Airbus Helicopters and US operator PHI are preparing for the start of route-proving flights in the Gulf of Mexico using the airframer’s new H160 medium-twin. PHI has already taken delivery of the four helicopters it will use for the initiative, says H160 programme manager Gilles Armstrong, and route-proving activities […]
“It is one our top moments to start this route proving with PHI – it is very important to us for the H160 in the energy segment,” Armstrong told journalists at the airframer’s Marginane site in France on 13 February.
The pair had hoped to begin the work earlier – it was the subject of a 2021 agreement also involving Shell – but were held up by the late-running US certification of the type.
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