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US Navy awards Sikorsky contract for nine more CH-53K Heavy Lift Helicopters

28 June 2021

Utilizing proven advanced manufacturing techniques and continuing to drive down unit price, Sikorsky will build nine more CH-53K™ heavy lift helicopters under...

first Leonardo helicopter TH-73A for US Navy

Leonardo officially delivered the first TH-73A training helicopter to the U.S. Navy

11 June 2021

At a ceremony on its Philadelphia campus and under the backdrop of the Stars and Stripes, Leonardo officially delivered the...

USAF exercise Red Flag 21-2 underway at Nellis AFB

9 March 2021

Exercise Red Flag 21-2 underway at Nellis AFB, one of the U.S. Air Force’s largest combat training exercises. The 57th...

US Navy awards logistics support contract for TH-73A Advanced Helicopter Training Program

8 March 2021

The U.S. Navy awarded Vertex Aerospace, LLC (Vertex) a contract for $71,374,880 on March 2 for the base year for...

Helicopters from 1st Combat Aviation Brigade arrives in Dunkirk, France, for operation Atlantic Resolve

8 March 2021

Helicopters and equipment from the 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, began offloading March 6, 2021, at the Port...

Apache units swap in Iraq: 1-82nd Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, Task Force Wolfpack, took control of their role in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve

8 March 2021

The 1-82nd Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, operating as Task Force Wolfpack, formally took control of their role in support of Combined...

US Army announces 1st Combat Aviation Brigade deployment to Atlantic Resolve in Europe in April 2021

11 February 2021

The U.S. Army announced today that Fort Riley’s 1st Infantry Division Combat Aviation Brigade will replace the 101st Airborne Division’s...

US Army Chinook takes flight with GE Aviation T408 engine

25 September 2020

The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center achieved its first flight of a Chinook with GE...

Airbus to introduce the newest series of Lakota helicopter UH-72B to the US Army and National Guard

8 September 2020

Airbus Helicopters will introduce the newest series of its Lakota helicopter to the U.S. Army’s fleet, the company announced today...

Boeing delivers 2500th AH-64 Apache attack helicopter

1 July 2020

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...

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

9 April 2020

An HH-60W Jolly Green II, the US Air Force’s new combat search and rescue helicopter, completed a month-long trial of extremes...

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

3 April 2020

Boeing recently delivered the first CH-47F Chinook with an upgraded cockpit to the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF), continuing a...

The new USAF helicopter MH-139 Grey Wolf begins testing

25 February 2020

The Air Force’s newest helicopter, the MH-139A Grey Wolf, completed its first combined test flight on Feb. 11. With a...

Sikorsky VH-92A Presidential Helicopters

Sikorsky receives second contract to build presidential helicopters

22 February 2020

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, will build six production VH-92A® Presidential Helicopters under a contract from the U.S Navy. These...

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

14 January 2020

Leonardo, through AgustaWestland Philadelphia Corp., has been awarded a firm-fixed-price contract valued at USD 176,472,608 for the production and delivery...

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

8 January 2020

The US Air Force’s newest combat rescue helicopter hung suspended in a soundproof anechoic chamber for defense system testing here...

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

18 October 2019

Sikorsky introduced RAIDER X™, its concept for an agile, lethal and survivable compound coaxial helicopter, specifically designed for securing vertical...