Rotorcraft
Airbus Helicopters Saw Dwindling Orders, Deliveries in 2015
Order book to open this year for in-flight-test H160 medium twin.
Airbus CEO Guillame Faury is focusing on the positives as the company reports fewer deliveries than expected for 2015.
Airbus CEO Guillame Faury is focusing on the positives as the company reports fewer deliveries than expected for 2015.

Orders and deliveries at Airbus Helicopters (Booth 9651) last year fell far below expectations, at a net 333 and 393, respectively, compared to 402 orders and 471 deliveries in 2014. Smaller revenues, although not disclosed, came equally from civil and military activities. CEO Guillaume Faury blamed the reductions on low oil prices and “delays in the key military campaigns.” The company received just two orders for the H225 family, which traditionally sells in the oil-and-gas and defense segments. Against the backdrop of globally dwindling sales, Airbus Helicopters’s claimed share in the civil and parapublic market increased slightly, to 45 percent of deliveries in those segments.


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