in june 2011, agustawestland took full ownership of the ba609 tiltrotor program. bell agusta aerospace company (baac) was renamed as the agustawestland tilt-rotor company (awtrc), and will remain a us company being the new type certificate applicant to faa. the new company is wholly owned by agustawestland and the ba609 tiltrotor has been rebranded as the aw609.