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Article: United States: Eurocopter Seeks US Partners for Projects.
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- January 21, 2009
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Byline: kusumv03
Eurocopter is looking for American partners on a proposed European heavy-lift helicopter and its bid for the U.S. Army's Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH), CEO Lutz Bertling said Jan. 20.
The European helicopter maker, an EADS subsidiary, is in early talks with Boeing and Sikorsky as potential partners for a Future Transport Helicopter, he told a New Year's press conference here.
France and Germany support the large helicopter project, which is one of the top priorities of the European Defence Agency's head, Alexander Weis, Bertling said.
"There is some trans-Atlantic work to be done," he said, with the possibility ...