5-Mar-2014Source: CAE
CAE today announced it is designing and manufacturing a UH-60 Black Hawk full-mission simulator to be used by the Mexican Federal Police. ACADEMI, a security services company and prime contractor, awarded CAE USA a subcontract in late September 2013. ACADEMI was contracted by the United States Department of Defense Counter Narcoterrorism Program Office (CNTPO) to... Read more
19-Sep-2013
A federal police helicopter crashed into the mountain range inthe southern state of Guerrero, killing all three crew members and two passengers onboard... Read more
22-Nov-2012
Emergency landing after helicopter damaged in bird strike... Read more
17-May-2012Source: HeliHub.com
T his news item is part of the accident data provided by HeliHub.com on this site. Information provided in this update may potentially be incomplete or inaccurate as we frequently post these stories only a very short time after the accident has occurred. Users of HeliHub.com are advised to carry out their own checks and... Read more
16-May-2012
Crashed from low level during take-off and ended up on its starboard side within the police compound. Press statement said it was a mechanical issue. Pilot named as VÃctor Ojeda Esqueda and passengers were Secretary of Public Security Jesús Pinto Ortiz and director of the State Preventive Police, VÃctor Manuel Bosques.  All three to hospital. ... Read more
24-Jan-2011
[We include this Sikorsky press release merely for completeness. HeliHub.com reported this story over seven weeks ago here] The Department of State has delivered three UH-60M BLACK HAWK helicopters to the Government of Mexico’s Federal Police (FP). Designed and manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX), the aircraft are the first... Read more
8-Dec-2010
The helicopter was carrying six security officers, two inmates, an official from the country’s organized crime investigation unit, and two pilots. Local reports differ on the number of fatalities, some saying 3, others 4, others 7. Weather was apparently a factor... Read more
1-Dec-2010Source: Policia Federal
In a ceremony headed by the Secretary of Public Security, Genaro Garcia Luna Engineer and U.S. Ambassador Carlos Pascual Mexico , in the Command Center of the Federal Police , carried out the delivery of three UH-60M Black Hawk, aircraft entirely new, specially designed to the specifications required by the federal Public Security Secretariat. The... Read more
8-May-2009
8-May-09 Sikorsky S70A La Quebradora, Huitzilac, Mexico... Read more
