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Italian Army’s Aviation receives its first NH90

12/29/2007

NHIndustries is pleased to announce that the Italian Army’s Aviation Unit has taken delivery of its first NH90 multi-purpose helicopter late December, 2007. The Italian Army has ordered 60 NH90 TTH helicopters...

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THE AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE RECEIVES ITS FIRST MRH90

12/18/2007

NHIndustries is proud to announce that the Commonwealth of Australia took delivery of its first two MRH90 Multi Role helicopters. These helicopters which have been officially delivered today by Australian Aerospace to the Defence Materiel Organization (DMO) have been assembled in Marignane (France) by Eurocopter and delivered last month to Australian Aerospace (Brisbane).

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68 NH90 FOR FRANCE

12/03/2007

French DGA (Délégation Générale pour l’Armement) has ordered today 68 new generation NH90 TTH helicopters for the French Army Aviation (ALAT). The contract signed between NAHEMA (NATO Helicopter Management Agency), on behalf of French DGA, and NHIndustries mentions a first firm order of 12 NH90 with 56 additional options.

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FIRST FLIGHT OF ROYAL NETHERLANDS NAVY NH90 NFH

08/20/2007

NHIndustries on behalf of AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica Company, announces that the first serial production NH90 for the Royal Netherlands Navy performed the maiden flight on Friday 10th August at AgustaWestland’s Vergiate facility in Italy. The helicopter (NNLN001) took off at 14.45 h and the flight duration was of about 20 minutes. In flight preliminary checks fulfilled all expectations. Operational Representatives of the Dutch Customer joined the event.

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NH90 FIRST DELIVERY FOR SWEDEN

06/20/2007

NHIndustries and its Partner Companies, AgustaWestland, Eurocopter and Stork Fokker, are proud to announce the first delivery of the swedish serial production NH90 to FMV (Swedish Defence Materiel Administration) today during the Paris Air Show 2007.

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NAHEMA SIGNS CONTRACT FOR 10 NH90 HELICOPTERS FOR BELGIUM

06/19/2007

NHIndustries is very pleased to announce that following a formal decision by Belgium to acquire NH90 helicopters taken on 27 April 2007, NAHEMA signed yesterday afternoon the purchase contract for 10 NH90 helicopters for Belgium at the Cercle Militaire Saint-Augustin in Paris, during the Paris Air Show 2007.

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42 ADDITIONAL NH90 CONFIRMED BY GERMANY

06/19/2007

Germany has signed a formal order for 42 additional NH90 helicopters. 30 of these helicopters will be operated by the German Army Aviation and 12 by the German Air Force. These aircraft are in addition to the initial batch of 80 NH90 ordered in June 2000.

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FIRST FLIGHT OF THE OMAN NH90

05/10/2007

Yesterday, the first Omani NH90 took to the air from Eurocopter’s Marignane facility at 10:40 am. It represents the 9th country out of 14 to achieve the maiden flight of NH90 serial production aircraft after Germany, Italy, Finland, Sweden, Greece, France, Norway and Australia

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BELGIUM APPROVES ACQUISITION OF 10 NH90 HELICOPTERS

04/27/2007

The Belgian government has decided today, during a Council of Ministers, to procure 10 NH90 helicopters, consisting of 8 firm orders (4 TTH and 4 NFH) plus 2 optional aircraft.

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FIRST AUSTRALIAN NH90 OF 46 ORDERED TAKING TO THE AIR

03/28/2007

The first Australian NH90 – Tactical Transport Helicopter version (TTH) wearing the Customer designation TAUA01 took off from Marignane (France), the Eurocopter’s facility.

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NH90 Breaking News by End of 2006!

01/11/2007

NHIndustries had a very hectic end to 2006! Following the first 3 NH90 deliveries on 13th December 2006 to the German Army Aviation (See PR n° 62), a major new commercial event took place on 28th December when… Spain ordered 45 NH90 The formal signature of the contract took place exactly 6 days after the Spanish government announced the authorization to acquire 45 NH90 - Tactical Transport Helicopter version (TTH) to modernize the existing Ministry of Defence fleet of medium-size helicopters. NHIndustries is also pleased to inform that a few days before this commercial event, a further step ahead has been performed on 20th December 2006 with the… 1st Norwegian NFH Taking to the Air The first Norwegian NH90 - NATO Frigate Helicopter version (NFH) wearing the Customer designation NNWN #01 took off at 03:40 p.m. from Vergiate (Italy), the AgustaWestland’s facility. This flight lasted about 25 minutes away from the airfield.

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GERMANY RECEIVES ITS FIRST BATCH OF NH90

12/13/2006

NHIndustries is pleased to announce that the first three NH90 TTH tactical transport helicopters have been handed over to the German Army. This event took place at Eurocopter’s Donauworth facility on December 13th 2006

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