FARNBOROUGH, England (Reuters) - Italian defence group Leonardo Finmeccanica plans to restart testing of its prototype tilt rotor AW609 aircraft in the coming months following a crash that killed two ...

ANAHEIM, California—Leonardo is performing a study with Italy’s armed forces on potential missions for the company’s AW609 commercial tiltrotor. Demonstrations with the AW609 prototypes could follow ...

DUBAI, Nov 10 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Defence on Tuesday said it had signed a memorandum of understanding with AgustaWestland, a unit of Italy's Finmeccanica SpA, to buy ...

Photo: Leonardo S.p.A. I've been working on branching out from my usual topics lately, and as I did, I ran across an Italian helicopter manufacturer with a history dating back as far as 1923. This is ...

AW609 test pilots say neither helicopter, nor fixed-wing pilots will find it hard to transition to flying a tiltrotor. Operators who lease their aircraft find the Hawkeye 7200 particularly useful, ...

Leonardo Helicopters has revealed the successful conclusion of an initial phase of ship-landing trials for its AW609 tiltrotor as part of a project with the Italian military. Performed over a 10-day ...

A Eurodrone — a European medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft system — was on display during the 2023 Paris Air Show. (Geoffroy van der Hasselt/AFP via Getty Images) ROME — Work ...

The company is working with the FAA on certification, but it has not yet released a timeline for that. A few flights in the engineering sim suggest the tiltrotor will be a smooth transition for both ...

Leonardo SpA said it’s redistributing work at one of its Italian facilities by adding production of its tilt-rotor aircraft as output slows for Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliner program. The Grottaglie ...