AgustaWestland AW109S Grand

The AgustaWestland AW109S Grand is a lightweight, twin-engine, eight-seat multi-purpose helicopter developed from the AW109 by lengthening the cabin and the main rotor blades, which also have a different tip design. Where the earlier AW109E carried two Pratt and Whitney Canada PW206C engines, the Grand is fitted with two PW207C engines. It originally entered service in 2005 and has since served in light transport, medevac, search and rescue and military roles. Variants include the AW109SP GrandNew, a single pilot instrument flight rules version with new avionics and a carbon fibre forward fuselage to save weight, the AW109SP Da Vinci built for REGA, Swiss Air Rescue, with fixed landing gear, and the AW109 Trekker, which puts the Grand airframe on fixed skids with a Genesys Aerosystems glass cockpit.