Camcopter S-100 increases experience on French Navy patrol vessel
Source: Schiebel, 17-Jun-13
Since the OPV (Offshore Patrol Vessel) L´Adroit was officially made available to the French Navy in October 2011, the CAMCOPTER® S-100 Unmanned Air System (UAS) was able to prove its highly efficient maritime capability repeatedly. The Gowind Class L’Adroit, build by DCNS, has been designed to operate, amongst other capabilities, a UAS, and by installing [...]
Eurocopter hands over NH90s to Belgium and France
Source: Eurocopter, 01-Jan-13
Eurocopter achieved a new milestone on 21st December in its NH90 program with two ceremonies held at its Marignane facility near Marseille in the south of France, during which the manufacturer delivered Belgium’s first NH90 Tactical Transport Helicopter (TTH) in the presence of the Belgian Defense Minister Pieter de Crem; along with the French DGA [...]
French Navy awards support contract for NH90 FLASH sonars
Source: Thales, 30-Oct-12
The NATO Helicopter Management Agency (NAHEMA), in the name of the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA), has awarded Thales a two-year contract, with a three-year extension close, to support 14 FLASH dipping sonars on the French Navy’s 27 NH90 NFH helicopters. Thales has extensive experience in the delivery of through-life support services for underwater warfare [...]
Turbomeca renews Global Support Package with French Government
Source: Turbomeca, 21-Sep-12
Turbomeca (Safran group) has renewed the “MCO” (Global Support Package) contract, entitled MCO 2*, with the French Government. Turbomeca undertakes, under the terms of this contract, to ensure availability of the 1,408 turbo-shaft engines equipping French Government helicopters for a 10-year period. These helicopters are used for military and paragovernmental missions of the French Air [...]
Eurocopter delivers second NH90 to French Army and seventh to French Navy
Source: Eurocopter, 31-Jul-12
The French DGA armament procurement agency has taken delivery today of its second NH90 Tactical Transport Helicopter (TTH) and seventh NH90 NATO Frigate Helicopter (NFH), marking an important step forward in the largest European helicopter program launched to date. The ceremony celebrating this dual delivery was held at the Marignane, France headquarters of Eurocopter, and [...]
French Navy returns second Dauphin to NHV
Source: HeliHub.com, 01-May-12
The French Navy has completed its lease of a AS365N2 Dauphin – and returned it to Belgian operator NHV. The helicopter was noted outside NHV’s base at Ostend on Saturday, covered over and with its main rotor blades removed. It is expected to be repainted back from the grey/red French Navy scheme to the standard [...]
Thales to provide GPS SAASM receivers for French Navy Lynx
Source: Thales, 09-Apr-12
Thales has been awarded a contract by the Service Industriel de l’Aéronautique (SIAé), France’s military aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul service, to supply stand-alone GPS receivers for the French Navy’s Lynx helicopters, which are currently being upgraded by the French defence procurement agency (DGA). Thales’s GNSS 1000-S receiver relies on SAASM (Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module) [...]
NH-90 Caiman makes first deck landing on FREMM Aquitaine
Source: DCNS, 13-Mar-12
A few weeks after the first helicopter landing trials on board the FREMM Aquitaine frigate, DCNS, the French Navy and the French defence procurement agency (DGA) have successfully completed a new series of deck landing trials, this time with new Caiman Marine (NH90) heavy lift helicopter which recently entered operational service with the French Navy. Having successfully conducted [...]
DCNS conducts first helicopter deck landing trials on FREMM Aquitaine
Source: DCNS, 22-Feb-12
DCNS has achieved formal qualification of the FREMM frigate Aquitaine‘s flight deck for operations with the Lynx helicopter. This milestone was reached several months ahead of schedule after a successful deck landing campaign at sea, organised by the French defence procurement agency (DGA) in early February. Trials were conducted with a Lynx helicopter operated by [...]
First medical evacuation by French NH90 completed
Source: French Navy, 04-Jan-12
[electronic translation] December 31, 2011, the Cayman NH90 NFH of the flotilla of 33F-Lanvéoc Poulmic conducted its first medical evacuation, one of the missions assigned to this new helicopter for the Navy. December 31 at 8 am 30, the operational center of the Navy in Brest contacts the driver alert fleet 33E of the BAN-Lanvéoc [...]
France’s NH90 Caiman Marine completes first SAR mission – 19 rescued
Source: HeliHub.com, 17-Dec-11
At 2am on Friday morning, 16th September 2011, the cargo ship TK Bremen ran aground 2km south of the mouth of the Etel river on the Brittany coast of France. The ship had left the port of Lorient in the afternoon, intending to anchor north of the island of Groix to await better weather and [...]
Camcopter makes first flights from French patrol vessel
Source: Schiebel, 29-Nov-11
Schiebel s CAMCOPTER® S-100 Unmanned Air System (UAS) has once again successfully proven its highly efficient maritime capability, this time onboard the new Gowind class OPV (Offshore Patrol Vessel), L ADROIT built by DCNS and handed over to the French Navy in October 2011. Operating at the cutting edge of technology, the S-100 successfully completed [...]
France to conduct sea trials with unmanned Little Bird
Source: Flightglobal, 04-Nov-11
France will perform at-sea trials with an unmanned Boeing H-6U Little Bird helicopter next year using a developmental automatic landing system. (see full story)
First “Standard 2″ Panther delivered to French Navy
Source: DGA, 29-Jun-11
The Directorate General for Armaments (DGA) has delivered the first helicopter Panther “standard 2″ to the Navy May 31, 2011. The entire fleet of the Navy Panther, 16 helicopters, will be the standards of this new standard by 2016. This new version improves the interoperability of NATO helicopter through the integration of data link L11. [...]
French Navy’s 34F Squadron celebrates 100,000 flight hours on Alouette III and Lynx
Source: HeliHub.com, 23-Jun-11
On June 16, 2011, the French Navy’s 34F squadron celebrated its 100,000 flight hours on Alouette III and Lynx at Lanvéoc-Poulmic base. Present were pilots, crew members, technicians, past and present – to celebrate this important event with nearly 13,000 flight hours performed on Alouette III and 87,000 on Lynx . Vice Admiral Olivier de [...]
France’s DGA delivers the first maritime safety EC225 to French Navy
Source: DGA, 03-May-10
The Directorate General for Armaments (DGA) have delivered the first of two EC225 helicopters to the French Navy, ordered in December 2009 for maritime safety tasks. The ceremony was held on April 22 at the naval aviation base at Lanvéoc (Finistère). The second EC225 to be delivered in June. Both aircraft will replace the Super [...]
France’s 35F unit rescued 196 people in 2009
Source: Mer et Marine, 22-Mar-10
Flying from bases at Le Touquet, Cherbourg, Lanvéoc-Poulmic and La Rochelle Hyères, the 35F unit flew 529 operational missions in 2009, flying 750 hours and rescuing 196 people
Construction well under way of French NH90 base at Lanvéoc
Source: Mer et Maritime, 13-Feb-10
A new building to ensure the future support of the NH90 helicopters Navy is being built on naval aviation base at Lanvéoc-Poulmic
Schiebel signs Camcopter contract with French military
Source: Scheibel, 02-Dec-09
Following the success with the first UAS ever to fly at the Paris Air Show in June 2009, Schiebel has now won a contract with the Direction générale de l’armement (DGA).
