Dear Tannkosh-Crews and visitors,

at Tannkosh 2010 we may welcome, for the first time, a Cougar AS 532!

The Eurocopter AS 532 Cougar is a twin-engined, medium-weight, multipurpose helicopter.

The Cougar was designed to provide high performance, ease of deployment, low operating cost, comfort, plus high mission readiness. Missions include: VIP transport (German Airforce).

The Turbomeca Makila 1A1 turboshafts engines, of modular design and low specific fuel consumption, endows the Cougar with impressive power (2 x 1877 shp). Coupled with exceptionally short response times, contributing to the machine's tactical flight capability. The rotors blades are made of composite materials throughout. By comparison with blades incorporating metallic components, this makes for unsurpassed serviceability, low vulnerability, an unlimited useful life and imperviousness to marine corrosion. Other innovations include a simplified main rotor hub, a main gearbox of modular design and a high-energy-absorption landing-gear contributing to the machine's crashworthiness.

The Cougar is flying in from it's homebase Berlin, from where it is operated as a VIP transport aircraft.

We would like to extend a special welcome to the Crew:

We're looking forward to your visit!

See you at Tannkosh!