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Army’s UH-60V With Northrop Grumman’s Digital Cockpit Gets Airworthiness Certification

Army’s UH-60V With Northrop Grumman’s Digital Cockpit Gets Airworthiness Certification
Northrop Grumman’s digital cockpit will keep the U.S. Army’s legacy Black Hawk aircraft in the fight for decades to come. The system recently completed initial operational test and evaluation. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army)

Northrop Grumman [NOC] said Monday the UH-60V Black Hawk, which is a retrofit of the UH-60L upgraded with the company’s ‘digital cockpit’ suite and OpenLift architecture, has received official certification to fly in all conditions. The Army Systems Readiness Directorate granted an Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) Airworthiness Release for the UH-60V as the program heads into a second initial operational test and evaluation phase. “Achieving IFR airworthiness is a major milestone for the UH-60V with OpenLift,” Lindsay McEwen, Northrop Grumman’s vice…

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