AIRR is helo Aircrew and classified as a Naval Special Warfare program. Fixed-wing Aircrew is AIRC. Technically, since 2008, all Aircrew ratings have AW in them (AWO/AWF/AWV/AWR/AWS).
Both programs have to go through Naval Aircrew Candidate School, which involves moderately strenuous PT and intermediate water survival training... however AIRR then has to go through Rescue Swimmer School which, as you figured correctly, involves a great deal more swimming and PT.
There was a time shortly after I graduated NACCS that AIRR candidates who failed RSS (Failed, not Drop-On-Request) were reclassified as AWO... fixed-wing sensor operators. I don't know that this is still a policy though... and kinda doubt it given the reorganization Maritime Patrol is currently undergoing.
Tl;dr... you're looking for AIRC, not AIRR. While both are Aircrew, AIRR requires a great deal of swimming.
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