

Airbus has shipped the last Dauphin helicopter, an AS365 N3, to the Spanish Customs Service. This helicopter will enhance the Customs Surveillance Services potential to overcome drug trafficking in the Strait of Gibraltar, the Alboran Sea, and in Galicia.


The helicopter was customised at Airbus Helicopters facilities in Albacete and will come equipped with mission machines these kinds of as an electro-optical system, a radar, a tactical communications process and a search gentle, considering the fact that most of the patrol flights get spot at evening. Many thanks to its lengthy-array gas tanks, the Spanish Customs Dauphin can fly up to 3 hours and 30 minutes and attain a rapid cruise pace of 145 kts an essential asset when it comes to achieving the vessels of drug traffickers.


The Spanish Customs three Dauphins perform maritime patrol missions to observe, chase, and intercept high-speed smuggling boats normally transporting contraband. In 2021, the Dauphin helicopters contributed to the seizure of far more than 200 tons of illegal medications in Spain, working with the Tailor made Services 45 vessels and land units.


The Spanish Customs has been a longstanding spouse considering that 1985 and we are really very pleased of how, due to the fact the 1st Dauphin was handed over to them in 2002, these helicopters have carried out essential tasks for the population these as the battle in opposition to drug trafficking in a hostile ecosystem, claimed Fernando Lombo, Handling Director of Airbus Helicopters in Spain. Thank you to the girls and adult males at Customs who are using full benefit of the Dauphins maritime patrol capabilities, flying the exceptional determine of pretty much 1,000 hours a yr with each Dauphin to defend our community.


This is the final helicopter of the famous Dauphin family members that has been manufactured in Marignane by Airbus Helicopters. Around the earlier forty a long time, more than 1,100 helicopters have been generated, traveling seven million several hours in 70 different nations around the world. Amid its several milestones, the accomplishment of the globe speed report in November 1991 stands out, when the Dauphin arrived at 201 kts on a 3 km route.
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