Leonardo puts himself at the service of the country for the coronavirus emergency. The group led by Alessandro Profumo, which has been considered among the strategic companies and therefore continues to operate albeit with due precautions, is taking advantage of it to provide all its support to the institutions called to face an unprecedented logistical crisis. Leonardo, leader in the aerospace and defense industry, has pooled its means, people and resources, especially with the availability of means of air transport.
Specifically, through the use of two transport aircraft of the Aircraft Division, a C-27J and an ATR 72, destined for international customers who have endorsed the initiative, Leonardo will carry out - with its own crews - and in support of the Civil Protection, a series of shuttle flights between Italian airports and where required by the emergency also between international airports, to ensure the transport of medical material (respirators, masks, etc.), thus guaranteeing operational autonomy and flexibility and significant load capacity.
In addition to guaranteeing technical support to the helicopter fleet of the Armed Forces, bodies, institutions, Police Forces and air ambulances involved in emergencies, the Helicopter Division made its pilots and 3 helicopters available (2 AW139 and 1 AW189) in different configurations, in addition to maintenance and operation services, for the Civil Protection healthcare operations.
Not only. In the Aerostructures Division, at the Grottaglie production site, Leonardo, through the use of additive manufacturing technology (3D printing), has already launched the production of a first batch of valves to support the initiative of the company Isinnova of Brescia, which has developed the project of valves in plastic material which allow to modify a particular model of diving masks and transform them into respirators for sub-intensive therapies. The same production is activated at the site of the Electronics Division in La Spezia.
