Helo owners want bizjet-style interiors
Business/VIP helicopter owners are increasingly demanding more cabin comfort and equipment.

Business/VIP helicopter owners are increasingly demanding more cabin comfort and equipment. Helicopter manufacturers enjoying a booming market for their products are thus endeavoring to make their interiors look more like those of business jets.

“We are now involved right from the design phase. The idea no longer is to make a ‘general purpose’ helicopter and fit it with luxury options,” Patrice Royer, Eurocopter’s director for market development in the business and private segment, told NBAA Convention News. The Marignane, France-based company (Booth No. 4351) received 88 orders for such applications in the first half of this year, more than for all of 2005.

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