Just saw the new trainer yesterday at HeliExpo. Called the TH180. Looks interesting. They trimmed the tail some and lowered the empty weight. They are shooting for around 1500 pounds. Personally I don't feel the lowered enough. The engine is a Lycoming HIO-390 producing 210hp. Non turbo charged. I think that Enstrom will lose some of the training market they already have the operators in the higher elevation. The rotor head is the same, too bad they didn't go with the elastameric dampers. The reason I was given that hydraulic dampers are better at preventing ground resonance.
They added a governor and electric clutch. I understand the governor, but the electric clutch? The old system works extremely well and has almost no maintenance except for a possible adjustment or two during inspections.
It will be interesting to see how it goes over in the next year or two.
The machine on the floor is a mockup as the only real machine right now is an engineering test machine.