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The AgustaWestland AW109S Grand is a lightweight, twin-engine, eight-seat multi-purpose
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helicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attribu ...
built by the Anglo-Italian manufacturer AgustaWestland
AgustaWestland was an Anglo-Italian helicopter design and manufacturing company, which was a wholly owned subsidiary of Finmeccanica (now known as Leonardo). It was formed in July 2000 as an Anglo-Italian multinational company, when Finmeccani ...
. This rotorcraft has been developed from AgustaWestland AW109 by lengthening the cabin and main rotor blades with different tip design. The Agusta Grand is fitted with two Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207C engines whereas its predecessor AW109E has two Pratt & Whitney Canada PW206C engines. It originally entered service in 2005 and has since been used in various roles, including light transport, medevac
Medical evacuation, often shortened to medevac or medivac, is the timely and efficient movement and en route care provided by medical personnel to wounded being evacuated from a battlefield, to injured patients being evacuated from the scene of a ...
, search-and-rescue, and military roles.
Variants
;A109S Grand: Marketed as the ''AW109 Grand'', has a lengthened cabin-upgraded civilian version with two Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207C engines and lengthened main rotor blades with different tip design from the previous AW109E version. ;AW109SP GrandNew:Single pilot IFR,TAWS
In aviation, a terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS) is generally an on-board system aimed at preventing unintentional impacts with the ground, termed "controlled flight into terrain" accidents, or CFIT.Federal Aviation AdministrationInsta ...
and EVS, with new avionics and front section of the fuselage made from carbon fiber
Carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (American English), carbon-fibre-reinforced polymers (Commonwealth English), carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics, carbon-fiber reinforced-thermoplastic (CFRP, CRP, CFRTP), also known as carbon fiber, carbon compo ...
to reduce weight.
;AW109SP "Da Vinci":Customised version of the ''AW109SP'' for REGA (Swiss Air Rescue), with fixed landing gear.
;AW109 Trekker:''AW109S Grand'' airframe with fixed landing skids, equipped with a Genesys Aerosystems glass cockpit.
Specifications (A109S Grand with PW207)
See also
References
External links
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{{Use dmy dates, date=September 2019 Agusta aircraft Search and rescue helicopters AW109 Italian helicopters 1980s Italian helicopters Italian civil utility aircraft Italian military utility aircraft Twin-turbine helicopters Aircraft first flown in 1988