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Rolls-Royce receives US Army Kiowa Warrior Supplier Excellence Award

Rolls-Royce receives US Army Kiowa Warrior Supplier Excellence Award

17-Jun-2010Source: Rolls-Royce

Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has received the U.S. Army Kiowa Warrior Supplier Excellence Award for 2009. The award, selected by the Kiowa Warrior Program Manager, is presented annually to the supplier demonstrating superior field support over the prior 12 months. Bert Brown, Rolls-Royce, Vice President, U.S. Army Helicopter Programs, accepted the award from... Read more

FAA extend Van Horn B206 composite tail blade STC to OH-58s

FAA extend Van Horn B206 composite tail blade STC to OH-58s

9-Jun-2010Source: Van Horn Aviation

OH-58 helicopter operators now have an aftermarket choice for tail rotor blades. The FAA recently issued an amended Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the Van Horn Aviation (VHA) 206B/L series composite tail rotor blade to include OH-58A+ and OH-58C models after reviewing flight and engineering data submitted by the company. “The City of Pasadena (California)... Read more

Arizona Governor seeks helicopters, UAVs from Obama for Mexican border

Arizona Governor seeks helicopters, UAVs from Obama for Mexican border

24-May-2010Source: Arizona Republic

In a May 20 letter, released by Brewer’s office on Friday, the governor asks the federal government to reallocate some of the nation’s network of OH-58 Kiowa helicopters to Arizona for use in border missions. Click on the “Arizona Republic” link for the press story, or here for the full 18-page pack sent by the... Read more

Kiowa OH-58 AVX Configuration Can Reduce Brownout

Kiowa OH-58 AVX Configuration Can Reduce Brownout

27-Apr-2010Source: AVX

In addition to increased performance at a reduced cost, modeling has shown that the AVX configuration has the potential to reduce brownout conditions in the landing configuration. Preliminary studies were made of the downwash/sidewash flow fields of the OH‐58D and the OH‐ 58AVX, along with limited studies of particle transport in ground effect in representative... Read more

Bell Helicopter Supports Army Kiowa Warriors

Bell Helicopter Supports Army Kiowa Warriors

15-Apr-2010Source: Bell

In addition to beginning work in March on the final lot of aircraft in the OH-58D Safety Enhancement Program (SEP), Bell Helicopter is also supporting the Army’s Kiowa Warrior program with crash damage repairs and a C-to-D cabin conversion build line. In March the Army awarded Bell a contract to modify the final 30 OH-58D... Read more

AVX proposes radical OH-58 makeover – coaxial rotors and ducted fans

AVX proposes radical OH-58 makeover – coaxial rotors and ducted fans

14-Apr-2010Source: Star-Telegram

AVX Aircraft, composed largely of ex-Bell employees, has proposed what it says is a low-cost way for the Army to upgrade its OH-58 fleet while significantly improving performance, safety and combat capability of the aircraft.... Read more

US Army to trial Sagem glass cockpit retrofit for OH-58 and TH-67

US Army to trial Sagem glass cockpit retrofit for OH-58 and TH-67

14-Apr-2010Source: Flightglobal

Yulista Aviation has installed on an OH-58 a completely new instrument panel, featuring two glass cockpit displays from Sagem Avionics.... Read more

Lockheed Martin’s DAGR Guided Rocket Fires Successfully From Kiowa Warrior

Lockheed Martin’s DAGR Guided Rocket Fires Successfully From Kiowa Warrior

7-Apr-2010Source: Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] hit the target in two tests featuring DAGR guided rockets launched from an airborne OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter. This is the fourth aircraft DAGR has fired from in the past year—prior platforms include the AH-64D Apache and the AH-6 Little Bird. Two DAGRs were launched from the OH-58D Kiowa in airborne... Read more

Texas deploys more helicopters to Mexican border

Texas deploys more helicopters to Mexican border

22-Mar-2010Source: KVIA ABC7

Texas deploys military OH-58 Kiowa and UH-72 Lakota helicopters to the area between El Paso and Brownsville as part of the first phase of the state’s spillover violence contingency plan.... Read more

Bell to Modify Final 30 Aircraft in OH-58D Safety Enhancement Program

Bell to Modify Final 30 Aircraft in OH-58D Safety Enhancement Program

10-Mar-2010Source: Bell

FORT WORTH, TEXAS (Mar. 9, 2010) – Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army to modify the final 30 OH-58D aircraft under the Kiowa Warrior Safety Enhancement Program (SEP). These 30 aircraft will form Lot 13 of the Kiowa Warrior SEP... Read more

Colorado Springs Police OH-58 sold to Wyomning for $170K

Colorado Springs Police OH-58 sold to Wyomning for $170K

23-Feb-2010

Colorado Springs Police OH-58 sold to Wyomning for $170K... Read more

US Army fires Talon Laser-Guided Rocket Rounds from OH-58D

US Army fires Talon Laser-Guided Rocket Rounds from OH-58D

30-Dec-2009Source: Raytheon

The TALON LGR rounds were launched from a U.S. Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior and hit targets at 3,500 meters (2.17 miles). This exceeded accuracy requirements for the Department of Defense’s Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II program.... Read more

Colorado Springs decommissions Air Support Unit; Helicopters up for sale

Colorado Springs decommissions Air Support Unit; Helicopters up for sale

24-Dec-2009Source: The Gazette

The Colorado Springs Police Department has lost its wings. In a decommissioning ceremony Tuesday, the department bid farewell to its Air Support Unit, one police budget line on a list of many that were cut because of projected city budget shortfalls in 2010... Read more

Washoe County Sheriff to publish helicopter activity online

Washoe County Sheriff to publish helicopter activity online

22-Dec-2009

The Washoe County Sheriff’s Department is going to start putting information on its Web site about the helicopters’ activities when they involve extended, low flyovers.... Read more

ATK and Elbit Systems Conduct Successful Flight Test of GATR From OH-58D Kiowa Warrior

ATK and Elbit Systems Conduct Successful Flight Test of GATR From OH-58D Kiowa Warrior

2-Dec-2009Source: ATK

Alliant Techsystems and Elbit Systems have successfully conducted flight tests of the Guided Advanced Tactical Rocket (GATR) from a U.S. Army rotary-wing helicopter: the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior.... Read more

Budget cuts mean end of Colorado Springs police helicopter

Budget cuts mean end of Colorado Springs police helicopter

19-Nov-2009Source: FOX21

OX21 News has been telling citizens about the deep budget cuts the city of Colorado Springs  is facing because of slumping sales tax revenues.... Read more

Aspen Avionics Announces First Helicopter Installation

Aspen Avionics Announces First Helicopter Installation

28-Oct-2009Source: Aspen Avionics

Aspen Avionics announced today that the Dale County Sheriff’s Office located in Ozark, Alabama, is the first installation of an EFD1000H Pro Primary Flight Display (PFD) and an EFD1000H Multi-Function Display (MFD) into an operational helicopter. The Bell OH-58 helicopter is used by the department in regular airborne law enforcement activities.... Read more

Sacramento Police add helicopter tracking page to website

Sacramento Police add helicopter tracking page to website

28-Oct-2009Source: Sacramento Police

The Sacramento Police Department has added some features at www.sacpd.org to help you find out what the police are doing.  With the addition of daily logs, helicopter location information, Facebook, and twitter we hope to keep the community more informed.... Read more

Brunswick commissioner regrets Sheriff helicopter acquisition

Brunswick commissioner regrets Sheriff helicopter acquisition

1-Oct-2009Source: Star News

Brunswick’s County new helicopter is a liability and will cost more in the long run than using a shared helicopter with Wilmington, the vice chairman of the board of commissioners said Wednesday.... Read more

Sheriff’s helicopter ready for missions in Brunswick County

Sheriff’s helicopter ready for missions in Brunswick County

18-Sep-2009Source: Star News

Two months later than expected, the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office’s Bell OH-58 series helicopter – called “Brunswick Air One” – is now available.... Read more

US Army demos VUIT-2 software integration on Kiowa Warrior

US Army demos VUIT-2 software integration on Kiowa Warrior

2-Sep-2009Source: Rotorhub

The US Army’s aviation directorate says that it has now carried out initial software integration for the video from unmanned aircraft systems for interoperability teaming (VUIT-2) system aboard a Boeing OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter as part of plans for a fleet role out aboard that aircraft type.... Read more

Vector Aerospace acquires certified OH58 airframe maintenance fixture

Vector Aerospace acquires certified OH58 airframe maintenance fixture

27-Aug-2009Source: Vector Aerospace

Vector Aerospace now offers Bell Helicopter-certified airframe repair capability for the OH-58 (Kiowa) A and C models, via its new maintenance fixture located at the company’s Andalusia, Alabama helicopter repair and overhaul operation.... Read more

Austrian OH-58 helicopters decommissioned after 40 years of service

Austrian OH-58 helicopters decommissioned after 40 years of service

11-Aug-2009Source: DefPro

The Austrian Ministry of Defence announced that a “Jet Ranger” helicopter has made the last flight of this helicopter type with the Austrian Army (Bundesheer) at the Hinterstoisser military airfield near Zeltweg, Austria. This marks the conclusion of 40 years of service and some 100,000 flight hours with the Austrian Army.... Read more

Australia weighs PPP vs traditional purchasing for new helo training fleet

Australia weighs PPP vs traditional purchasing for new helo training fleet

4-Aug-2009Source: Rotorhub

Australia is still to make decisions on whether it uses traditional capital acquisition or public private partnership (PPP) methods to finance its planned Project Air 9000 phase 7 helicopter training system requirement.... Read more

Osceola County Sheriff Department Equips Second OH-58 With Sagem ICDS

Osceola County Sheriff Department Equips Second OH-58 With Sagem ICDS

20-Jul-2009Source: http://www.rotor.com/Default.aspx?tabid=510&newsid905=61832

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Kiowa Warrior gains firepower

Kiowa Warrior gains firepower

13-May-2009Source: US Army

In recent months, Avenger’s M3P machine gun has taken on a new life as the machine gun of choice for OH-58D Kiowa Warrior units stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The M3P is providing Kiowa units with what they needed as outlined in two Operational Needs Statements from theater... Read more

DRS Technologies Receives $110M In Orders To Support U.S. Army Kiowa Warrior Mast-Mounted Sights

DRS Technologies Receives $110M In Orders To Support U.S. Army Kiowa Warrior Mast-Mounted Sights

18-Apr-2009Source: DRS

DRS Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has received nine delivery orders valued at over $110 million for spare components, repairs, and program services for Mast-Mounted Sights (MMS) on OH-58D Kiowa Warrior armed reconnaissance helicopters in the U.S. and on the battlefield.... Read more

Ex-cop took off with helicopter

Ex-cop took off with helicopter

9-Feb-2009Source: Sydney Morning Herald

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