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Navy/USMC

Airbus Points to 5.5 Million Hours of H135 IFR Flight as Key in Offering for Navy Trainer

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, September 25th, 2019

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Airbus Points to 5.5 Million Hours of H135 IFR Flight as Key in Offering for Navy Trainer

Airbus Helicopters is offering the H135 in the U.S. Navy Advanced Helicopter Training System competition. Photo: Airbus

COLUMBUS, Miss.— Airbus Helicopters is pointing to the twin engine H135 helicopter's 5.5 million hours of instrument flight rules (IFR) experience since the year 2000 as a key differentiator in the Navy Advanced Helicopter Training System (AHTS) TH-73, formerly known as TH-XX, competition to replace the service's fleet of TH-57 trainers based at Naval Air Station Whiting Field, Fla. The H135 "has a proven IFR capability, which is a baseline customer requirement, and therefore [the H135 is] pretty much zero…

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