Rotorcraft
Kopter Rotates Toward Design Freeze
P3 has more than 50 hours of testing.

Kopter (Booth B4016) expects its flight-test team to be ensconced this month at the southern tip of Sicily in Pozzalo, Italy, for the push to finalize the design of its new SH09 single-engine, large-cabin helicopter targeted for the air medical, rescue, law enforcement, utility, and passenger transport market segments. According to Kopter CEO Andreas Löwenstein, “Pozzalo is probably the spot in Europe where they have the best and most stable weather conditions,” as well as “a very good airport and air traffic management infrastructure for flight testing a helicopter.”