AgustaWestland

Type: Subsidiary
On the web: http://www.agustawestland.com
Employees: 4,000

Tea and pasta may not go down well together, but British and Italian partners GKN and Finmeccanica thought their helicopters a good pairing and so formed AgustaWestland as a 50/50 joint venture in 2001. There's only one hand on the yoke now, however, as Finmeccanica bought out GKN's stake in 2004. AgustaWestland's commercial vehicles include the A119 Koala; the A109 Power; and medium transports AB412, AW139, and BA609 Tiltrotor. Military offerings include the multi-role AH MK1; the 10.6-ton NH90; and the US101, which will be the new US presidential helicopter. AgustaWestland also produces the Apache helicopter under license from Boeing.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $102.2M

Officers:
Chairman: Amedeo Caporaletti
CEO: Military Aircraft Manufacturing

Competitors:
Bell Helicopter
Boeing
Eurocopter

AgustaWestland NV

Type	Private (subsidiary of Finmeccanica)
Founded	2000
Headquarters	Samarate (Varese), Italy Yeovil, Somerset, UK
Industry	Aerospace
Products	Helicopters
Employees	8,531 (2005)
Parent	Finmeccanica
Website	www.agustawestland.com

AgustaWestland is a helicopter design and manufacturing company based in Italy and Somerset, in the United Kingdom. It was formed in July 2000 when Finmeccanica S.p.A. and GKN plc agreed to merge their respective helicopter subsidiaries (Agusta and Westland Helicopters) to form AgustaWestland with Finmeccanica and GKN each holding a 50% share.

On May 26, 2004 GKN confirmed that it would sell its share to its partner for £1.06Bn. AgustaWestland is now a fully owned subsidiary of Finmeccanica of Italy.

AgustaWestland opened offices in Philadelphia in 2005, and won a contract to build the new presidential helicopter Marine One over the U.S. manufacturer Sikorsky Aircraft.

Products

• EH101/AW101
• VH-71 Kestrel - The cancelled VIP variant of the EH101 for the United States Marine Corps Marine One contract. Partnered with Lockheed Martin and Bell Helicopter.
• AW109S Grand
• AW139 (formerly the AB139, was a 50% joint venture with Bell Helicopter)
• AW149
• AgustaWestland AW159 Lynx Wildcat
• Former Agusta products:
  • A109/AW109
  • AW119
  • A129 Mangusta
• Former Westland products:
  • Super Lynx 300
• Joint ventures:
  • NH90 (32% share)
  • BA609 (50% share)
• Licensed production:
  • AB412
  • Westland WAH-64 Apache version of the Boeing Apache AH64 (67 built for the British Army) production started under GKN-Westland

Gallery

AW101	AW139	Westland Lynx	A109K2
A-129CBT Mangusta	BA609	Agusta Bell AB412	WAH64 Apache

External links

• AgustaWestland Official Website
• AgustaWestland section of helis.com Helicopter History site

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