Wed, Mar 30, 2011
Contract Includes Options For Four Additional Aircraft
The Canadian survey company Geotech Ltd. has signed a contract
with AgustaWestland for one AW119Ke helicopter plus options for
four additional aircraft. The helicopter will be used by company
subsidiary Geotech Aviation Ltd. for airborne geophysical surveys
serving the mining, oil & gas and environmental industries. The
AW119Ke will be based in Sudbury, Ontario. Built in Philadelphia,
the first aircraft will be delivered in June 2011.
"Geotech's airborne geophysical survey equipment leads that
market in both sophistication and efficiency, and the AW119Ke was
the only aircraft that would allow Geotech to fully exploit their
cutting edge technology to its competitive limit," said Lou
Bartolotta, Executive Vice President Sales for North America. "This
sale is significant to our presence in the Canadian airborne survey
market."
David Lauzon of Geotech Aviation Ltd. added, "We selected the
AW119Ke because it offers excellent value and improved performance.
With this new platform, we will have expanded capability and will
better serve our customers."
The AW119 Koala enhanced is an 8 seat
single engine helicopter developed to strengthen safety and provide
high productivity and performance at a competitive price. The cabin
can be repidly re-configured for a variety of emergency medical
services missions. Around 190 helicopters have been ordered
by over 90 customers in approximately 30 countries so far.
Geotech Aviation Ltd. is a sister company of Geotech Ltd. which
provides full service rotary and fixed wing contract airborne
geophysical surveys, data processing and data interpretation. At
the present time Geotech Ltd. offers VTEM (helicopter-borne
time-domain electromagnetic), ZTEM and AirMt (measure natural
alternating magnetic fields in the audio-frequency range),
magnetic, magnetic gradient and gamma-ray spectrometer surveys.
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