existing  EC120  model. During the event, the manufacturer also delivered another example of the light twin to Indian industrial group Mahindra  &  Mahindra. Despite a shaky local economy, Eurocopter India recorded orders for 12 helicopters in 2012, nine of which were for the  EC135 . The European airframer’s two-year-old Indian subsidiary claims that this represents a 70-percent market share in this category of rotorcraft in the local market....

Posted by- Neelam Mathews March 19, 2012 Eurocopter India, a subsidiary of Eurocopter, has announced its first bookings in India for 2012. Comprising light and medium class helicopters, the bookings included an AS350 B3e, an EC135 and an EC155. Signed against the backdrop of India Aviation 2012 in Hyderabad, these helicopters will be delivered in corporate configuration within this year, says the company. With four out of five units delivered last year in India being Eurocopter’s AS350 B3, Eurocopter’s stronghold in the single-engine helicopter market looks set to continue its dominance, with its first booking of 2012 being another AS350 B3e sold to G.R. Constructions for business aviation use.The AS350 B3e is the latest enhanced version from Eurocopter’s Ecureuil family of helicopters. Eurocopter India also signed agreements with two undisclosed customers for an EC135 and an EC155, both of which will also be used for corporate travel. The two twin-engine aircraft are known t...