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France-based Airbus mentioned on Friday that it had agreed to promote 50 of its H160 helicopters to the Chinese company GDAT in a deal introduced at the ultimate day of President Emmanuel Macron’s state talk over with to China.
“We are honored GDAT has decided to bolster their all-Airbus fleet of 26 helicopters with the addition of 50 H160 helicopters,” Bruno Even, CEO of Airbus Helicopters, mentioned in a remark.
Earlier this week, Airbus agreed to construct a moment Chinese meeting line within the nation as home go back and forth returned to pre-pandemic ranges. Airbus Helicopters on Wednesday posted a 2% upward push in deliveries final yr to 344 devices, cementing its place as the arena’s biggest business helicopter maker because it booked a web general of 362 orders.
Before cancellations, the Airbus subsidiary received 374 gross orders final yr, it mentioned in a remark. Airbus Helicopters, whose competition come with Textron subsidiary Bell and AgustaWestland, a part of Italy’s Leonardo, mentioned that it had secured 52% of the worldwide civil and parapublic – government-owned or operated services and products like police and air ambulances – marketplace in 2022.
Airbus Helicopters additionally showed that its helicopter fleet flight hours had returned to pre-COVID 2019 ranges. Flight hours force carrier revenues that make up nearly part of Airbus Helicopters gross sales.
Cushioned by means of public services and products, helicopter call for suffered much less from COVID-19 than the grounded airline business. Airbus Helicopters Chief Executive Bruno Even advised Reuters in September that flight hours had reached pre-COVID ranges and the collection of to be had second-hand helicopters – a brake on new gross sales – had fallen.