Air Centre Helicopters signs services contract for H225 fleet

Air Center Helicopters (ACHI) has signed an Airbus HCare In-Service contract to support its fleet of H225 helicopters on a variety of worldwide missions for the next five years. The include expeditionary airlift, personnel recovery, search and rescue, medevac, Department of Defense, real-world scenario training and disaster relief missions. The full-by-the-hour (FBH) programme provides ‘tip to tail’ replacement coverage of components and is paid at a fixed rate per flight hour, resulting in decreased aircraft downtime and more stable maintenance expenses for ACHI. It augments a previous HCare parts-by-the-hour contract for ten of ACHI’s aircraft which was announced in 2019.