TH-XX Advanced Navy Trainer

The Navy recently awarded Leonardo’s AgustaWestland a $111 million modification, exercising an option to produce another 26 TH-73A Thrasher Lot IV training helicopters.  AgustaWestland first won an initial $176 million […]

The Navy awarded Leonardo’s AgustaWestland a $159 million modification on Dec. 17 to produce and deliver 36 additional TH-73A Advanced Helicopter Training Systems. The Navy first awarded the company an […]

Leonardo delivered the first new TH-73A Navy training helicopter during a ceremony on Thursday at its facility in Philadelphia. The ceremony included Vice Admiral Kenneth Whitesell, commander of Naval Air […]

The Navy awarded Vertex Aerospace a $70 million contract for base year Contractor Logistics and Maintenance Support (CLS) for the service’s new TH-73A trainer helicopter, Naval Air Systems Command said […]

This week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) outlined why it denied Airbus’ protest of the Leonardo‘s win to build the  next Navy helicopter trainer aircraft while revealing Leonardo’s offer was […]

Leonardo’s AgustaWestland is now cleared to build the Navy’s new helicopter trainer after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied a protest of its win by competitor Airbus Helicopters. In January, […]

Airbus Helicopters lodged a protest last week with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) against the Navy choosing Leonardo for the Navy’s new helicopter training aircraft. Last month, Naval Air Systems […]

In a hotly contested competition, the Navy on Monday selected Leonardo’s AgustaWestland to produce and deliver the new TH-73A Advanced Helicopter Training Systems as the new Navy trainer. Other competitors […]

About a month after the FAA cleared the Leonardo TH-119 to fly in inclement weather under instrument flight rules (IFR), on Aug. 15 Bell [TXT] received IFR certification for the […]

Leonardo’s TH-119 is now cleared by the FAA to fly in inclement weather under instrument flight rules, the first single-engine helicopter in decades to earn that certification. “The TH-119 is […]