Helicopter News

The CEO of the North American division of Airbus parent company EADS survived a late-night Aug. 9 plane crash in southwestern Alaska that claimed five lives, among them former U.S. […]

Colombia would spend $162 million in a Foreign Military Sale to buy UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and associated support, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress Aug. 5. The […]

Sikorsky [UTX] Aircraft Corporation said the successful completion of the CH-53K Heavy Lift Helicopter Program Critical Design Review (CDR) event, signals the program is ready to proceed to assembly, test […]

Sikorsky [UTX] Innovations, the technology development organization of Sikorsky Aircraft, today officially introduced “Project Firefly,” an all-electric helicopter technology demonstrator, at the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) AirVenture exhibition. The Firefly […]

Last month’s award of the Navy’s Small Tactical Unmanned Aerial System (STUAS) Tier II contract to Insitu took the company from being a provider of service contracts and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) […]

Two more companies have announced their intent to seek a potential contract to build a replacement Air Force combat, search and rescue (CSAR) helicopter fleet. Boeing [BA] and the European […]

Sikorsky‘s [UTX] X2 Technology(tm) demonstrator recently unofficially broke the speed record for rotorcraft, achieving a maximum speed of 225 knots in a one-hour test flight at the Development Flight Center. […]

The fleet of three EADS EC665 Tiger HAPs (combat support), operated by the French Army’s 5th Combat Helicopter Regiment, has now logged more than 1,000 flight hours in Afghanistan in […]

By Geoff Fein Raytheon [RTN] and Boeing [BA] have wrapped up the first of three planned government-sponsored Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) firings at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., according to […]