Rotorcraft
New Rotorcraft 2018
The stagnating civil market is showing signs of a return to life.

AIN 2018 New Rotorcraft

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Oil topped $60 per barrel at the end of last year, a harbinger of optimism for new rotorcraft sales. Growing geopolitical uncertainty combined with OPEC crude oil production cuts should send the price of oil and gas climbing further this year, benefiting the leading offshore operators as that sector consolidates and rebounds. However, expect to see more offshore activity in Austral-Asia and a growing shift from heavies to super-mediums to service that market, a development that bodes well for Airbus, Bell, and Leonardo—companies with available or soon-to-be available new models in that sector. Those models also will benefit from the global trend to privatize helicopter search-and-rescue operations.