Airbus Helicopters Brazilian subsidiary Helibras dominates the Latin American country’s turbine helicopter market with a 47% share “and in the para-public market—police, fire, and such—we have 80% share and in the military 70%,” commercial director Alessandre Fontes Sampaio told AIN this week at LABACE 2024. He noted that Helibras is the only helicopter manufacturer in the southern hemisphere, with two lines at its factory in Itajubá—producing the H125 Esquilo and the H225 Super Cougar—and a third one “under consideration” for the H145.
Meanwhile, he said, one of Helibras’ largest contracts is reaching a successful conclusion. The HXBR contract was for the supply of 47 H225Ms—15 to each of Brazil’s armed forces—and two to the presidential airlift wing. “Last week, we supplied the 44th and next year we’ll deliver the last—one each to the three armed forces. That contract took us from assembler to manufacturer,” Sampaio noted.
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