Helicopter News

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. [UTX] said recently it was awarded the Combat Tempered Platform Demonstration (CTPD) contract to build on and improve the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter by developing and integrating […]

The Japanese government has agreed to allow the U.S. Marine Corps to fly V-22 Ospreys in the country following Pentagon investigations into two recent crashes involving the tilt-rotor aircraft that […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–Northrop Grumman [NOC] and AgustaWestland signed a teaming agreement to compete for both the Air Force’s Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) program and the Navy’s new Marine One presidential […]

General Atomics’ Reaper (MQ-9) unmanned aerial vehicle has successfully completed a series of automatic takeoffs and landings for the first time, the company said recently.    The takeoffs and landings […]

Eurocopter recently said it handed over its first upgraded Puma Mk2 helicopter to the U.K. Ministry of Defense. The modified aircraft received modifications to improve performance, mission capability and safety, […]

Sikorsky Aerospace Services (SAS) [UTX] and PZL Mielec, which produce S-70i™ Black Hawk helicopters in Poland, said they signed a Letter of Intent with Poland’s principal maintenance, repair and overhaul […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently said it received a $111 million Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) Performance Based Logistics (PBL) contract from the Army.  The contract consists […]

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said it notified Congress recently of a possible Foreign Military Sale of (FMS) of eight AH-64D Apache Block III Longbow attack helicopters and associated […]