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Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma
🇫🇷 France ·first flew 1978· medium utility helicopter
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. GFS Super Puma on USS Mobile Bay: United States Navy, photographer not specified· Public domain
- 2. AS332B Super Puma: MilborneOne· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Aerospatiale AS-332 L Super Puma Togo - Air Force, GRQ Groningen (Eelde), Netherlands PP1168187814: Peter Bakema· GFDL 1.2
- 4. Aerospatiale AS-332B1 Super Puma - Lofting: Chris Lofting· GFDL 1.2
- 5. Aerospatiale AS-332M1 Super Puma, France - Army AN0185496: Elisabeth Klimesch· GFDL
- 6. Eurocopter AS332M-1 Super Puma ‘T-319’: Alan Wilson· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 7. Venezuela Air Force Eurocopter AS-332B1 Super Puma AADPR-1: André Austin Du-Pont Rocha· GFDL 1.2
- 8. Airbus Helicopters AS332 Super Puma of the Mexican Air Force: Presidencia de la República Mexicana· CC BY 2.0
- 9. An AS-332 Super Puma helicopter delivers supplies to USS Bonhomme Richard during a replenishment-at-sea. (33581981182): Official U.S. Navy Page from United States of America Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Diana Quinlan/U.S. Navy· Public domain
- 10. AS332 Super Puma UAE: Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Daniel J. McLain· Public domain
what is it?
The Airbus Helicopters H215 (formerly Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma) is a four-bladed, twin-engined, medium-sized, utility helicopter developed and initially produced by French aerospace company Aérospatiale. It has been subsequently manufactured by the successor companies Eurocopter and Airbus Helicopters. The Super Puma is a re-engined and larger version of the original Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma.
How to recognise it: 2 turboshaft engines · 16.2 m main rotor
base stats
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
- First flew 48 years ago, in 1978.
- Top speed is 2.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Rotor of 16.2 m: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
turboshaft: A turbine that turns a shaft, usually a helicopter rotor.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1978-09-13
- introduced
- 1981
- status
- still flying
- number built
- 1,000
- role
- medium utility helicopter
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- makers
- Airbus Helicopters, Indonesian Aerospace, Aérospatiale
- engines
- 2× Turbomeca Makila 1A2
- crew
- 2
- passengers
- 24
- length
- 16.8 m
- rotor diameter
- 16.2 m
- height
- 5 m
- max take-off weight
- 9,150 kg
- top speed
- 278 km/h
- cruise speed
- 277 km/h
- range
- 851 km
- ceiling
- 5,180 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q12257149, Wikipedia: Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.