Helicopter News

U.K.-based Cobham plc said on July 15 that it completed the acquisition of the 50 percent it did not already own in FB Heliservices Ltd, FB Leasing Limited and FBS […]

Toronto-based engineering team AeroVelo July 11 received the AHS Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Challenge award and its $250,000 prize. Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. [UTX] congratulated AeroVelo Inc. and with […]

The Pentagon’s watchdog has identified $23.4 billion so far in 2013 that the Defense Department could have spent more wisely, according to a senior DoD official. The DoD Inspector General’s […]

Sikorsky Aerospace Services [TXT] said it appointed Vector Aerospace as an approved Customer Service Center (CSC) in the United Kingdom, during the Paris AirShow, and Vector said the fourth Sikorsky VIP S-76 helicopter […]

Follow-on testing of the Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center’s (AMRDEC) fly-by-wire Rotorcraft Aircrew Systems Concept Airborne Laboratory, or "RASCAL," points toward the next generation of unmanned […]

Gen. James Amos, the commandant of the Marine Corps, said he is committed to ensuring that the service’s unmanned helicopter program for delivering cargo becomes a program of record.  The […]

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said it notified Congress of a potential foreign military sale (FMS) to Thailand of six UH-72A Lakota helicopters and associated parts and support worth […]

 The Longbow Limited Liability Company (LLC), a joint venture of Lockheed Martin [LMT] andNorthrop Grumman Corp. [NOC], received a $90.6 million contract to provide Saudi Arabia with Longbow Fire Control Radars (FCRs) for the AH-64 Apache Attack […]

TransDigm [TDG] said it has agreed to acquire a business of General Electric’s [GE] Aviation division that supplies motion control subsystems for civil and military aircraft. TransDigm said it would pay $150 […]