The first Leonardo AW149 helicopter for the Polish Armed Forces has flown. The first Leonardo AW149 multirole helicopter for the Polish Land Forces carried out the first test flights at the company’s ...

The maiden flight of the first locally assembled AW149s took place April 14. Credit: Polish Armament Agency Poland’s PZL-Swidnik has completed the first flight of a locally assembled Leonardo AW149 ...

After an official announcement at Leonardo’s Yeovil plant on Feb. 26 was scrubbed at the last minute, it is now reported that the UK Treasury has finally given the delay-plagued program its approval.

LONDON — Executives at helicopter maker Leonardo pushed back against a competitor’s assertion that the Italian company’s AW149 helicopter, in play for the British New Medium Helicopter program, isn’t ...

The first of 27 domestically built AW149s for the Polish Army made its maiden flight on 14 April. Three initial Italian-built helicopters have already been delivered and are in service. (PZL-Świdnik) ...

Italy’s defense ministry in October gave the green light to development of a new attack helicopter based on Leonardo Helicopters’ AW149. To be funded by Italy’s economic development ministry, the ...

PZL Swidnik, the Polish subsidiary of Leonardo Helicopters, has opened a new production line that will build AW149 battlefield transports for the Polish Land Forces. Warsaw in 2022 ordered 32 of the ...

Poland formally accepted the first two of 32 Leonardo AW149 armed battlefield utility helicopters on 30 October. (Polish Ministry of National Defense) Poland has formally accepted the first two of 32 ...

The Polish army’s first two Leonardo Helicopters AW149s were handed over to its 25th Air Cavalry Brigade on 30 October, during a ceremony in Tomaszow Mazowiecki. The pair were assigned to the unit’s ...

A Leonardo AW149 helicopter is displayed at the Farnborough Airshow in Farnborough on July 18, 2022. (Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images) LONDON — Executives at helicopter maker Leonardo pushed back ...