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AS355 NP/ EC135 / EC145

Made for EMS missions

Eurocopter’s light twin-engine helicopters – the AS355 NP, EC135 and EC145 are qualified and certified for use anywhere in the world, however strict the regulations are.

The AS355 NP provides the best quality/price ratio in the twin-engine market. It is the twin-engine version of an outstanding performer, the single-engine AS350 series.

The total AS350/AS355 fleet in service has exceeded 17 million flight hours. The AS355 is one of the most successful twin-engine helicopters in the world, with 720 currently in use. Unrivalled in its class, the EC135 is a very powerful multipurpose helicopter offering outstanding performance and exceptional adaptation to the EMS role. Born of the most recent generation of light twins it is designed to keep operating costs to an absolute minimum.

The EC145 fits your EMS mission as if it were made for it, because it was! The EC145 is everything the world has come to expect from Eurocopter: dependable, efficient, quiet, powerful, comfortable and safe. But its trump card is that it has by far the biggest and best cabin of any helicopter in its class. The EC145 can be configured to fit your needs exactly, whatever they are.
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AS355 NP

The AS355 is renowned as a hardworking, flexible, extremely reliable and economical high-performance helicopter. It can carry one patient and a two medical crew plus pilot and a considerable load on the most demanding high and hot missions at a cruising speed of 222 km/h (120 kts). It is powered by 2 Turbomeca 1A 1 engines, with dual FADEC systems for automatic, care-free engine handling.
It also offers exceptional one-engineinoperative (OEI) performance, which makes it ideal for EMS missions that require a high level of safety above urban environments. The performance has been recently improved with the latest version AS355 NP. This aircraft also offers today the glass-cockpit VEMD man-machine interface, which makes the pilot’s job easier and less tiring.
The AS355 can operate from building helipads in congested areas. It also offers excellent manoeuvrability and easy maintenance. It is fully IFR certified and can be equipped with a 3-axis autopilot.
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EC 135 P2i/T2i

The EC135 gives you the choice of two Turbomeca Arrius 2B2 or two Pratt & Whitney PT206B2 engines, both with dual Full Authority Digital Electronic Control (FADEC) for care-free engine management, guaranteed thrust settings, automatic start-up sequence, optimised fuel efficiency and simplified maintenance. It also offers exceptional One Engine Inoperative performance and is JAR/FAR 27 compliant. Wide lateral doors and rear clamshell doors facilitate access and loading, particularly useful for EMS missions.
Flexibility, comfort, ease of handling, low maintenance; it is not hard to see why the EC135 has become a favourite for costconscious EMS organisations the world over. The state-of-the-art glass cockpit with LCD screen Vehicle and Engine Malfunction Display (VEMD), reduces the pilot’s workload, freeing him for the mission at hand. The bearingless rotor-head, finely “tuned” composite-material rotor blades and third-generation, Fenestron™ shrouded tail rotor all contribute to the EC135’s exceptionally smooth and quiet ride, and low noise signature.
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- AS355 NP
- EC135
- EC145
EC 145

The EC145 offers a flat-floored, unobstructed cabin, wide cockpit and cabin access, plus wide clamshell rear loading doors and extensive glazing. Its size makes it an economical solution for every kind of emergency medical service with room for two patients on litters plus four medical attendants and all their equipment.
This single-pilot, IFR category-A-certified workhorse offers the advanced, glass-cockpit VEMD man-machine interface which makes the pilot’s job easier and less tiring.

The EC145 is fitted with energy-absorbing seats and landing gear, shock-resistant composite materials and redundant design of all critical systems and components.

The EC145 is a record-breaking 6.7 dB below the already strict ICAO limits. The EC145 is particularly well adapted to emergency medical services and flying intensive-care units.