Sindh govt to purchase helicopter worth $15.95 million, for relief work

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

You can get civilian grade Helicopters for 500,000k to 1 Million per helicopters

They could have bough 30 to 10 helicopters for Civilian Needs with 15 million

 

[Faiez]

10 million a piece ...hope its not used one, otherwise someone is getting very rich.

http://helicopters.findthebest.com/l/79/AgustaWestland-AW139

Used one for sale.

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Updated: 12/8/2014 1:47:00 PM 2010 AGUSTA AW139
Priced to be the next VIP/Passenger AW139 to sell. An excellent condition, low hours Agusta AW139 VIP helicopter, with two configurations included: 8 VIP...
Total Time: 1170 Hours
Number Of Seats: 12
For Sale: US $11,495,000

This is a recent listing of a used aircraft. This is an expensive helicopter by the way.

That was in 2008/9..may be price went up? Or could be version change / extra spares / licensed software for avionics etc.

Army paid 13.5 million a piece and PPP is paying almost 16 million, Someone is making over 3 million dollar in kick back

The prices have gone up. 2008 is 7 years ago now. Prices have shot up since then.

Also, the helicopter is not a VIP helicopter, it's a versatile helicopter, used for a wide variety of roles, including military roles. And is also used for VIP use.

The article says they bought the 12 seat version, that's not a VIP helicopter then. Even though it CAN be used for what ever purpose, just that it's not really the real VIP thing.

Personally I think they could have bought a fleet of ~10 bell 206s. It's a light helicopter and costs lesser to run/maintain and still carries 4 passengers, perfect for rescue operations. With that they could have the ability to take away upto 40 people at a time compared with just 12 with this helicopter.

AW139 is ideal as an air ambulance. For the flood rescue type missions which we need the helicopters for, these smaller, cheaper ones are better.