2
Photo Info

Fourth AW609 (AC4) moved to Italy from Leonardo’s Philadelphia facility

From Leonardo | April 16, 2021

Estimated reading time 2 minutes, 20 seconds.

The fourth AW609 (AC4), fully representative of the final production configuration, was shipped from Leonardo’s Philadelphia facility where it was built on its production line, to Genoa’s harbor in Italy where it was offloaded and later flown to Leonardo Helicopters’ headquarters in Cascina Costa di Samarate, close to Milan-Malpensa Airport, arriving on Mar. 2, 2021. 

Leonardo’s recent transfer of the fourth AW609 (AC4) from Philadelphia to Italy allows the company to maintain production representative aircraft in both the U.S. and Europe. Leonardo Photo

The aircraft is scheduled to remain there to support the final stage of program testing ahead of civil certification. The AC4 transfer to Italy allows Leonardo to maintain production representative aircraft both in the U.S. and Italy as the first prototype – AC1, is now solely used for ground-based and load testing. Furthermore, when appropriate, AC4 will also allow customer-dedicated demonstration activities for European operators and other potential users worldwide, mirroring similar activities to be carried out by aircraft in the U.S. for customers in the Americas and other geographies. The transfer of AC4 to Italy brings the program to the next market-oriented stage. The industrialization, customer service and training service of the AW609 program intensifies in Philadelphia through the new training academy and new final assembly hangar.

This story was prepared and distributed by Leonardo.

Leave a comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

HAI Heli-Expo 2024 Recap

Notice a spelling mistake or typo?

Click on the button below to send an email to our team and we will get to it as soon as possible.

Report an error or typo

Have a story idea you would like to suggest?

Click on the button below to send an email to our team and we will get to it as soon as possible.

Suggest a story