Daewoo Heavy Industries (DHI) has taken delivery of its first Sokol W-3A helicopter and is due to receive another two by the end of the year.
Two of the Polish machines will be added to the company's own helicopter fleet, and the third sold to a local buyer.
Daewoo has signed an agreement to market the W-3A in South Korea and Asia and, if sufficient orders are received, to undertake final assembly. Five more helicopters are due for delivery in 1997. DHI, in the meantime, plans to fly its indigenously developed Agricultural Remotely Controlled Helicopter (ARCH 50) prototype in January 1997. The machine has been designed to carry up to 50kg of crop-dusting chemicals. An earlier test model has been already been flown in Russia.
Source: Flight International
