AW 101 AgustaWestland, delivered the first AW101 VVIP helicopter to Turkmenistan Airlines. The contract for two AW101 VVIP helicopters...
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The contract for two AW101 VVIP helicopters was signed at the 2010 Farnborough International Air Show. Assembly of the aircraft took place at AgustaWestland’s Yeovil facility in South West England. AgustaWestland has also provided pilot and maintainer training and an initial spares package under the contract.
The aircraft departed Yeovil on 29th March, fully loaded for the 5 day ferry flight across Europe to Turkmenistan. The journey included stop-overs in Germany, Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan prior to transiting to Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan. After over 30 hours of flight time the aircraft arrived serviceable to the main operational base. Almost 200 AW101 helicopters have been ordered by customers around the world so far to perform a wide range of government, public service and military missions.
The AW101 has logged over 280,000 flight hours in service in Italy, UK, Denmark, Portugal, Japan, Canada.
