Bristow to Operate U.K.’s Finmeccanica Rescue Helicopters
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Bristow Group Inc. won a 1.6 billion-pound ($2.4 billion) U.K. government contract to operate search-and-rescue helicopters made by Finmeccanica SA and United Technologies Corp.
Bristow will provide land and sea service extending as far as 250 nautical miles offshore from 10 sites around the U.K., the Department for Transport, which ran the competition for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, said today in a statement. Houston-based Bristow will use 12 S-92 helicopters built by United Technologies’ Sikorsky division and 10 AW189s from Finmeccanica’s AgustaWestland unit, the department said.