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Army

Sikorsky Begins Black Hawk Ground Runs With New GE T901 Engines

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025

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Sikorsky Begins Black Hawk Ground Runs With New GE T901 Engines

Sikorsky started ground runs on a UH-60M Black Hawk equipped with two Improved Turbine Engines (ITE) in West Palm Beach, Florida. Photos courtesy Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company

Sikorsky [LMT] on Wednesday said it has started ground runs with the new GE Aerospace [GE] T901 engines integrated on a Black Hawk helicopter, ahead of the first test flight later this year. GE Aerospace added that the successful ground runs with its T901 engines, developed under the Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP), “successfully validated the initial performance of all critical systems — including fuel, electrical, hydraulic, engine and flight control systems and engine bay flow” on the UH-60M Black…

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