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Norway Sealing Deal With AugustaWestland For Helicopters

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Tuesday, December 17th, 2013

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Norway Sealing Deal With AugustaWestland For Helicopters

The AW101 Helicopter. Photo: AugustaWestland.

The Norwegian government intends to sign a contract with AugustaWestland this week for 16 search and rescue helicopters in a deal worth about $1 billion. The Ministry of Justice and Public Security is purchasing the AW101airframe helicopters to replace its aging fleet of Sea King helicopters, which were built by Sikorsky, a division of United Technologies [UTX]. The government and AugustaWestland, a unit of Italy’s Finmeccanica, plan to ink the deal in a signing ceremony Thursday, according to the ministry’s…

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