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Army Conducts First Flight Of Fully-Upgraded UH-60V Black Hawk

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, September 14th, 2020

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Army Conducts First Flight Of Fully-Upgraded UH-60V Black Hawk

Army flies fully-upgraded UH-60V Black Hawk for the first time. Photo: Corpus Christi Army Depot.

The Army on Friday conducted the first flight of the modernized UH-60V Black Hawk, which is a retrofit of the UH-60L upgraded with Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] ‘digital cockpit’ suite. “The Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD) had its first flight of [the] newest configuration of the Army's UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. Since its original induction as a UH-60 Lima (L model) airframe, CCAD configured this helicopter into the current UH-60 Victor (V model),” CCAD said in a social media post. While…

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