Airbus Helicopters

Airbus Helicopters is the helicopter manufacturing division of Airbus, with its head office at Marseille Provence Airport in Marignane, France. It was formed in 1992 as Eurocopter S.A. through the merger of the helicopter divisions of Aérospatiale and DASA, ownership at first being split 70 and 30 percent between the two parents to reflect their market weight, and it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Airbus when that group was founded in 2000. The company took its present name on 2 January 2014. Its main facilities are in Marignane and Donauwörth, with further plants in Spain, Brazil, Canada, Australia, Romania, the United Kingdom and the United States. Its lineage includes the first production turboshaft helicopter, the Fenestron shrouded tail rotor and the first helicopter landing on Mount Everest, and by 2020 it held 48 percent of the worldwide helicopter market.