Boasting what is probably the longest gestation period of any aircraft in the history of flight, Leonardo’s AW609 is shortly expected to be granted certification. Gideon Ewers, Editor of RotorHub International,...
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Leonardo’s AW609 tiltrotor programme has completed its first ship trial with the support of the Italian Navy. The conforming prototype AC4 was used to perform a series of demonstration trials...
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Leonardo has announced that Malaysia’s Weststar is to be the launch operator for the AW609 in Southeast Asia. Under the terms of the agreement, Weststar will take a single AW609…
Last Thursday, the first production example of the AW609 made its maiden flight Leonardo have revealed. The aircraft (designated AC5) has begun flying in support of the flight test programme…
In his briefing this afternoon, Leonardo CEO Alessandro Profumo assured the media that certification of the AW609 is now “really close” and underlined the company’s intention to focus of…
