CHC Helicopter orders 20 additional Eurocopter EC225s,
expanding world’s largest fleet of Super Puma family helicopters
Marignane, France, Sept. 29, 2011 + + + CHC Helicopter has ordered and will incorporate 20 more Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma
twin-engine helicopters into its operations over the next several years, CHC and Eurocopter announced
today.
Deliveries of the newly ordered EC225s – including an option for four additional aircraft beyond the initial 20 – will occur
during the next four-plus years, into 2016. According to CHC, the helicopters will be needed to accommodate anticipated
growth from both current and future customers.
The aircraft are expected to be deployed to serve oil-and-gas customers in the
UK, Norway, Australia and Brazil.
“We are extremely optimistic about the future of this industry and CHC’s place in
it,” said CHC President and Chief Executive
Officer William Amelio. “The EC225 is an excellent aircraft for extending CHC’s global
reach, responsiveness and leadership
in safety – qualities that enable us to provide great value to our
customers.”
Amelio added that the EC225 has a “well-deserved reputation for high reliability in the most demanding operational
conditions.”
CHC is the largest operator of Eurocopter’s Super Puma family helicopters in the
world, including the most extensive fleet
with the EC225 version. By 2016, CHC could have as many as 50 EC225s in operation on behalf of its
customers.
“The EC225’s success story could not have been written without CHC, and it is an honor for Eurocopter to have CHC as the
EC225’s flagship operator throughout the world,” said Lutz Bertling, Eurocopter’s President and CEO. “We are especially proud
of the long-term relationship and mutual confidence that has been built with our valued
partner, and we look forward to
further contributing to the success of CHC’s operations with the newly-ordered EC225s.”
Eurocopter’s EC225 offers superior speed, range, payload, optimal safety and
reliability. Deployed worldwide for civil and
military search and rescue, as well as offshore and passenger transport
missions, it is the latest-generation member of the
Super Puma/Cougar family, which has logged more than four million flight hours in operations around the
globe.
The EC225 is perfectly adapted to missions in severe weather, as it is designed to meet the highest safety standard levels
with system redundancy, a highly capable automatic flight control system, and the capability for full deicing – which allows
flight in all known icing conditions.
When configured for offshore crew change operations in support of oil and gas
producers, the EC225 can be rapidly converted
for search and rescue operations.
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About CHC:
CHC Helicopter is the world's largest helicopter services company specializing in three main areas of
operation:
transportation to offshore oil and gas platforms; civilian search-and-rescue
services, and helicopter maintenance, repair and overhaul. The company is headquartered in Vancouver,
B.C., Canada, and has
a fleet of more than 250 aircraft and operates in about 30 countries around the
world.
About Eurocopter:
Established in 1992, the Franco-German-Spanish Eurocopter Group is a division of
EADS, a world leader in aerospace, defense
and related services. The Eurocopter Group employs approximately 17,500 people. In 2010, Eurocopter confirmed its position as
the world’s number one helicopter manufacturer in the civil and parapublic market with a turnover of 4.8 billion Euros,
orders for 346 new helicopters and a 49 percent market share in the civil and parapublic
sectors. Overall, the Group’s
helicopters account for 33 percent of the total worldwide civil and parapublic
fleet. Eurocopter’s strong worldwide presence
is ensured by its 30 subsidiaries and participations on five continents, along with a dense network of
distributors,
certified agents and maintenance centers. There are currently 11,200 Eurocopter helicopters in service and some 2,900
customers in 147 countries. Eurocopter offers the largest civil and military helicopter range in the
world.
For more information, please contact: http://www.eurocopter.com
CHC :
Pieter Uni (Canada) - pieter.uni@chc.ca
Laura Grant (UK/Europe) - laura.grant@bigpartnership.co.uk
Eurocopter:
Stéphane Chéry - stephane.chery@eurocopter.com
Julie Guérin - julie.guerin@eurocopter.com
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