Helicopter News

In 2016 the Navy will conduct another series of tests of a modified, vertically-launched Longbow Hellfire missile before integrating it on the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) in 2017, a program […]

ATLANTA–On a bright and sunny late April day, Army Program Executive Officer (PEO) for Aviation Brig. Gen. Bob Marion took the main stage to explain his grand vision of what […]

Saab received an order from the Swedish Defence Material Administration (FMV) for continued delivery of complete support and maintenance for Helicopter 15 (Finmeccanica’s AgustaWestland AW109) during 2018 and 2019, the […]

Airbus delivered the first two of five total H145M helicopters to the Royal Thai Navy following a successful technical acceptance, the company said April 29. The lightweight multi-role H145M is […]

The LONGBOW LLC won a $57 million U.S. Army Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract to provide the Indian Air Force with Fire Control Radar (FCR) systems for new AH-64E Apache […]

ATLANTA—Bell Helicopter Textron [TXT] achieved a major milestone in its V-280 tilt rotor aircraft development on April 21 when it mated the wing to the fuselage. Bell Director of Advanced […]

ATLANTA — Boeing [BA] is looking to expand an unique sustainment partnership with customers that use both CH-47 Chinook and AH-64 Apaches that drives cost savings by reducing the replication […]

The House Armed Service Committee (HASC) is seeking to restore, with war funding, some of the deep cuts the Army plans to make to helicopter procurement to pay for near-term […]

ATLANTA–The increasing weight of Army helicopters has become such a problem a key officer believes it is limiting, as opposed to providing, options to a commander.   U.S. Army Aviation Center […]