Type | Società a responsabilità limitata |
---|---|
Industry | Aerospace |
Founded | 2013 |
Defunct | June 2016 |
Headquarters | , |
Products | Helicopters |
Italian Rotors Industries Srl (IRI) was an Italian aircraft manufacturer based in Aprilia, Lazio. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of helicopters in the form ready-to-fly aircraft. [1]
The firm was a società a responsabilità limitata, an Italian limited liability company. [2]
The company seems to have been founded about 2013 and went out of business in June 2016. [2] [3]
The organization produced three helicopter models, all based upon the same general design. The IRI T22B is powered by an American-made four-cylinder, air-cooled, four stroke 160 hp (119 kW) Lycoming O-320-B2C aircraft engine. The IRI T23B employs the 180 hp (134 kW) Lycoming O-360-A2J powerplant. The IRI T250A is powered by a 250 hp (186 kW) PBS TS 100 turboshaft engine made by PBS Velká Bíteš of the Czech Republic. [1]
Reviewer Werner Pfaendler, described the company's helicopter designs as "elegant". [1]
Summary of aircraft built by IRI:
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