Helicopter taxonomy updates

In response to feedback from customers, we are pleased to announce some taxonomy changes to our helicopter types.

For the AW139, we have now added Short Nose and Long Nose modifiers.

Short and Long nose added as Modifier.
Figure 1. Short and Long nose added as Modifier.

For the the H145 / EC145 family, to help customers find models we have tried to incorporate their technical and marketing descriptions so we have updated the sub series as follows:

OLD VERSION NEW VERSION NOTES
EC145 C2 (BK117 C2) EC145 C2 (BK117 C2) No change
EC145 C2 (BK117 C2) LUH EC145 C2 (BK117 C2) LUH No change
EC145 e EC145 e (BK117 C2e) Added BK117 C2e – technical designation
H145 (EC145 T2) H145 T2 (BK117 D2) Marketing name and technical designation now included
H145M (EC645 T2) LUH H145M T2 (BK117 D2) Marketing name and technical designation now included
H145 (Five Blade) H145 D3 (BK117 D3) Marketing name and technical designation now included
H145M (Five Blade) H145M D3 (BK117 D3) Marketing name and technical designation now included

All data changes will be completed by Monday 11th November.