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Busy summer for Royal Navy SAR

Busy summer for Royal Navy SAR

5-Oct-2010Source: Royal Navy

The summer period not only drew many crowds to Cornwall, but brought about several interesting jobs for the Search and Rescue crews of 771 Naval Air Squadron, based at RNAS Culdrose. In August alone, a total of 34 rescues were conducted – the busiest month of the year. On call 24 hours a day, every... Read more

Apache and Sea King in separate near misses with UK military UAVs

Apache and Sea King in separate near misses with UK military UAVs

5-Oct-2010Source: BBC

An Apache and a Sea King came close to hitting the much smaller drone spy aircraft – while it was being flown remotely by a soldier on the ground. The near collisions on Salisbury Plain in February involved the small Desert Hawk drone... Read more

Boeing awarded $31M contract for 100 Apache rotorheads

Boeing awarded $31M contract for 100 Apache rotorheads

5-Oct-2010Source: Boeing

Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency Aviation has awarded the company a three-year contract to manufacture spare main rotor heads for the U.S. Army’s fleet of Apache attack helicopters. The fixed-price contract calls for an initial 100 main rotor heads, at a value of $31 million, and allows for 50... Read more

Ufa will become helicopter engine production centre

Ufa will become helicopter engine production centre

5-Oct-2010Source: AVE

The visit of Republic of Bashkortostan’s President Rustem Khamitov to two engine manufacturing organisations recently said that they had every opportunity to become a major center for the production of helicopter engines in Russia. Photo shows a TV7-117V engine... Read more

Philippines suspends $90m worth helicopter purchases amid corruption allegations

Philippines suspends $90m worth helicopter purchases amid corruption allegations

5-Oct-2010Source: Saudi Gazette

Tenders involved PZL Swidnik with a $60 million contract to supply eight combat utility helicopters, and MD Helicopters with six night-capable attack helicopters worth $29 million... Read more

Eurocopter outlines presence at Helitech 2010

Eurocopter outlines presence at Helitech 2010

5-Oct-2010Source: Eurocopter

Eurocopter will underscore its strong presence in the European multi-mission helicopter marketplace with the company’s participation at this week’s Helitech helicopter show and conference, being held October 5-7 at Cascais Airport in the Portuguese city of Estoril. The Eurocopter exhibit stand (booth no.214) is to include scale models of the EC635 and AS550 C3 Fennec... Read more

139 changes maketh a Rooivalk Block 1F

139 changes maketh a Rooivalk Block 1F

4-Oct-2010Source: defenceWeb

It takes 130 modifications on the Denel AH2A Rooivalk to turn the current fleet of 11 rotorcraft into a “Block 1F” standard aircraft and a further nine modifications to the aircraft’s ground support equipment... Read more

IAI reports special forces interest in Panther tiltrotor UAV family

IAI reports special forces interest in Panther tiltrotor UAV family

4-Oct-2010Source: Flight Global

Israel Aerospace Industries’ Panther/K-80 tiltrotor unmanned air vehicle is being evaluated by special forces from other countries... Read more

Northrop Grumman to supply ATC comms system for UK MoD’s Camp Bastion, Afghanistan

Northrop Grumman to supply ATC comms system for UK MoD’s Camp Bastion, Afghanistan

4-Oct-2010Source: Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE:NOC) Europe-based air traffic management systems subsidiary, Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems, has been awarded a contract by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to provide a ground-to-air voice radio system for air traffic control operations at the MoD’s Camp Bastion airfield in Helmand Province, the main handling airfield for UK operations... Read more

Heli-One Norway completes Swedesh AS332 upgrades

Heli-One Norway completes Swedesh AS332 upgrades

4-Oct-2010Source: Heli-One

Heli-One, the world’s largest helicopter maintenance repair and overhaul company, is proud to announce that three 332M1/HKP-10B aircraft under modification for the Swedish Air Force (SAF) have been delivered ahead of schedule. “Congratulations to the Heli-One project team in Norway for delivering the ISAF project on target to our largest third-party customer Swedish Air Force,”... Read more

Belgian Police order fourth MD Explorer

Belgian Police order fourth MD Explorer

2-Oct-2010Source: DHnet

The Belgian Government agreed Friday to purchase a used MD902 for the Politie (Belgian Police), adding to the three MD900s they already have... Read more

200 job losses at Sikorsky

200 job losses at Sikorsky

2-Oct-2010Source: Hartford Courant

Sikorsky Aircraft said Friday that it eliminated about 1 percent of the company’s global workforce due to weakness in the market for commercial helicopters. That amounts to about 200 jobs.... Read more

Canadian Helicopters win more Afghanistan support work

Canadian Helicopters win more Afghanistan support work

2-Oct-2010Source: Canadian Helicopters

Canadian Helicopters Income Fund (TSX: CHL.UN) (the “Fund”), the largest helicopter transportation services company operating in Canada, is pleased to announce that it has been advised it has been awarded additional work in Afghanistan by the United States Transportation Command (“USTRANSCOM”). This new contract, similar to previous awards, entails the movement of supplies and passengers... Read more

Mayor of Cascais to open Helitech 2010

Mayor of Cascais to open Helitech 2010

2-Oct-2010Source: Helitech

The Mayor of Cascais will officially open Helitech’s second exhibition in Portugal, which takes place next week from 5th to 7th October at Airport Cascais, near Estoril. Mr António d’Orey Capucho, the Mayor of Cascais, visited the event when it was first held in Portugal in 2008. The Mayor is expected to tour some of... Read more

Sweden seeks 15 UH-60M Black Hawks in $546M deal

Sweden seeks 15 UH-60M Black Hawks in $546M deal

1-Oct-2010Source: DSCA

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress Sept. 29 of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Sweden of 15 UH-60M BLACKHAWK Helicopters and associated parts, equipment and logistical support for a complete package worth approximately $546 million. The Government of Sweden has requested a possible sale of 15 UH-60M BLACKHAWK Helicopters, 34 T700-GE-701D General Electric... Read more

Spain requests six US surplus SH-60F Sea Hawks

Spain requests six US surplus SH-60F Sea Hawks

1-Oct-2010Source: DSCA

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress Sept. 29 of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Spain for the refurbishment of (6) SH-60F Multi-Mission Utility Helicopters and associated parts, equipment and logistical support for a complete package worth approximately $155 million. The Government of Spain has requested a possible sale and the refurbishment of (6)... Read more

South African AW109LUH support costs climb

South African AW109LUH support costs climb

1-Oct-2010Source: defenseWeb

Support and other post-acquisition capital costs for the South African Air Force’s 29 AgustaWestland A109M light utility helicopters acquired for R2.451 billion as part of the 1999 strategic defence package has topped R120.5 million since December 2006... Read more

US Coast Guard aircrew wins at Canadian rescue exercise

US Coast Guard aircrew wins at Canadian rescue exercise

1-Oct-2010Source: US Coast Guard

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka crew won the marine rescue event in this year’s Royal Canadian Forces annual search and rescue exercise which was held in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, Sept. 20-24. The crew, which consisted of a pilot, co-pilot, three flight mechanics and two rescue swimmers arrived Sept. 22 in time... Read more

Grintek Ewation wins major South African EW maintenance deal

Grintek Ewation wins major South African EW maintenance deal

1-Oct-2010Source: defenceWeb

Grintek Ewation has been awarded a R23 859 454 contract to maintain its electronic warfare (EW) and communication intelligence systems aboard the Denel Oryx medium utility helicopter and Douglas C47TP Dhttps://www.helihub.com/wordpress/wp-admin/post-new.phpakota aircraft.... Read more

Agoncillo military base will receive Spain’s first NH90

Agoncillo military base will receive Spain’s first NH90

1-Oct-2010Source: Rioja

Army unit BHELMA III is expected to take delivery of its first NH90 in 2012 and it has been announced that it will be based at Agoncillo... Read more

Dutch Chinooks complete Afghanistan tasking

Dutch Chinooks complete Afghanistan tasking

1-Oct-2010Source: Dutch Ministry of Defence

The last Dutch Chinook flight for the ISAF mission has taken place yesterday. Dutch Chinook transport helicopters are operating in Afghanistan since April 2005. 3 Chinooks, from 298 Squadron at Gilze-Rijen Airbase, were stationed at Kandahar Airfield and were part of Air Task Force, a Dutch unit that provides air support for the mission in... Read more

Singapore suspends Apache training after tail-boom slice

Singapore suspends Apache training after tail-boom slice

30-Sep-2010Source: Asia One

Accident was reported in HeliHub.com’s safety data here – 30-Sep-10 069 Boeing AH-64 Sembawang, Singapore... Read more

Northrop Grumman and US Navy partner for Advance Rotorcraft Development

Northrop Grumman and US Navy partner for Advance Rotorcraft Development

30-Sep-2010Source: Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC 60.63, -.00, -0.01%) has partnered with the U.S. Naval Aviation Center for Rotorcraft Advancement (NACRA) to provide its Digital Avionics Suite technology for retrofitting NACRA’s UH-1N helicopter as an avionics test bed for future rotary wing hardware and software developments. Northrop Grumman is supplying NACRA with a stand-alone Digital Avionics Suite... Read more

VT Group acquires Evergreen Unmanned Systems

VT Group acquires Evergreen Unmanned Systems

30-Sep-2010Source: VT Group

VT Group today announced that it has acquired the Evergreen Unmanned Systems business unit, part of Evergreen International Aviation Inc. Evergreen Unmanned Systems is a leading provider of support for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The firm has a proven performance record for both the ScanEagle and Maveric platforms, with more than 10,000 hours of flight... Read more

Royal Navy tests Merlin’s sensors and weapons

Royal Navy tests Merlin’s sensors and weapons

30-Sep-2010Source: Royal Navy

A detachment of Royal Navy aircrew and engineers have spent a week thoroughly testing the Merlin helicopter’s sensors and weapons to ensure that aircrew are ready for any operational deployment that they may be tasked with. The weapon and sensor trials were carried out at the British Underwater Test and Evaluation Centre situated on Inner... Read more

$25M contract awarded for Phase 3 of VMMT-204’s maintenance hangar at MCB Camp Lejeune

$25M contract awarded for Phase 3 of VMMT-204’s maintenance hangar at MCB Camp Lejeune

30-Sep-2010Source: US Dept of Defense

F&S Mechanical and Plumbing Services, Inc.*, Tyrone, Ga., is being awarded a $25,637,205 firm-fixed-price contract for construction of the Vertical Marine Medium Tiltrotor Training Squadron 204 maintenance hangar, Phase 3, at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. The work to be performed provides for the design and construction of a multi-story aircraft maintenance hangar addition, to... Read more

EADS awarded $67M contract for UH-72 mission equipment packs

EADS awarded $67M contract for UH-72 mission equipment packs

30-Sep-2010Source: US Dept of Defense

EADS North America Defense, Arlington, Va., was awarded on Sept. 23 a $67,163,000 firm-fixed-price contract. T his modification is for the procurement of 16 security and support (S&S) mission equipment package (MEP) retrofit and 202 S&S MEP retrofit production cut-in for the S&S ballation MEP’s Army’s light utility helicopter contract for the Army National Guard.... Read more

Texas Aerospace Services awarded $12M five-year contract to overhaul UH-60 servos and yaw trim

Texas Aerospace Services awarded $12M five-year contract to overhaul UH-60 servos and yaw trim

30-Sep-2010Source: US Dept of Defense

Texas Aerospace Services Ltd., LLP, Abilene, Texas, was awarded on Sept. 22 a $12,016,795 firm-fixed-price contract. This is a five-year maintenance and overhaul indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the overhaul of the UH-60 servo, yaw trim. Delivery Order 0001 will be awarded simultaneously with the basic for a total dollar value of $1,137,950. Work is to be... Read more

Kollsman awarded $45M contract for AH-1W night targeting system upgrades

Kollsman awarded $45M contract for AH-1W night targeting system upgrades

30-Sep-2010Source: US Dept of Defense

Kollsman, Inc., Merrimack, N.H., is being awarded a $45,478,845 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for procurement of night targeting system upgrades and associated line items for the for the AH-1W Cobra helicopter. The electro-optics system provides infrared and range finding capability to augment existing optical and radar sensors for the purpose of detecting and identifying asymmetric threats.... Read more

Sikorsky awarded $118M contract modification for H-53 components logistical support

Sikorsky awarded $118M contract modification for H-53 components logistical support

30-Sep-2010Source: US Dept of Defense

The Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., is being awarded an $118,944,070 firm-fixed-price requirements contract modification to previously awarded contract (N00383-06-D-003F) for logistics support for components of the H-53 helicopter. Work will be performed in Stratford, Conn., and work is expected to be completed by September 2015. Contract funds will not expire before the end of... Read more

AH-1Z successfully completes OpEval

AH-1Z successfully completes OpEval

30-Sep-2010Source: U S Marine Corps

NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — The U.S. Marine Corps’ newest attack helicopter, the AH-1Z Cobra has successfully completed its Operational Evaluation (OPEVAL). On Sept. 24, NAVAIR’s H-1 Upgrades program office received official notification from the Navy’s Commander Operational Test and Evaluation Force that its AH-1Z helicopters were found to be “operationally effective... Read more

British Army helicopters embark on Royal Navy flagship for exercise

British Army helicopters embark on Royal Navy flagship for exercise

30-Sep-2010Source: Royal Navy

A detachment of Apache attack helicopters from the Army Air Corps has landed onboard the Royal Navy’s fleet flagship HMS Ark Royal to take part in Exercise Joint Warrior in October 2010. Apaches are used extensively by the Army Air Corps in land operations but over the next few weeks they will train to broaden... Read more

US-initiated Mi-17s for Afghanistan now approved by Russian Government

US-initiated Mi-17s for Afghanistan now approved by Russian Government

30-Sep-2010Source: Defense Technology

Defense Technology Inc. (DTI) announced that its procurement plan for twenty-one new Mi-17 aircraft has been approved by the Russian Government. Under RFQ N00019-10-R-0032, the United States Navy is competitively purchasing twenty-one Russian, civil variant Mi-17 aircraft for Afghanistan. These medium lift helicopters are the primary support aircraft of the Afghan National Army Air Force... Read more

CAE wins defence contracts valued at more than Can$75M

CAE wins defence contracts valued at more than Can$75M

30-Sep-2010Source: CAE

CAE today announced it has won defence contracts valued at more than C$75 million. Contracts include upgrading visual and display systems at the German Army Aviation School, renewing a long-term CF-18 systems engineering services agreement for the Canadian Forces, upgrading C-130J simulators for the U.K. Royal Air Force and upgrading a C-130H simulator for an... Read more

Russian Helicopters – board approves management changes

Russian Helicopters – board approves management changes

30-Sep-2010Source: Russian Helicopters

The Russian Helicopters (an Oboronprom subsidiary) Board of Directors has approved a new company management system. In accordance with the resolutions passed, starting from 27 September UIC OBORONROM will cease to be the managing company of Russian Helicopters, JSC. Dmitry Petrov has been appointed the new CEO of Russian Helicopters. Before taking this position he... Read more

Northrop Grumman partners with US Navy to advance rotorcraft development

Northrop Grumman partners with US Navy to advance rotorcraft development

30-Sep-2010Source: Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman has partnered with the U.S. Naval Aviation Center for Rotorcraft Advancement (NACRA) to provide its Digital Avionics Suite technology for retrofitting NACRA’s UH-1N helicopter as an avionics test bed for future rotary wing hardware and software developments. Northrop Grumman is supplying NACRA with a stand-alone Digital Avionics Suite and integration support for installing... Read more

LaBarge awarded $1M contract from Lord Corp

LaBarge awarded $1M contract from Lord Corp

30-Sep-2010Source: LaBarge

LaBarge, a provider of electronics manufacturing services (EMS), has been awarded a $1 million contract from LORD Corporation to produce electronic assemblies for military and civilian helicopters. LaBarge anticipates follow-on orders. ”We are pleased to be selected by LORD as a manufacturing partner and look forward to further developing this new customer relationship. We use... Read more

L-3 Vertex Aerospace awarded $18M option for TH-57 support

L-3 Vertex Aerospace awarded $18M option for TH-57 support

29-Sep-2010Source: US Dept of Defense

L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace, LLC, Madison, Miss., is being awarded an $18,530,000 modification to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery requirements contract (N00019-05-D-0023) to exercise an option for logistics support for TH-57B/TH-57C aircraft.  Work will be performed at Naval Air Station (NAS) Whiting Field, Milton, Fla. (99 percent), and NAS Patuxent River, Md. (1 percent).  Work is... Read more

Northrop Grumman and Bell conduct first “Power-On” of new Fire-X UAV

Northrop Grumman and Bell conduct first “Power-On” of new Fire-X UAV

29-Sep-2010Source: Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman Corporation and Bell Helicopter have moved a significant step closer to being able to offer military users a vertical unmanned system that can ferry cargo — either internally or externally — over extended distances. On Sept. 17, the team applied external power for the first time to the main computers and associated subsystems... Read more

Bolivia plans to buy six Russian helicopters

Bolivia plans to buy six Russian helicopters

29-Sep-2010Source: La Tercera

These plans have been confirmed by Russia’s ambassador to Bolivia, Leonid Golubev.  The type of helicopter has not been disclosed... Read more

Helicopter accident analysis – August 2010

Helicopter accident analysis – August 2010

29-Sep-2010Source: HeliHub.com

HeliHub.com maintains what we believe to be the most comprehensive record of helicopter accidents and incidents on the internet.  From this month onwards, we will produce montly summary reports, and we will also continue to produce our very comprehensive annual report. Useful Links * Civil Accidents * Military Accidents * Fatal Accidents – both civil... Read more

Parvus receives follow-on contract for US Navy SeaHawk program

Parvus receives follow-on contract for US Navy SeaHawk program

29-Sep-2010Source: Parvus

Eurotech subsidiary Parvus Corporation announced a follow-on contract with Lockheed Martin Systems Integration – Owego to supply rugged VME Ethernet switch cards for the Navy’s MH-60 R and MH-60S SEAHAWK helicopters. For more than six years, Parvus has supplied rugged VME Ethernet switches in support of the Navy helicopter program. The latest follow-on contract for... Read more

Light military helicopter market seen as instable in the long-term

Light military helicopter market seen as instable in the long-term

28-Sep-2010Source: Forecast International

In a new study, “The Market for Light Military Rotorcraft,” Forecast International projects that 1,941 rotorcraft will be built between 2010 and 2019. The value of this production is estimated at $23.4 billion in constant 2010 U.S. dollars. The Forecast International study generally defines a light military rotorcraft as one with a maximum gross weight... Read more

Telephonics to upgrade Sikorsky’s monopulse secondary surveillance radar

Telephonics to upgrade Sikorsky’s monopulse secondary surveillance radar

28-Sep-2010Source: Telephonics

Telephonics Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation, announced today that its Electronics System Division received an order for a Sky Search-2000M® Monopulse Secondary Surveillance Radar (MSSR) from Sikorsky Aircraft. The MSSR will be installed at Sikorsky’s Stratford, CT airfield used to test and validate their vast array of rotary and fixed wing aircraft.... Read more

US Marines receives sixth Osprey trainer

US Marines receives sixth Osprey trainer

28-Sep-2010Source: Boeing

The Bell Boeing V-22 Program, a strategic alliance between Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Bell Helicopter, has delivered the sixth and final MV-22 Osprey Containerized Flight Training Device (CFTD) to the U.S. Marines. In the past year, the team has delivered five CFTDs to the Marines, as well as upgrades to two trainers delivered previously. The... Read more

UAE and Lebanon’s military bond becomes stronger

UAE and Lebanon’s military bond becomes stronger

28-Sep-2010Source: The National

Ali al Matroushi, a member of Federal National Council’s defence committee, said: “The UAE has a special relationship with Lebanon.” That relationship extends back many years: the UAE Armed Forces took part in mine-clearing operations in Lebanon during the 1980s and mid-2000s, he said.... Read more

AgustaWestland congratulates 2010 Cormorant Trophy winners

AgustaWestland congratulates 2010 Cormorant Trophy winners

28-Sep-2010Source: AgustaWestland

AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica Company, is pleased to announce that the crew of “Rescue 912” from Canadian Forces Squadron 103 in Gander, Newfoundland has been selected as the winner of the 2010 Cormorant Trophy for Helicopter Rescue. The winning search and rescue crew comprising Major Steve Reid of Centreville, Nova Scotia; Captain Priscilla Jobin of Ste-Foy,... Read more

Royal Air Force Chinook pilots honoured for bravery

Royal Air Force Chinook pilots honoured for bravery

27-Sep-2010Source: Royal Air Force

19 Royal Air Force personnel have been honoured in the Armed Forces Operational Awards and Joint Commander’s Commendations for their bravery and service in Afghanistan and during UK Operations and Search and Rescue missions. Three Chinook pilots based at RAF Odiham in Hampshire were awarded the prestigious Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) one of which was... Read more

Military contract fears put 100 jobs at risk at Eurocopter UK

Military contract fears put 100 jobs at risk at Eurocopter UK

27-Sep-2010Source: Oxford Mail

Directors at Eurocopter UK, based at Oxford Airport, admitted there is now a 50% chance of the contract to overhaul and upgrade 30 Pumas for the RAF being scrapped, even though work has already started.... Read more

ATK receives more than $50M for AH-1 20mm ammunition

ATK receives more than $50M for AH-1 20mm ammunition

24-Sep-2010Source: ATK

Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) has received an order valued at more than $50 million from the U.S. Army Contracting Command, Rock Island Contracting Center (RICC), Rock Island, Ill., to produce multiple variants of 20mm PGU ammunition. This is the second order under a contract originally signed in September 2008. If all options are exercised, ATK’s... Read more

Lockheed Martin names new head of Corporate Strategy And Business Development

Lockheed Martin names new head of Corporate Strategy And Business Development

24-Sep-2010Source: Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Board of Directors today named Patrick M. Dewar, 49, as the corporation’s new senior vice president, Corporate Strategy and Business Development, effective Oct. 1. Dewar, who currently serves as Lockheed Martin’s International Business Development vice president, succeeds Robert H. Trice, 64, who has announced plans to retire in February. “Pat’s broad... Read more

Sikorsky’s VP of Materials Planning leaves to join Passur Aerospace

Sikorsky’s VP of Materials Planning leaves to join Passur Aerospace

24-Sep-2010Source: Passur Aerospace

PASSUR Aerospace, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: PSSR) announced today that Michael J. Paul, President of Predictive Business Systems (PBS), has joined PASSUR’s Technology Advisory Board as Executive Director. Prior to starting PBS, Michael was the CIO and Vice President of Materials Planning at Sikorsky Aircraft, a division of United Technologies (UTC). During the past 6 years he... Read more

Pakistan requests up to thirty more Bell 412s

Pakistan requests up to thirty more Bell 412s

24-Sep-2010Source: Defense Security Cooperation Agency

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress on 14 September of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Pakistan of BELL 412EP Helicopters as well as associated equipment and services. The total value, if all options are exercised, could be as high as $397 million. The Government of Pakistan has requested a possible sale of up... Read more

President Karimov of Uzbekistan holds talks with Sikorsky

President Karimov of Uzbekistan holds talks with Sikorsky

24-Sep-2010Source: Net News Publisher

President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov held negotiations with high-level representatives of General Motors, Sikorsky Aircraft and Honeywell companies in New York, US on Monday.... Read more

US Navy pilots under scrutiny for dip into Lake Tahoe

US Navy pilots under scrutiny for dip into Lake Tahoe

24-Sep-2010Source: San Diego Union Tribune

Two Navy helicopters from North Island Naval Air Station were damaged, and their pilots are now grounded, after some bizarre flying over Lake Tahoe last week... Read more

Bell-Boeing awarded $22M for V-22 Operational Test Program Sets

Bell-Boeing awarded $22M for V-22 Operational Test Program Sets

24-Sep-2010Source: US Dept of Defense

Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded a $22,362,630 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N68335-08-G-0002) for design, development, test, manufacture, and delivery of Lot IV Operational Test Program Sets (OTPSs), including production copies of the OTPSs for MV-22 and CV-22, on-site verification (OSV), and the procurement of... Read more

Rolls-Royce awarded $19M contract for forty C30R/3 engines

Rolls-Royce awarded $19M contract for forty C30R/3 engines

24-Sep-2010Source: US Dept of Defense

Rolls Royce Corp., Indianapolis, Ind., was awarded on Sept. 15 a $19,187,689 firm-fixed-price contract for 40 gas turbine engines M250/C30R/3 for the OH-58D Kiowa safety enhancement program with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2012.  Work is to be performed at Indianapolis, Ind.  One bid was solicited with one received.  Army Contracting Command, Redstone... Read more

US Army showcases UH-72A Lakota in Germany

US Army showcases UH-72A Lakota in Germany

24-Sep-2010Source: EADS North America

The UH-72A Lakota was the center of attention at an unveiling ceremony held earlier this month in Germany, offering military officials from around the world a first-hand look at the U.S. Army’s multi-mission Light Utility Helicopter. The event – which attracted 23 delegates representing 17 countries – was held in accordance with the 1999 Vienna... Read more

Russia delivers three Mi-35M helicopters to Indonesia

Russia delivers three Mi-35M helicopters to Indonesia

24-Sep-2010Source: RIA Novosti

Russia has delivered three  Mi-35M Hind assault helicopters to Indonesia, a military source said on Thursday.... Read more

Air Comm wins $5M US Army contract

Air Comm wins $5M US Army contract

24-Sep-2010Source: Air Comm

Air Comm Corporation has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army to develop a cockpit heater/windshield defroster system for up to 400 OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopters, company President Keith Steiner announced today. Total potential contract value for the competitively bid program exceeds $5 million. The pursuit and award of the OH-58D heater program demonstrates... Read more

Battalion landing team’s Helicopter Company seizes airfield during first exercise

Battalion landing team’s Helicopter Company seizes airfield during first exercise

24-Sep-2010Source: US Marine Corps

U.S. NAVAL BASE GUAM  — Company C, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, conducted its first mock airfield seizure as the MEU’s Helicopter Company, Sept. 19. According to 1st Lt. Jeremiah Adams, Company C Executive Officer, the airfield seizure mission is what defines the helicopter company. “The airfield seizure is... Read more

Lithuanian Mi-8 lands on US Navy ship as part of Jackal Stone exercise

Lithuanian Mi-8 lands on US Navy ship as part of Jackal Stone exercise

23-Sep-2010Source: US Navy

Helicopter-to-ship boarding training was given to special operations forces (SOF) from seven countries aboard USS Mount Whitney (LCC/JCC 20) during exercise Jackal Stone (JS10) 2010, Sep. 19. Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 28, Det One, the “Ghost Riders”, is embarked aboard Mount Whitney supporting the JS10 mission by conducting flight operations at sea with members... Read more

Brazil may add another 18 Mi-35 gunships

Brazil may add another 18 Mi-35 gunships

23-Sep-2010

The Brazilian Ministry of Development has agreed to a visit from a large Russian business delegation that will arrive in Brasilia in early October. Their package deal offer includes a new batch of 18 Mi-35M combat helicopters... Read more

Dutch to upgrade Cougars

Dutch to upgrade Cougars

23-Sep-2010Source: FlightGlobal

The Dutch military has announced plans to perform a mid-life update for its 17 Eurocopter AS532 Cougars from 2012... Read more

AC313 carries out trials on Chinese Navy hospital ship

AC313 carries out trials on Chinese Navy hospital ship

23-Sep-2010Source: People Daily

A new model of rescue medical helicopter is seen aboard hospital ship “Peace Ark” of the Navy of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army prior to its takeoff during an exercise over the Indian Ocean... Read more

Goodrich awarded $6.8M contract for H-60 electronic digital engine control units

Goodrich awarded $6.8M contract for H-60 electronic digital engine control units

23-Sep-2010Source: US Dept of Defense

Goodrich Pump & Engine Control Systems, Inc., West Hartford, Conn., is being awarded a $6,853,008 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of 348 electronic digital engine control units for the H-60 helicopter.  Work will be performed in West Hartford, Conn., and is expected to be completed in August 2013.  Contract funds in the amount of $748,317... Read more

Pave-Tech wins $5.6M US Navy contract for the design/repair of taxiways for helicopters

Pave-Tech wins $5.6M US Navy contract for the design/repair of taxiways for helicopters

23-Sep-2010Source: US Dept of Defense

Pave-Tech, Inc., Carlsbad, Calif., is being awarded $5,640,000 for firm-fixed-price task order #0006 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract (N62473-09-D-1605) for milling and paving portions of the airfield at Navy Outlying Field, Imperial Beach.  The work to be performed provides for the design and repair of airfield taxiways for helicopters.  The task order... Read more

RAF Sea King crew hailed for Cumbrian flood rescues at Shephard 2010 SAR Awards

RAF Sea King crew hailed for Cumbrian flood rescues at Shephard 2010 SAR Awards

23-Sep-2010Source: Shephard

A rescue helicopter crew from 22 Sqn ‘C’ Flight of the UK’s Royal Air Force have become the first winners of the new annual Shephard SAR award.... Read more

Eurocopter inaugurates extension of its Aviation Training Academy in Kassel

Eurocopter inaugurates extension of its Aviation Training Academy in Kassel

22-Sep-2010Source: Eurocopter

Eurocopter, the internationally leading German-French-Spanish helicopter manufacturer, inaugurated a new building complex at its Aviation Training Academy today in the Marbachhöhe Technology Park near Kassel, Germany, as part of its 40th anniversary celebration. The ground-breaking for the 1,000 square meter building took place on April 13, meaning that the extension has been completed in only... Read more

Military Police of Santa Catarina launches air operations

Military Police of Santa Catarina launches air operations

22-Sep-2010Source: Diario Catarinense

The Military Police of Santa Catarina start air operations with a Seneca fixed wing and an AS350.  A second helicopter is expected before the year end.... Read more

Bell names team to lead innovation efforts

Bell names team to lead innovation efforts

22-Sep-2010Source: Bell

Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, is pleased to announce that it has named its 2010 Engineering Technical Fellows. This team of technical leaders is tasked with building and maintaining a 20-year technology roadmap that will introduce new products and improve existing platforms. Chosen based on their depth of engineering design scholarship and... Read more

Lockheed Martin receives $10M to migrate MH-60s to the Joint Mission Planning System

Lockheed Martin receives $10M to migrate MH-60s to the Joint Mission Planning System

22-Sep-2010Source: Lockheed Martin

The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] a $10 million contract to develop software that will enable MH-60R and MH-60S multi-mission helicopter aircrews the latest technology to pre-plan their missions for maximum success. The U.S. military’s Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS) was developed by the U.S. Navy and Air Force based on a commercial-off-the-shelf... Read more

Australian Aerospace says MRH90 helicopters are on track

Australian Aerospace says MRH90 helicopters are on track

22-Sep-2010Source: Australian Aerospace

Leading defence contractor, Australian Aerospace Limited, says it is on track to meet its 2010 schedule for deliveries of NH90 MRH multi-role helicopters to the Australian Defence Force (ADF). Australian Aerospace, which produces the MRH90s at its final assembly facility on Brisbane Airport, delivered its 13th MRH90 on 3 September 2010. Another three helicopters are... Read more

Lockheed Martin delivers IP tactical comms Radio to AH-64D Integration Laboratory

Lockheed Martin delivers IP tactical comms Radio to AH-64D Integration Laboratory

21-Sep-2010Source: Lockheed Martin

A developmental radio for a revolutionary Internet-Protocol tactical communications network has been delivered ahead of schedule to the U.S. Army AH-64D Integration Team. The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] team delivered a preliminary engineering development model radio with essential Link-16 functionality to the Airborne and Maritime Fixed Station Joint Tactical Radio System (AMF JTRS) Program Office.... Read more

Mexico orders six more EC725s

Mexico orders six more EC725s

21-Sep-2010Source: Eurocopter

The Mexican Ministry of Defense has signed an agreement with Eurocopter for the purchase of six EC725 helicopters. Together with the same number of rotary-wing aircraft ordered in March of last year, Eurocopter will now be supplying a total of 12 EC725s to Mexico’s SEDENA (Secretaría de La Defensa Nacional) beginning in the second quarter... Read more

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