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Navy/USMC

Confident in Twin-Engine Pitch, Airbus Readies For Navy Trainer Production

Thursday, May 9th, 2019

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Confident in Twin-Engine Pitch, Airbus Readies For Navy Trainer Production

Airbus is offering its H135 in the company's bid to build the new Navy training helicopter. (Courtesy: Airbus)

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Conspicuously absent from the show floor at the Navy League’s annual Sea-Air-Space Conference was the Airbus H135, given that its main competitors to build the Navy’s next training aircraft both brought helicopters to the event. Bell’s [TXT] 407GXi, painted shiny black with red-and-white striped rotors sat opposed to Leonardo’s TH-119 military trainer painted white with red stripes with “Marines” printed on the tail boom. About 100 yards away, Airbus displayed only a model of the H135,…

Army

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Congress

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Congress

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