OREANDA-NEWS. On 24 March 2009 was announced, that UTair Aviation and Eurocopter signed an agreement on creating a large technical support centre in the course of an international exhibition Heli Expo in Anaheim (California, the USA) in February, 2009. The document provides an establishment of a certified centre for the maintenance of Eurocopter helicopters based on UTair Aviation powers. Moreover, the partners are inclined to establish an educational centre for the preparation of a flight-technical staff for the maintenance and exploitation of rotary-wing aircrafts by Eurocopter.

 A makeup of a corporative interior of a new helicopter model Eurocopter - ЕS 175 was also exhibited during the Heli Expo 2009 exhibition. A contract on the delivery of 15 aircrafts with the possibility of option for 15 was signed in 2008. The interior designing for ES 175 was the result of a close cooperation between UTair and Eurocopter.

 "We’re sure that the helicopters of ES 075 assemblage will become the best aircrafts for the personnel transportation to the oil and gas platforms", – the head of helicopter commercial UTair Aviation complex – Aleksey Vinogradov considers.

 A year of close cooperation between the two companies shows that Eurocopter lives up to all the expectations of UTair – the vice-president of Eurocopter branch in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Olivier Michalon, presumed.