Mark Huber is an aviation industry veteran who has worked in the flight training, aircraft sales, aircraft component, and airport development businesses. He has flight time in more than 50 different and diverse aircraft, including helicopters, aerobatic aircraft, vintage warbirds, jet fighters, business jets and turboprops, and transport-category aircraft. He has jumped out of several of these—on purpose—with a parachute. His defense and aviation journalism has been published in a variety of national and international periodicals.

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Eurocopter’s final assembly line in Albacete, Spain, in late November delivered its first aircraft, an EC 135. The first customer is the Spanish army, but the plant is expected to deliver both civil and military EC 135s. The factory in Albacete is one of Eurocopter’s two final assembly lines for the EC 135, the other being in Donauwörth, Germany. Eurocopter aims to deliver at least 13 EC 135s from the Spanish facility this year.

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Spanish Line Begins Delivering EC 135

Eurocopter’s final assembly line in Albacete, Spain, in late November delivered its first aircraft, an EC 135.

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