Air Hanson Engineering, the maintenance and engineering division of Lynton Aviation, has accepted delivery of the first ever "green" Eurocopter EC155 for completion in a corporate vip configuration. The aircraft's South African owner has contracted Air Hanson to complete the EC155 by the end of July. \rAir Hanson says its EC155 will receive a state of the art avionics system, and technology to allow various seat permutations: four or six club seats, and eight or 12 utility seats. \rPaul Boyd, managing director, Air Hanson Engineering, said: "The appointment of Air Hanson by a prominent private client to carry out complex and ground-breaking completion work to such an early example of a new aircraft is testament to our recognised expertise with Eurocopter products." \rEBAN spoke to Dave Clutton and Dave Bodilly, Air Hanson's project managers for the EC155 completion, about the challenge facing Air Hanson: "The aircraft is bigger, better, yet much the same to work on as earlier Dauphins," said Clutton. "The avionics, of course, are the latest generation and will provide pilots with Sextant/Eurocopter Avionique Nouvelle and a large moving map screen on the instrument panel. The paint scheme will be a work of art.\r"So far it is on budget and on time. The EC155 will definitely be a better aircraft than previous Dauphins."\rAs EBAN goes to press, part of the tailplane has been removed from the helicopter, the original flight panel and the doors have been taken off, and the seats have yet to arrive: "The aircraft is in a million bits at the moment," said Bodilly. "We are nearer to the start of the project than we are to the end. When it arrived, the EC155 was as green as it could be."