Introduced as the Agusta A119 Koala prior to the Agusta-Westland merger, it is targeted at operators favoring lower running costs of a single-engine aircraft over redundancy of a twin.
Development
The A119 designation was first applied to a proposed 11-seat stretched version of the A109 in the 1970s, These two machines, registrations I-KOAL and I-KNEW were then presented to the public at the Paris Air Show in June 1995. Civil certification was originally anticipated in 1997, but that deadline was missed with Agusta citing personnel problems, and a need to increase the... Read More