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Airbus Corporate Helicopters (ACH) is now offering the upcoming H140 with an executive-configured variant, the company announced on Monday at Verticon 2026. The ACH140, scheduled to enter service in 2030, also ushers in a new interior design that will be extended across the wider ACH family.
Launch customers for the ACH140 have already been secured in what Airbus Corporate Helicopters CEO Frédéric Lemos described as the “top three regions” worldwide: Brazil, the U.S., and Europe, which collectively steer more than 70% of total market volume. Around 100 commitments have been made for the H140 since Airbus Helicopters launched the model last year at Verticon.
A high-density configuration for the ACH140 will seat six passengers in the main cabin, which Airbus believes offers “unmatched cabin space” within the light-twin segment. Under an available option, two cabin seats can be removed and substituted with up to two cabinets. Passengers will also benefit from the “largest windows on the market” and a smooth ride quality enhanced by the H140’s five-blade rotor system, the company said.
Notably, the ACH140 provided an opportunity for “reviewing and face-lifting” the ACH line’s visual elements, Lemos said, with the revised interior design offering “dynamic stretched lines” and a blend of “sophisticated materials.”&nbsp;Intended to provide a distinct and cohesive visual identity, “the ACH130 will bring the new design, but with the current color and material of the catalog,” followed by a “rolling plan” to encompass other ACH platforms, he confirmed.
Customers will also retain the opportunity to customize their own requirements above and beyond the catalog options, with Airbus remaining open to the idea of a potential collaboration such as that embodied by the ACH130 Aston Martin partnership.
With the H140 on schedule to enter into service in 2028 in the aeromedical service role, Lemos believes the aircraft’s modularity is crucial to its proposed corporate application. “The ACH line is our offering to have the best operational efficiency and retain as much as possible the value of the aircraft, because it’s very modular and easy to repurpose,” he explained. Additionally, with increasing numbers of ACH customers assisting in disaster event response, reconfigurable capability is a key consideration.

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