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Pilot Report: Eurocopter EC175

AIN's Pilot Report about the Eurocopter EC175

Eurocopter EC175

By AIN Staff • AIN Staff

February 12, 2012

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Eurocopter launched its new EC175 helicopter four years ago at the Heli-Expo show in Houston, Texas, showing a fuselage mockup of the new helicopter. Last month, AIN editor-in-chief Randy Padfield had the opportunity to fly one of the EC175 prototypes at Eurocopter’s main facility on Marseille-Provence Airport in France. This is his report of that flight. Additional photos of the demonstration flight are in this AINonline Image Gallery.

Alain Di Bianca, chief test pilot of the Eurocopter EC175 program, and Michel Oswald, flight engineer, made it clear to me before our demonstration flight in January that the aircraft we would be flying is a prototype, in fact, the first of two EC175 prototypes. Therefore, it is not fully compliant with the production EC175s, two of which are in final assembly at Eurocopter’s Marignane, France facility. Certification of the new model in its configuration for the oil and gas market is pegged for the end of this year.

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