Smith Myers and AgustaWestland Aviation Services celebrate their partnership in Abu Dhabi.
Smith Myers and AgustaWestland Aviation Services (AWAS) have formed a partnership to bring Smith Myers ARTEMIS mobile phone detection, location and communication systems to existing Leonardo helicopter users in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions.
Abu Dhabi-based AWAS provides a combination of engineering and maintenance expertise that will offer current Leonardo helicopter users a one-stop-shop for the procurement, integration, certification, commissioning, training and support of ARTEMIS onto existing Leonardo helicopters offering retrofit programmes in the region.
“With over 200 Leonardo helicopters in service in the region and with AWAS involvement in comprehensive upgrade programmes with major customers in the region, the partnership will provide Leonardo’s operators simplified access to this unique technology. We see the MENA region as a significant market for our airborne ARTEMIS suite of systems,” said Andrew Munro, Managing Director of Smith Myers.
Smith Myers’ ARTEMIS suite of SAR products has recently been selected for major UK, European and North American SAR and Coast Guard Programmes. The National Search and Rescue Centre (NSRC) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has also selected ARTEMIS for installation across its fleet of search and rescue helicopters.
“This partnership will build on the success of the UAE National Search & Rescue Centre programme, where AWAS installed the ARTEMIS systems onto the existing fleet of NSRC AW139s,” explained Angelo Vincenzo Carlino, AWAS Managing Director, who added, “We are excited to bring this transformational technology to our customers.”
