AW101 Combat Search and Rescue

The AW101 CSAR helicopters are fitted with a wide range of equipment, including the Gabbiano radar, communication and self-protection systems, machine guns, armoured pilots’ seats, ballistic protection for gunners and for vital parts of the helicopter, active and passive self-protection systems, in-flight refuelling probe, rescue hoist, high definition electro-optical system, NVG, Head-Up Display, search radar, tactical/satellite radios, video transmission/reception tactical system.

To date, more than 220 AW101 helicopters have been sold worldwide, from Italy to Japan, from Canada to the United Kingdom and Norway.

Developed in the early 1980s by two leading European helicopter manufacturers, Agusta and Westland that, later, combined all their expertise and experience into a single industrial entity that has been absorbed by Leonardo-Finmeccanica’s Helicopter Division.