AgustaWestland AW109S Grand

what is it?

The AgustaWestland AW109S Grand is a lightweight, twin-engine, eight-seat multi-purpose helicopter built by the Italian manufacturer AgustaWestland. This rotorcraft has been developed from AgustaWestland AW109 by lengthening the cabin and main rotor blades with different tip design. The Agusta Grand is fitted with two Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207C engines whereas its predecessor AW109E has two Pratt & Whitney Canada PW206C engines.

🔎How to recognise it: 2 turboshaft engines · 10.8 m main rotor

base stats

• speed 311 km/htop speed
• seats 7passengers
• size 3,175 kgmax take-off weight

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🏎️Top speed is 2.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Rotor of 10.8 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.

turboshaft: A turbine that turns a shaft, usually a helicopter rotor.

spec sheet

first flight

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introduced

2005

status

in production

number built

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role

sar/utility helicopter

makers

AgustaWestland

engines

2× Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207C

crew

1

passengers

7

length

13 m

rotor diameter

10.8 m

height

3.4 m

max take-off weight

3,175 kg

top speed

311 km/h

cruise speed

289 km/h

range

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ceiling

4,938 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.

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