NH90 Customers Still Frustrated By Spares And Reliability Problems

With 250 helicopters in service and almost 70,000 flight hours achieved fleet-wide, it would seem that global NH90 operations would finally be gaining traction. Several customers have flown the NHIndustries (NHI) helicopter in Afghanistan and carried out anti-piracy missions off Somalia, and France is flying it in Central Africa. Yet small problems that blighted the helicopter in its earliest days of operation are still causing concern today.
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