AgustaWestland opens new service centre in Chile

AgustaWestland announced
that a new AgustaWestland service centre has been opened by AVIASUR to provide
maintenance and other support services for AgustaWestland commercial helicopter
customers. The service centre is located at AVIASUR’s modern facility at Santiago’s Arturo
Merino Benítez
International Airport
in Chile.

AgustaWestland now has over
eighty service centres around the world, the company will continue to expand
the network. AgustaWestland is continuing to increase its market share in South
America and now has 17 of its helicopters operating in Chile
comprising eight AW119 Koalas, seven AW109s, one Grand and one W-3A Sokol. The
first GrandNew light twin helicopter is scheduled to be delivered to Chile later
this year.