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Articles tagged with: Kawasaki

02 December 2020

Airbus/Kawasaki BK.117/H145/UH-72

Drawn From: World Military & Civil Aircraft Briefing

The BK.117/145 is a successful joint venture that continues to sell very well for several civil applications.  It has a particularly strong EMS presence — just over half of the demand base. Production had been running at a low level — Eurocopter and Kawasaki combined had been building less than one per month until 2007 — but with the 145/C-2 the program has shown signs of a revival. More importantly, it has become one of the lucky platforms to win the great DoD lottery. First, Eurocopter’s decision to develop the C-2/EC 145 version was rewarded by a French Interior Ministry order for 32, the biggest single BK.117 order ever.

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