he Dauphin 2 is a medium weight multipurpose civil twin-enginehelicopter. The Dauphin 2 is the military version of the Dauphinseries. It is a complete redesign of the civilian Dauphin with onlytail similarities remaining. The Dauphin 2 also has retractable landinggear as opposed to the fixed gear on the civilian Dauphin. It is builtby the EUROCOPTER Group, owned 70% by AEROSPATIALE France and 30% byDaimler Aerospace (DASA) of Germany.