Civil Aviation

Civil helicopter

Thales is a global leader in advanced technologies, providing innovative solutions for civil helicopters. Our systems enhance safety, efficiency, performance, integrating avionics, flight control systems, and communication equipment. With a commitment to reliability and innovation, Thales supports operators worldwide in achieving mission success and operational excellence.

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Thales enhances civil helicopter operations with advanced avionics, connectivity, mission, training and simulation systems. Thales provides comprehensive linefit and retrofit solutions to ensure safety and efficiency for emergency services, utility transport, law enforcement, and Search & Rescue (SAR) missions. Our innovative technologies and support ensure superior operational readiness for helicopters worldwide.

Key challenges

Why choose Thales for civil helicopters?

  1. Mission readiness

    Mission success goes hand-in-hand with mission readiness, which involves providing comprehensive training and simulation to handle various scenarios, maintaining helicopter reliability, and delivering the technology to enable quick, safe, and efficient responses to diverse requirements.

  2. Flight safety and efficiency

    Flight safety and efficiency are constants in civil helicopter usage. Everything we deliver is designed to mitigate human error, technical failure, and external threats while ensuring compliance with rigorous standards and protocols to protect passengers and crew.

  3. Fleet availability

    A key to helicopter mission success and operational excellence is fleet availability. Dedicated structures at Thales ensure timely maintenance and repair through innovative service level and by-the-hour contracts, maximizing helicopter fleet uptime and reliability.

KEY FIGURES FOR THE CIVIL HELICOPTER MARKET

5,000
civil helicopters equipped with Thales avionic components
110
helicopter simulators supplied by Thales in service
1,500
product references serviced and supported

Our solutions

Reality H® Full Flight Simulator

World-leading helicopter simulator for military and civil operational preparation

  • Train & sustain
  • Force readiness
  • Helicopter

FlytX avionics suite for helicopter connected cockpits

FlytX new generation flight deck

  • Helicopter
  • Defence
  • Air

Helicopter Avionics Support Services

Delivering, maintaining, and upgrading helicopters avionics systems & equipment

  • Civil Aviation
  • Civil helicopter

Thales autopilot solutions for aircraft and helicopter

Thales' autopilot solutions for forwardfit and retrofit integration for civil and military airplane

  • Air combat
  • Helicopter
  • Civil Aviation

LATEST NEWS

  • Civil Aviation

Thales and StandardAero’s StableLight™ Autopilot chosen by leading helicopter operator Heli Austria

Press release
  • Civil Aviation

HTAWS: the smart collision avoidance system for helicopters

News in Brief
  • Civil Aviation

Atlantic Airways inaugurates new flight training centre in the Faroe Islands, powered by Thales’s helicopter pilot training solutions

Press release

FIELDS OF APPLICATION

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