The AW609 goes beyond the limits of helicopters and is not limited by the constraints which affect airplanes: the need for airports and long runways. This brings multiple benefits for passengers.

Leonardo said the AW609 combines the takeoff and landing flexibility of a helicopter with the higher cruising speed and range of a traditional airplane.

A tiltrotor is a type of flying machine that blends the advantages of a helicopter, like say vertical take-off and landing, with those of a fixed-wing, propeller aircraft, like say cruising at ...

The AW609 is a tiltrotor aircraft from AustaWestland aimed at private, commercial, and government markets that is aiming for FAA certification in 2016.

It's been a long road for the AgustaWestland AW609. Since the resumption of flight testing in April last year following a fatal air crash in 2015 that claimed the lives of two test pilots, the ...

Icing trials will soon begin on Leonardo helicopter division's AW609 tiltrotor as the programme recovers from a nearly year-long flight test hiatus caused by a fatal crash of the second prototype ...

AgustaWestland’s new AW609 tiltrotor aircraft is still at least two years away from entering service, but we now have a better idea of just how fast this transformer for civilians is going to be ...

China has successfully tested its first tiltrotor aircraft prototype, marking its entry into advanced VTOL technology.

The AW609 is a twin-engined next-gen tiltrotor VTOL aircraft: like the V-22 Osprey it is capable of taking off and landing vertically as a “normal” helicopter while having a range and speed in ...

Leonardo plans to finish its first production example of the AW609 tiltrotor by the end of 2021. The initial commercial rotorcraft is in final assembly at the manufacturer’s Philadelphia ...