High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Aerospatiale SA 360 Dauphin was a single-engine French utility helicopter developed as a replacement for Aerospatiale's Alouette III and was to be called the "Business Alouette", in the early 1970s and to fill a gap in the company's product line in the six to ten-seat helicopter category. In fact, the new helicopter offered little advantage over its predecessor and production was cancelled after only a few dozen of them had been built. However, a twin-engine derivative, the Dauphin 2 went on to become a great success and is still in production in 2007, after some 30 years. Perhaps confusingly, after the merger of Aerospatiale's helicopter division into Eurocopter in 1992, the Dauphin 2 designation was dropped, and Eurocopter-built Dauphin 2s are simply referred to as "Dauphin". The retronym "Dauphin 1" is sometimes applied to the original Dauphin. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в...