Helicopter Life Cycle Support

Patria participates in one of the leading European civil helicopter exhibitions, European Rotors 2024 on 4–7 (exhibits open 5–7) November at RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre, The Netherlands. European Rotors is a four-day business-to-business event offering certified training sessions, seminars, and workshops, making it a hub for industry leaders to conduct business and share knowledge. At the event Patria showcases its Through Life capabilities, where the focus is helicopter maintenance capabilities and related offering.

Patria’s stand location is 6002

Extreme conditions embedded - Patria’s highlighted offering at European Rotors

Through life capability  

Patria OPTIME covers a broad range of services and solutions impacting the helicopter fleet availability, such as fleet maintenance, upcoming modification projects and needed integrations in the later stages of the lifecycle as well as supply chain management and training services.

Patria co-operates closely with a wide range of Original Equipment Manufactures, OEM’s, and being certified Service Centre for Bell, Airbus and Leonardo Helicopters, Patria supplies Airframe and component MRO as well as spare parts for a large number of their helicopter models. 

Patria OPTIME for NH90 covers services for the entire lifecycle of the NH90 fleet, from scheduled and unscheluded maintenance to major upgrades and repairs, ensuring optimal availability and performance. Patria has proven track record maintaining the Finnish NH90 helicopters and ensures Finnish NH90 fleet availability for operations.

Patria and United Aero Group (UAG) entered in 2023 into strategic cooperation agreement to acquire pre-owned Black Hawks from US Army and perform as-new refurbishment programmes and upgrades including mission kit installations. After undergoing this modernization Black Hawks will be capable of taking on a wider range of missions with increased efficiency and capabilities. 

For further information:  

Hugo Vanbockryck, Senior Vice President, Market Area Europe, Patria,  tel.+32 471 98 91 01, [email protected]  

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Patria is an international provider of defence, security and aviation life cycle support services, technology solutions and pilot training. Patria provides its aerospace and military customers with equipment availability, continuous performance development as well as selected intelligence, surveillance and management system products and services. Patria’s mission is to give its customers confidence in all conditions, and the vision is to be the #1 partner for critical operations on land, sea and air. Patria has several locations including Finland, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Estonia, Latvia and Spain. Patria employs over 3,000 professionals. Patria is owned by the State of Finland (50.1%) and Norwegian Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS (49.9%). Patria owns 50% of Nammo, and together these three companies form a leading Nordic defence partnership. www.patriagroup.com