Military Helicopters Archivi - Aviation Report

Leonardo delivers its first AW169 basic training helicopter to the Italian Army Aviation

Leonardo announced today the delivery of the first of two AW169 basic training twin engine helicopters to the Italian Army during an official ceremony held at the 2nd Rgt. AVES ‘Sirio’ based in Lamezia Terme in... Read More...

Boeing delivers 2500th AH-64 Apache attack helicopter

Boeing recently delivered its 2,500th AH-64 Apache helicopter, an E-model Apache for the U.S. Army, from the company’s production line in Mesa, Arizona. The first production AH-64, an A-model Apache, rolled ... Read More...

HH-60W Jolly Green II completed a month-long trial of extremes

An HH-60W Jolly Green II, the US Air Force’s new combat search and rescue helicopter, completed a month-long trial of extremes inside the McKinley Climatic Lab April 2. The Sikorsky test aircraft endured real t... Read More...

Boeing delivers first CH-47F Chinook to Royal Netherlands Air Force

This is first of 20 CH-47F Chinooks to be delivered to RNLAF one of eight NATO nations to operate the heavy-lift helicopter

Boeing recently delivered the first CH-47F Chinook with an upgraded cockpit to the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF), continuing a track record of on-time deliveries to customers. The RNLAF will operate a fle... Read More...

The new USAF helicopter MH-139 Grey Wolf begins testing

The Air Force’s newest helicopter, the MH-139A Grey Wolf, completed its first combined test flight on Feb. 11. With a Boeing pilot in command, this test flight allowed the Air Force its first in-flight look at ... Read More...

Sikorsky VH-92A Presidential Helicopters

Sikorsky receives second contract to build presidential helicopters

VH-92A® test helicopters flying and validating mission capabilities

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, will build six production VH-92A® Presidential Helicopters under a contract from the U.S Navy. These helicopters are part of the 23 aircraft program of record for the U.S. M... Read More...

US Navy chooses Leonardo’s italian TH-73 as the new training helicopter

Leonardo awarded a 176.472.608 USD contract for 32 TH-73A helicopters by U.S. Department of Defense

Leonardo, through AgustaWestland Philadelphia Corp., has been awarded a firm-fixed-price contract valued at USD 176,472,608 for the production and delivery of 32 TH-73A helicopters, initial spares, support and ... Read More...

New HH-60W combat rescue helicopter enters anechoic chamber for defense systems testing at J-PRIMES facility Eglin AFB

The US Air Force’s newest combat rescue helicopter hung suspended in a soundproof anechoic chamber for defense system testing here last month. The 413th Flight Test Squadron’s HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter we... Read More...

MD Helicopters delivers new advanced capabilities to its MD 530G Block II Scout Attack Helicopter

MD Helicopters, Inc. (announces a strategic teaming agreement with Elbit Systems Ltd (ESL) to deliver next-generation weapons and mission management capabilities to its MD 530G Block II (BII) Scout Attack Helic... Read More...

US Air Force Global Strike Command establishes new detachment for MH-139 testing

Air Force Global Strike Command will stand up Detachment 7 later this month at Duke Field, Florida, to support testing and evaluation of the command’s new MH-139A helicopter. The MH-139A is the first service... Read More...

Airbus Helicopters delivers first NH-90 Sea Lion to the German Armed Forces (Navy)

Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first NH-90 Sea Lion naval multi-role helicopter to the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw), with a further two t... Read More...

Airbus H125 Polizei Federal Ministry of the Interior Austria

Airbus H125 helicopters enter Austrian Ministry of Interior service

Austria’s Ministry of the Interior (BMI - Bundesministerium für Inneres) has formally introduced into service two Airbus H125 helicopters extensively equipped for law enforcement and rescue missions. The aircra... Read More...

Sikorsky RAIDER X™ a nextgen light-attack reconnaissance helicopter based on its X2 technology

RAIDER X as the U.S. Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft

Sikorsky introduced RAIDER X™, its concept for an agile, lethal and survivable compound coaxial helicopter, specifically designed for securing vertical lift dominance against evolving peer and near-peer threats... Read More...

Flight testing begins for the first H225Ms for Kuwait

The first H225Ms to be delivered to Kuwait later this year have started flight testing. Kuwait ordered 30 of the long-range multi-role H225Ms in August 2016. They will be operated by the Kuwait Air Force and th... Read More...

First aircraft lands on new UK aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales

A Merlin helicopter was guided safely into land on the expansive deck

The first aircraft touched down on the deck of HMS Prince of Wales off the Scottish coast. Not 24 hours after the second of the UK’s new aircraft carriers sailed into open waters for the first time, a Merlin he... Read More...

Sikorsky HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter approved to enter production

USAF program of record calls for 113 helicopters

Lockheed Martin has announced the Sikorsky HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) program achieved a Milestone C decision from the U.S. Air Force, which moves the program into low rate initial production. The Co... Read More...

Leonardo displays the AW149 helicopter at the DSEI 2019 exhibition in London

Leonardo proposes the AW149 on the international market to operators who are considering replacing their now obsolete fleets of multi-role helicopters

At the DSEI 2019 exhibition, Leonardo displays its latest-generation medium-lift AW149 helicopter. The modern, reliable and cost-effective aircraft is rapidly configurable to meet a wide range of military missi... Read More...