{"id":89,"date":"2011-02-12T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=89"},"modified":"2011-02-12T12:00:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T12:00:18","slug":"eurocopter-sells-five-choppers-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Eurocopter sells five choppers in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangalore: European helicopter manufacturer Eurocopter on Friday announced it has sold five AS350 B3 passenger transport helicopters to three Indian customers .<br \/>\nThree were ordered by Global Vectra, whose fleet will grow to seven AS350 B3s, while Summit Aviation and SS Aviation purchased one each.<br \/>\n&#8220;All five are scheduled to be delivered during 2011,&#8221; said Eurocopter president and CEO Lutz Bertling here on the sidelines of Aero India-2011.<br \/>\n&#8220;Seeing this trend, we are confident the AS350 B3 will be instrumental in developing such segments as heli-tourism, passenger transportation, rescue, aerial work and law enforcement throughout the country,&#8221; Bertling said.<br \/>\nCapable of performing at extremely high altitudes, the AS350 B3 single-engine helicopter can carry more passengers in hot and high conditions than any other rotary-wing aircraft in its class.<br \/>\nThe AS350 B3 has experienced major success in heli-skiing applications at such locations as the Alps in Europe, North America&#8217;s Rocky Mountains and Alaska, and the Andes in South America &#8211; with operations now extended to the Himalayas in India.<br \/>\n11\/02\/11 IANS\/<a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/news-by-industry\/transportation\/airlines-\/-aviation\/eurocopter-sells-five-choppers-in-india\/articleshow\/7475970.cms\" target=\"_blank\">Times of India<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangalore: European helicopter manufacturer Eurocopter on Friday announced it has sold five AS350 B3 passenger transport helicopters to three Indian customers . Three were ordered by Global Vectra, whose fleet will grow to seven AS350 B3s, while Summit Aviation and SS Aviation purchased one each. &#8220;All five are scheduled to be delivered during 2011,&#8221; said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,18,26,19,91,90],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-as350-b3","tag-eads","tag-eurocopter","tag-europe","tag-eurupe","tag-global-vectra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}