Eurocopter, MARIGNANE, France: This is at the Eurocopter Marignane facility that the first Hellenic serial production NH90 successfully took to the air today for a 95 minutes flight. The aircraft was flown by Boniface Jean-Pierre ROLDAN, experimental test pilot, Dominique FOURNIER, flight test engineer and Jean-Claude Rabany flight engineer.
This is the sixth serial production NH90 leaving the ground, following NH90s for Germany, Finland, Italy and Sweden.
On 29 August 2003, Greece ordered 20 NH90 firm for a contract total amount of EUR 657 million, including a consistent offset agreement involving Hellenic Aerospace Industry (HAI).
Hellenic NH90s will be operated by the Army, 16 NH90 Tactical Transport in service with the Army Aviation and 4 NH90 with the Special Operation Forces (SOF); both configurations being equipped with Rolls-Royce Turbomeca RTM322-01/9 engines.
Also to be noted is that all NH90 can be converted into Medevac variant thanks to 4 ordered roll change medical kits. 14 optional NH90 are also to be taken into account, concerning up to 12 Tactical Transport and 2 Special Operation variants.
In addition to the famous acknowledge outstanding features common to both Standard Cabin and High Cabin Version of the NH90 (full Fly-By-Wire flight control system, full composite crashworthy airframe, full aircraft/avionics/mission system integration
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