Helicopter News

Even as the U.S. mission in Iraq winds down, the new Boeing [BA] Ch-47F Chinook helicopter has been pushed hard by the Blackcats of B/2-227 Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry […]

Australia has signed an approximately $467.6 million contract with the U.S. Army Security Assistance Command to acquire seven CH-47F Chinook helicopters, two simulators and associated spares. Boeing [BA] produces the […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently announced it hit the target in two tests featuring Direct Attack Guided Rocket (DAGR) guided rockets launched from an airborne OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter. DAGR is […]

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. [UTX] and PZL Mielec, its company in Poland, recently announced the completion of final assembly on the first S-70iTM BLACK HAWK helicopter, an international variant of the […]

Boeing [BA] recently announced its A160T Hummingbird has successfully completed a cargo delivery demonstration under a Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory contract, proving the unmanned rotorcraft’s ability to resupply frontline troops […]

The Army wants to develop critical performance and affordable drive system technologies for the current/future force rotorcraft and has issued a broad agency announcement for the Future Advanced Rotorcraft Drive […]

COLUMBUS, Miss.–The Army received the keys and logbook to the100th UH-72A Lakota light-utility helicopter from EADS North America in ceremonies here recently. Behind the stage, four Lakotas and an American […]

Sikorsky Aerospace Services [UTX] recently announced that Helicopter Support Inc. (HSI), a Sikorsky Aerospace Services company, has been chosen to provide a Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) program for Navy Light […]

By Geoff Fein As the Marine Corps continues to make a case for sea basing, service officials can point to the ongoing humanitarian assistance operations in Haiti as proof that […]