Finnish Government, European helicopter maker NHIndustries is to pay nearly 20 million euros of contractual penalty for failing to deliver aircraft to Finland in the agreed timeframe, the Finnish government said Friday.
Finland ordered 20 Nato Helicopter 90 (NH90) aircraft three years ago. NHIndustries said then it would deliver the last of the machines this October. Finland has yet to take delivery of a single helicopter.
Jyri Häkämies (cons.), the Finnish defence minister, had said on Wednesday that Finland would take delivery of its first NH90 in the first half of next year.
The original value of the order was 370 million euros.
NHIndustries is a consortium made up of Franco-German Eurocopter, Italy's Agusta and Stork Fokker Aerospace of the Netherlands to build the NH90 series of aircraft.
The NH90s are to replace the Finnish army's ageing fleet of Russian-made Mil Mi-8 transports.
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