Helicopters
(asked on 4th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) S92, (b) AH175 and (c) AW189 helicopter models were issued with airworthiness certificates by the Civil Aviation Authority in (i) 2014, (ii) 2015 and (iii) 2016.
This question was answered on 11th December 2017
Aircraft are issued with a non-expiring Certificate of Airworthiness which is validated each year by an Airworthiness Review Certificate (ARC). The table below shows the number of ARCs validated each year for each aircraft type.
Type | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
Sikorsky S-92 | 42 | 52 | 62 |
Airbus Helicopters EC175B | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Agusta AW189 | 2 | 7 | 9 |