Cabri certification
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Two-seat Cabri G2 awarded EASA Certification
On Saturday, December the 15th, Alain Leroy, EASA head of products certification, will hand over to Bruno Guimbal, Helicopteres Guimbal president, the EASA CS-27 certification of their Cabri G2 helicopter, following the company EASA Part-21 certification.
This event will take place during the prestigious grand opening of the new Musee de l’Air et de l’Espace rotorcraft hall, by French minister of defense Herve Morin, at Paris Le Bourget. The new rotorcraft hall is part of the 100th anniversary of first helicopter celebration.
The Cabri G2 is an entirely new two-seat helicopter, featuring for the first time in this category, the modern technologies that make European helicopters success for years.
Its EASA CS-27 certification, the most demanding ever, rewards many safety-oriented innovations : a high-maneuverability composite main rotor, a shrouded tail rotor, crashworthy structure, seats and fuel system, protection against lightning and radio-frequencies, and a digital multiple display.
The complete certification program involved 300 flight testing hours and many ground tests, in a 2 ˝ year timeframe.
Helicopteres Guimbal is a 14-people company, located at Aix-en-Provence airport, southern France, created end-2000 by Bruno Guimbal, a former Eurocopter engineer.
It benefited from several research grants, and from many aerospace companies partnership. It is associated to Eurocopter in Vertivision, a joint-venture developing the VSR-700 drone, a derivative from the Cabri-G2, which benefits from a design contract from the Direction Generale de l’Armement.
The Cabri G2 is the first piston-helicopter certified in Europe. This market represents several hundreds of helicopters per year, evenly spread in the world, in steady expansion for 30 years.
The first serial Cabri G2 delivery to its launch customer, the French operator IXAIR, is scheduled first quarter 2008.
The certification aircraft will be flown to Paris le Bourget airport for the event.