Airbus // Universal Registration Document 2021

1. Information on the Company’s Activities / 1.1 Presentation of the Company

The HDataPower pack is composed of a set of digital services addressing our latest generation of helicopters: the H135, H145, H175 and H160. It is designed to boost flight, airworthiness and maintenance operations through easy-to-use digital solutions leveraging data generated by helicopter systems, such as flight data recorders and avionics systems (Helionix ® ), or maintenance software and applications used to manage fleets. The HDataPower pack is aimed at supporting these Helionix ® - equipped helicopters at all steps of an operator’s journey, with an uninterrupted digital chain of solutions fully integrated with Airbus Helicopters systems. It facilitates instant exchanges across functions and organisations, optimises interactions in fleet management while reducing human pressure and risks, and cuts workload and costs thanks to advanced analytics solutions. Through the digitisation and in-depth analysis of f l ight, maintenance and logistics operations, the HDataPower pack sets the stage for improvement and time savings, translating to higher fleet availability, enhanced operational safety, optimised costs and sustained asset value. Aviation Safety Airbus Helicopters’ chief priority is to enhance aviation safety for the thousands of men and women around the world who are transported in its aircraft every day. Airbus Helicopter’ ambition is to further reduce the accident rate by of the Airbus helicopter fleet in service. Airbus Helicopters also aims to be a leader in aviation safety. In order to achieve these goals, Airbus Helicopters strives to: – – define and develop new safety measures and initiatives to support the operations of its customers; – – continue to mature the company-wide global aviation Safety Management System (SMS). This commitment to aviation safety is also reflected across all theinternal activities related to the lifecycle of a helicopter, with a focus on meeting industry quality and safety standards, and going beyond when applicable. All this is based on continuously enhancing the strong safety culture in the Company. Market Drivers According to market forecasts produced by Airbus Helicopters, around 20,000 civil helicopters and 14,000 military helicopters are expected to be built globally over the next 20 years. The helicopter market has started to recover in 2021, but is expected to remain a challenging environment due to persistent economic uncertainties lengthening sales cycle in particular in military (budget allocation postponement or reduction), delayed growth of emerging markets (especially in Asia) and the Oil & Gas downturn. Helicopters sold in the civil and parapublic sector, where Airbus Helicopters is a leader, provide transport for private owners and corporate executives, offshore oil operations, diverse commercial applications and state agencies, including coast guard, police, medical and fire-fighting services. Thanks to its existing mission segment diversity, the helicopter market (both platforms and services activities) is expected to be resilient through the coming decade, even though one of the key segments, Oil & Gas continues to experience challenging conditions.

Léger (“ HIL ”)). The contract includes the development of several prototypes and the delivery of a first batch of 30 aircraft (21 for the army, 8 for the navy and one for the air force). The French Ministry for the Armed Forces plans to order a total of 169 H160M helicopters, or Guépard as it will be known in the French armed forces. Deliveries will start in 2027 beginning with the French Army. The first of a new generation of helicopters, the H160M is derived from the EASA-certified H160. It benefits from a low cost of operations and optimised flight safety. The H160 was designed to be a modular helicopter, enabling its military version, with a single platform, to perform missions ranging from commando infiltration to air intercept, fire support, and anti-ship warfare in order to meet the needs of the army, the navy and the air force. To ensure a high level of availability while reducing operating costs, the H160M’s support and services needs were taken into account from early in its design phase. Innovative and simplified, the H160M’s support is based on the exploitation of data through analytics. Airbus Helicopters will guarantee a high level of availability through an innovative maintenance contract. Airbus Helicopters commits to an innovative management of maintenance and aircraft availability through a dedicated organisation that has proven to be successful. Airbus Helicopters also made progress on the VSR700, its fully-fledged unmanned aerial system (“ UAS ”), by pursuing its flight envelope expansion test campaign in 2021. In April, the UAS performed a test flight that pushed its speed limit to 60kts (more than 110 km/h), entirely opening its flight envelope at low speed. Thanks to this milestone, the VSR700 programme is getting closer to its goal: providing the French Navy with a sea- demonstration-compatible UAS. Focusing on Customers Airbus Helicopters’ top priority from a customer support and service perspective is to ensure its work results in the best customer experience possible. 2021 saw the Division continue its work on digitalisation, analytics and integrated global contracts with the roll-out of two new offers: HCare Classics and HDataPower. HCare Classics is a custom-made set of services for its legacy fleet of approximately 2,000 in-service H120, Dauphin, Puma and Gazelle helicopters. It is a customer-centric, results-based approach that has been derived from customer feedback and is aimed at easing the lives of the 750 customers operating these aircraft. The package brings a collaborative approach to fleet management, aiming to anticipate and treat issues of obsolescence and aircraf t longevity. The entirely new organisational model behind the offer involves a dedicated plateau that brings together contract managers (as the voice of the customer) and product specialists, from design office experts to members of the supply chain. Airbus Helicopters is investing both time and money to make its supply chain for the legacy fleet more robust: significant budgets are invested to reinforce the supply chain, buy-back of used aircraft to source parts, committed production lead times to secure the availability of parts, and a 24/7 worldwide AOG and specialised parts transportation service. All aspects of legacy helicopter operations are thus taken into account in a single contract, with performance commitments related to services that are performed by Airbus Helicopters.

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Airbus / Registration Document 2021