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Mexico requests 18 UH-60M Black Hawks

Mexico requests 18 UH-60M Black Hawks

23-Apr-2014Source: DSCA

The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Mexico for UH-60M Black Hawk Helicopters and associated equipment, parts, training and logistical support for an estimated cost of $680 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale on April 17, 2014. The... Read more

FAA creates new type of experimental certificate

FAA creates new type of experimental certificate

22-Apr-2014Source: Sikorsky

On Tuesday March 25th, SARA, the Sikorsky Autonomy Research Aircraft, reached yet another milestone as the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) granted a new type of experimental certificate – Optionally Piloted Vehicle Experimental Certificate for the aircraft. The event was a key step in the process as SARA makes her way to full autonomous flight. Members... Read more

Optionally-Piloted Black Hawk makes successful first flight

Optionally-Piloted Black Hawk makes successful first flight

22-Apr-2014Source: Sikorsky

In cooperation with the U.S. Army, Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. has successfully demonstrated optionally piloted flight of a Black Hawk helicopter, a significant step toward providing autonomous cargo delivery functionality to the U.S. Army. Sikorsky Aircraft is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX). The Optionally Piloted Black Hawk (OPBH) Demonstrator, known as Sikorsky’s Manned/Unmanned... Read more

China certifies Sikorsky S-76D

China certifies Sikorsky S-76D

21-Apr-2014Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. announced today that the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has issued a validation type certificate for the S-76D™ aircraft, allowing Sikorsky to begin delivering the commercial helicopter to customers in China. The announcement was made at the 2014 Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition. Sikorsky is a subsidiary of United Technologies... Read more

Lockheed Martin awarded $7.2M order for H-60R/S cockpit repairs

Lockheed Martin awarded $7.2M order for H-60R/S cockpit repairs

21-Apr-2014Source: US DoD

Lockheed Martin Corp., Owego, N.Y., is being awarded $ 7,265,034 for firm-fixed-priced delivery order 7026 against a previously awarded basic ordering agreement (N00383-12-G-010F) for the repair of 12 items of the common cockpit for H-60R/S helicopters. Work will be performed at Owego, N.Y. (77 percent); Farmingdale, N.Y. (9 percent); Phoenix, Ariz. (6 Percent); Salt Lake... Read more

Raytheon awarded $17M for MH-60R/S Multi-Spectral Targeting Systems

Raytheon awarded $17M for MH-60R/S Multi-Spectral Targeting Systems

17-Apr-2014Source: US DoD

Raytheon Co., McKinney, Texas, is being awarded $17,707,050 for modification 0044-01 to previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00164-12-G-JQ66) for 19 Multi-Spectral Targeting Systems for U.S. Navy MH-60R/S helicopters.  The system is an airborne, electro-optic, forward-looking infra-red, turreted sensor package that provides long-range surveillance, high altitude target acquisition, tracking, range-finding, and laser designation, and for all tri-service... Read more

Sikorsky tests CH-53K for airframe structural strength

Sikorsky tests CH-53K for airframe structural strength

11-Apr-2014Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX), has successfully completed an initial series of tests required by the Naval Air Systems Command to verify the structural strength of the CH-53K heavy lift helicopter. Conducted on a full-size non-flying airframe called the Static Test Article, the tests are part of a three-year program... Read more

10-Apr-14 Sikorsky S92 North Sea, UK

10-Apr-14 Sikorsky S92 North Sea, UK

10-Apr-2014

S92 helicopter returned to North Sea rig Brent Delta on flight to Scatsa after experiencing significant airframe vibration... Read more

Australian Sea Kings shipped to UK for breaking up

Australian Sea Kings shipped to UK for breaking up

9-Apr-2014Source: RAN

Shoalhaven residents had a last glimpse of 817 Squadron’s fleet of Sea King helicopters as the aircraft made their final journey from HMAS Albatross, on what was a suitably sombre, grey and rainy day. The helicopters were a familiar sight flying over the Shoalhaven for over 36 years, but may not have been immediately recognisable wrapped... Read more

09-Apr-14 Sikorsky UH-60 Wisemans Ferry, Australia

09-Apr-14 Sikorsky UH-60 Wisemans Ferry, Australia

9-Apr-2014

Immediate landing after unspecified cockpit warning light.  No reported damage... Read more

Erickson signs new 5 year contract with PlusPetrol Peru

Erickson signs new 5 year contract with PlusPetrol Peru

7-Apr-2014Source: Erickson

Erickson Air-Crane Incorporated EAC -2.32% (“Erickson” or “the Company”), a leading global provider of aviation services to a diverse mix of commercial and government customers, and the vertically-integrated manufacturer and operator of the powerful heavy-lift Erickson S-64 Aircrane helicopter, announced today that it has secured a new contract with PLUSPETROL PERU CORPORATION S.A., a leading exploration and production... Read more

Irish Coast Guard add names to their S92 fleet

Irish Coast Guard add names to their S92 fleet

3-Apr-2014Source: Sikorsky

The Irish Coast Guard turned to the people of Ireland when it came to choosing names for the S-92® helicopters that recently joined the fleet. The agency held a naming contest and asked residents to come up with names fitting the helicopter’s mission, Search and Rescue. The winners have been selected and will be honored... Read more

US Navy weapons program delivers new capability for H-60 helicopters

US Navy weapons program delivers new capability for H-60 helicopters

2-Apr-2014Source: US Navy

A modernized rocket  launcher will soon enable MH-60 Seahawk helicopters to carry and deploy a variety of weapons for the first time. As part of an Early Operational Capability (EOC), the Navy delivered the new system, called the Digital Rocket Launcher, to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 15 in March for pre-deployment training. DRL is... Read more

Kaman delivers its 1,000th H-60 helicopter cockpit to Sikorsky

Kaman delivers its 1,000th H-60 helicopter cockpit to Sikorsky

2-Apr-2014Source: Kaman

Kaman Aerosystems today announced delivery of  its 1,000th H-60 helicopter cockpit to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Sikorsky).  The milestone UH-60M BLACK HAWK helicopter cockpit was incorporated into an H-60 airframe that underwent final assembly at Sikorsky’s Bridgeport, Connecticut facility and was delivered to the U.S. Army. Kaman’s 1,000th H-60 cockpit delivery marks an eight year relationship... Read more

Sikorsky confirms it overcharged US Army for Black Hawk parts

Sikorsky confirms it overcharged US Army for Black Hawk parts

1-Apr-2014

Sikorsky will pay $3.5 million to settle claims that it overcharged the U.S. military for replacement Black Hawk components, the U.S. attorney for Connecticut said Monday.  See full story... Read more

Sikorsky awarded $15M for VH-3D cabin weight reduction project

Sikorsky awarded $15M for VH-3D cabin weight reduction project

31-Mar-2014Source: US DoD

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., is being awarded a $14,947,975 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order against a previously awarded Basic Ordering Agreement (N00019-14-G-0004) under the Cabin Interior Phase IIA Program, to include a cabin redesign to reduce the total gross weight allowing for greater lift capability of the VH-3D In-Service Presidential Helicopter. Work will be performed in... Read more

TFAB Ground Systems awarded $76M for Chinook and Blackhawk engine diagnostics

TFAB Ground Systems awarded $76M for Chinook and Blackhawk engine diagnostics

30-Mar-2014Source: US DoD

TFAB Ground Systems LLC*, Madison, Ala., was awarded a $76,812,703 modification (P00005) to contract W9124J-12-D-0011 for engine diagnostic systems to ensure readiness of Chinook and Blackhawk helicopter engines.  Funding and work performance location will be determined with each order.  Estimated completion date is May 24, 2018.  Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting... Read more

US Marines increase presence in Australia

US Marines increase presence in Australia

28-Mar-2014Source: USMC

Service members at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay departed here, March 25, to begin a six-month deployment to Australia’s Northern Territory as part of Marine Rotational Force – Darwin. Approximately 100 Marines from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463 (HMH-463) and Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 24 (MALS-24), as well as four CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters... Read more

Maritime Helicopter Support Co breaks ground on US Navy MH-60R maintenance facilities

Maritime Helicopter Support Co breaks ground on US Navy MH-60R maintenance facilities

26-Mar-2014Source: Sikorsky

The Maritime Helicopter Support Company (MHSCo) — a Sikorsky and Lockheed Martin joint venture company — today broke ground to build the maintenance and warehouse facilities that will provide Through Life Support logistics services for the Royal Australian Navy’s new fleet of 24 MH-60R SEAHAWK®helicopters. Once completed in early 2015, the two buildings, totaling more than 11,400... Read more

Raytheon awarded $17M contract for MH-60 minesweeping role

Raytheon awarded $17M contract for MH-60 minesweeping role

26-Mar-2014Source: US DoD

Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, Portsmouth, R.I., is being awarded a $17,683,352 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-10-C-6307) to fabricate, assemble, test and deliver three Airborne Mine Neutralization System (AMNS) low-rate initial production systems and provide engineering services and support.  The AMNS will explosively neutralize bottom and moored mines using an expendable mine neutralize device.  The... Read more

Sikorsky launches partnership in Trinidad and Tobago

Sikorsky launches partnership in Trinidad and Tobago

26-Mar-2014Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today announced the recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further explore Sikorsky’s potential participation in the Trinidad and Tobago Aviation Institute, scheduled to open in September. Sikorsky, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX), made the announcement during the FIDAE International Air and Space Fair here in Santiago. Under... Read more

Sikorsky awarded $21M more for VVIP helicopter rework

Sikorsky awarded $21M more for VVIP helicopter rework

26-Mar-2014Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., is being awarded a $21,624,392 modification to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00019-07-D-0004) to exercise an option for special progressive aircraft rework for one VH-3D and two VH-60N presidential helicopters, including two months of field level support.  Work will be performed in Stratford, Conn. (99 percent) and Quantico, Va. (1... Read more

25-Mar-14 Sikorsky UH-60 Hebron, Israel

25-Mar-14 Sikorsky UH-60 Hebron, Israel

25-Mar-2014

Force landing due to technical difficulties... Read more

20-Mar-14 Sikorsky S92 Aberdeen, UK

20-Mar-14 Sikorsky S92 Aberdeen, UK

20-Mar-2014

Engine warning – All 16 passengers and two crew landed in safely at Aberdeen Airport and the helicopter is being inspected by engineers.... Read more

Ducommun Expands Supplier Gold Status from Sikorsky

Ducommun Expands Supplier Gold Status from Sikorsky

19-Mar-2014Source: Ducommun

Ducommun Incorporated  today reported that it has earned Supplier Gold status from Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX), at its Berryville and Huntsville, Ark. facilities. Ducommun’s Joplin, Mo. plant has maintained UTC Supplier Gold status since 2010. The facilities manufacture complex custom interconnect and electronic assemblies for Sikorsky’s BLACK HAWK helicopters.... Read more

Sikorsky to review MH-53E engine fires

Sikorsky to review MH-53E engine fires

17-Mar-2014Source: HeliHub.com

A US Government website shows that the US Navy is to negotiate and award a sole source contract with Sikorsky for the procurement of non-recurring engineering tasks and deliverable products required for a trade study to reduce or eliminate the risk of inflight fires and heat damage in the #2 engine compartment as a result... Read more

FreeFlight Systems announces STC for ADS-B Out solution for S76

FreeFlight Systems announces STC for ADS-B Out solution for S76

17-Mar-2014Source: FreeFlight Systems

FreeFlight Systems announced today FAA Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) approval for a 1090ES ADS-B Out solution for all Sikorsky S-76A/B/C model helicopters. Developed with Peregrine Avionics and DAC International, the STC enables rapid and highly cost-effective installation of a fully rule-compliant ADS-B Out system in S-76 rotorcraft. Comprising a high-integrity GPS WAAS position source and... Read more

Erickson completes 2013 with turnover up 76%

Erickson completes 2013 with turnover up 76%

14-Mar-2014Source: Erickson

Erickson Air-Crane Incorporated (NASDAQ:EAC) (“Erickson,” the “Company,” “we,” “us” and “our”), a leading global provider of aviation services to a worldwide mix of commercial and government customers and the vertically integrated manufacturer and operator of the powerful, heavy-lift helicopter, the Erickson S-64 Aircrane, today announced fourth quarter and full year 2013 financial results and initiated... Read more

Construction begins on Bristow SAR facility at Inverness

Construction begins on Bristow SAR facility at Inverness

13-Mar-2014Source: Highland News

Construction work began on a ground breaking new search and rescue helicopter base at Inverness Airport on Wednesday.  See full story See also Balfour Beatty to build new UK SAR bases for Bristow... Read more

Northland Emergency Services Trust build their own S76 simulator

Northland Emergency Services Trust build their own S76 simulator

13-Mar-2014Source: NZ Herald

The state of the art machine, located at Whangarei airport, is made using the cockpit and fuselage of a Sikorsky S-76A helicopter and is powered by five computers.  See full story... Read more

Aviation Specialties Unlimited Obtains FAA and Transport Canada STC for S76B

Aviation Specialties Unlimited Obtains FAA and Transport Canada STC for S76B

13-Mar-2014Source: ASU

Aviation Specialties Unlimited Inc. (ASU) added a new Transport Canada and revised FAA STC to its growing list of STCs after successfully completing an NVIS Lighting System installation on a Sikorsky S76 B in Canada. “This is the fifth joint STC with the FAA and Transport Canada that we have obtained for NVG use on... Read more

Sikorsky receives 12th Maintenance Excellence Award from US Navy

Sikorsky receives 12th Maintenance Excellence Award from US Navy

13-Mar-2014Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today announced it has received the 2013 Maintenance Excellence Award from the Commander, Tactical Support Wing (CTSW) for support of the Composite Fighter Squadron VFC-111 based in Key West, Fla. The award marks the 12th that Sikorsky has received since the program’s start in 2001, and the second consecutive year the Key West... Read more

13-Mar-14 Sikorsky S92 Aberdeen, UK

13-Mar-14 Sikorsky S92 Aberdeen, UK

13-Mar-2014

Helicopter turned round on flight to ENSCO 100 offshore rig following a technical warning and made a successful precautionary landing back at Aberdeen... Read more

Base for Australian MH-60R fleet progresses at full speed

Base for Australian MH-60R fleet progresses at full speed

11-Mar-2014Source: South Coast Register

The new $138 million MH-60R Seahawk Romeo helicopter capability facilities at HMAS Albatross are starting to take shape.  See full story... Read more

Profile – Midwest Helicopter Airways

Profile – Midwest Helicopter Airways

11-Mar-2014Source: Sun Times

Since 1968, the family-owned business has been operating from its offices and hangar on Madison Street, just north of Joliet Road, the former site of the Hinsdale airport.  See full profile... Read more

Concurrent Technologies win $15M contract for MH-60S Airborne Mine Counter Measures work

Concurrent Technologies win $15M contract for MH-60S Airborne Mine Counter Measures work

10-Mar-2014Source: US DoD

Concurrent Technologies Corp., Johnstown, Pa., was awarded a $15,338,026 cost-plus-fixed fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide engineering services in support of the continued modification of the carriage, stream, tow and recovery system to incorporate airborne countermeasures capabilities.  The overall objectives of the carriage, stream, tow and recovery program are to design, fabricate, test and integrate a... Read more

Compensation unresolved over S76C+ crash into Korean apartment block

Compensation unresolved over S76C+ crash into Korean apartment block

10-Mar-2014Source: Korean Times

Residents of a Hyundai I-Park apartment complex in southern Seoul which a helicopter owned by LG Electronics crashed into last year have still not received financial compensation from the company, according to a tenants’ group  See full story... Read more

General Electric win $80M contract for CH/MH-53 engine repairs

General Electric win $80M contract for CH/MH-53 engine repairs

10-Mar-2014Source: US DoD

General Electric, Lynn Mass., was awarded a $79,737,730 firm-fixed-price contract for the repair of 20 T-64 engine (CH53D/E and MH53E helicopters) components, along with manufacturing, engineering, and technical support to the Fleet Readiness Center East, Cherry Point, N.C., with a goal of improving monthly output.  Work will be performed in Cherry Point, N.C. (80 percent),... Read more

Raytheon win $12M contract for MH-60 Multi-Spectral Targeting Systems

Raytheon win $12M contract for MH-60 Multi-Spectral Targeting Systems

10-Mar-2014Source: US DoD

Raytheon Co., McKinney, Texas, was awarded a $12,814,344 firm-fixed-price contract for 16 turret units and eight electronics units for the Multi-Spectral Targeting Systems for Navy MH-60 aircraft.  The system is an airborne, electro-optic, forward-looking infra-red, turreted sensor package that provides long-range surveillance, high altitude target acquisition, tracking, range-finding, and laser designation, and for the HELLFIRE... Read more

07-Mar-14 N761P Sikorsky S76C+ Bucyrus, US-Ohio

07-Mar-14 N761P Sikorsky S76C+ Bucyrus, US-Ohio

7-Mar-2014

Engine fire forced Cleveland Clinic helicopter to make emergency landing.... Read more

US Air Force to fund rescue helicopter in last-minute reversal

US Air Force to fund rescue helicopter in last-minute reversal

6-Mar-2014Source: Reuters

US Air Force decided on Tuesday to start work on a new rescue helicopter by sole-bidder Sikorsky in fiscal 2015, a surprising turnaround hours after the Pentagon told Congress the program to replace the HH-60 Pave Hawk had been postponed.  See full story... Read more

CAE to provide UH-60L/M Black Hawk simulator for Mexican Federal Police

CAE to provide UH-60L/M Black Hawk simulator for Mexican Federal Police

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

Lockheed Martin awarded $10M for MH-60R radar work

Lockheed Martin awarded $10M for MH-60R radar work

5-Mar-2014Source: US DoD

Lockheed Martin Corp. Owego, N.Y. is being awarded $10,630,597 for firm-fixed-price delivery order 7048 against a previously awarded firm-fixed-price long term contract (N00383-09-D-021F) for the repair of 13 items in support of the Multi-Mode Radar System, and the Electronic Measurement System for the H-60R Helicopter.  Work will be performed in Owego, N.Y., and work is... Read more

Erickson appoints VP of Global Aerial Operations

Erickson appoints VP of Global Aerial Operations

5-Mar-2014Source: Erickson

Erickson Air-Crane Incorporated (NASDAQ:EAC)(“Erickson” or “the Company”), a leading global provider of aviation services to a diverse mix of commercial and government customers, and the vertically-integrated manufacturer and operator of the powerful heavy-lift Erickson S-64 Aircrane helicopter, announced today that Brian Clegg has been named Vice President of Global Aerial Operations. In an anticipated move,... Read more

Sikorsky and Turkey sign Black Hawk licensing and manufacturing agreements

Sikorsky and Turkey sign Black Hawk licensing and manufacturing agreements

5-Mar-2014Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. UTX +0.71% , has signed agreements with the Turkish government and key Turkish aerospace contractors that license Turkey’s aerospace industry to manufacture 109 T-70 helicopters (Turkish variants of Sikorsky’s S-70i™ International BLACK HAWK helicopter) for operation by the Turkish Government, and to assemble 109 S-70i™ helicopters... Read more

Pratt & Whitney Canada signs FMP® Agreement with Bristow Helicopters

Pratt & Whitney Canada signs FMP® Agreement with Bristow Helicopters

3-Mar-2014Source: P&WC

Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) and Bristow Group, headquartered in Houston, Texas, have signed a long-term Fleet Management Program (FMP) agreement for the maintenance of PW210S engines installed on Bristow’s fleet of Sikorsky S-76D helicopters. Bristow Group is one of the leading providers of helicopter services for the worldwide offshore energy industry. P&WC’s FMP agreements... Read more

US Air Force mulls whether it can afford HH-60G Pave Hawk replacement

US Air Force mulls whether it can afford HH-60G Pave Hawk replacement

28-Feb-2014Source: Dallas Morning News

U.S. Air Force Secretary Debra James says she’s reviewing whether the service can afford a contract for combat-rescue helicopters that drew only one bid -= from Sikorsky  See full story... Read more

Sikorsky only committed to HQ in Connecticut for five years

Sikorsky only committed to HQ in Connecticut for five years

27-Feb-2014Source: Shelton Herald

The state of Connecticut and United Technologies have reached an agreement that represents a long-term commitment to Connecticut by the aerospace conglomerate, but only five years for Sikorsky.  See full story... Read more

Sikorsky’s Matrix™ Technology Program Launches Phase 2 of Flight Test Activities

Sikorsky’s Matrix™ Technology Program Launches Phase 2 of Flight Test Activities

26-Feb-2014Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft’s Matrix™ Technology autonomy research program has progressed to the second phase of flight test activities with the installation of advanced sensors that will allow the Sikorsky Autonomy Research Aircraft (SARA) to conduct real-time perception work. Sikorsky Aircraft is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX). SARA – an S-76® commercial helicopter outfitted with... Read more

Sikorsky Introduces S-92® Flight Calculator Application

Sikorsky Introduces S-92® Flight Calculator Application

26-Feb-2014Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today announced the launch of the company’s first iPad flight calculator application for Sikorsky’s commercial S-92® helicopter platform. Known as iFly Sikorsky™, the application replicates common performance calculations described in the S-92 Rotorcraft Flight Manual (RFM).  A similar application for the S-76™ aircraft fleet is currently in development. Sikorsky is a subsidiary... Read more

Summit Aviation named Customer Support Center for legacy S76 models

Summit Aviation named Customer Support Center for legacy S76 models

26-Feb-2014Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. announced today the signing of an agreement that names Summit Aviation Inc., a Greenwich AeroGroup company based in Middletown, Del., as an authorized Customer Support Center (CSC) for Sikorsky’s S-76® legacy helicopters. Summit Aviation will offer complete aftermarket support for scheduled maintenance and related services, including full maintenance management, inspections and spare-parts... Read more

Sikorsky S-92 to receive new Rockwell Collins display

Sikorsky S-92 to receive new Rockwell Collins display

26-Feb-2014Source: Rockwell Collins

The Sikorsky S-92® helicopter will feature new Rockwell Collins MFD-268P2B Multi-Function Displays enabling growth to capabilities that will enhance situational awareness and flight safety. The new displays will be standard cockpit equipment for new aircraft delivered beginning in 2014. “The new MFD-268P2B Multi-Function Display features the latest technology in advanced cockpit systems,” said Troy Brunk, vice... Read more

Third and Fourth Australian MH-60Rs Complete Production

Third and Fourth Australian MH-60Rs Complete Production

26-Feb-2014Source: Lockheed Martin

The third and fourth MH-60R “Romeo” helicopters take flight from the Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) facility in Owego, N.Y., to join the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) first pair of helicopters training at Jacksonville Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida. On Jan. 24, the U.S. Navy officially delivered two Romeos to the RAN, marking a significant milestone for the international... Read more

Milestone leases world’s first operational S-76D to National Helicopter Services

Milestone leases world’s first operational S-76D to National Helicopter Services

26-Feb-2014Source: Milestone Aviation Group

Milestone Aviation Group, the global leader in helicopter leasing, announced today at Helicopter Association International’s Heli-Expo that it has financed the delivery of a Sikorsky S-76D to Trinidad and Tobago’s National Helicopter Services Limited (NHSL). The NHSL, which is a joint venture between the Government of Trinidad and Tobago and The National Gas Company of... Read more

Honeywell Fleet Tracking System Certified For S-76, AW139, AS350

Honeywell Fleet Tracking System Certified For S-76, AW139, AS350

26-Feb-2014Source: Honeywell

Sky Connect Tracker III is the first system that enables simultaneous worldwide automated tracking, text messaging and voice capabilities to improve crew and passenger safety and increase aircraft availability. The all-in-one voice, text and tracking system from Honeywell Aerospace (NYSE: HON) has received FAA Supplemental Type Certificates for the Sikorsky S-76, AgustaWestland AW139 and Airbus AS350 rotorcraft platforms.... Read more

Milestone signs for another eight S92s

Milestone signs for another eight S92s

25-Feb-2014Source: Sikorsky

Milestone Aviation Group, the global leader in helicopter leasing, and Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation announced today at Helicopter Association International’s Heli-Expo that Milestone has increased its S-92 order book by eight units. Sikorsky is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX). Milestone is already one of the world’s largest S-92 owners and with today’s announcement, it has... Read more

Sikorsky recognizes AAR for outstanding S-92 service in Afghanistan

Sikorsky recognizes AAR for outstanding S-92 service in Afghanistan

25-Feb-2014Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. announced today that AAR Airlift’s S-92® program achieved record flying hours and reliability in 2013. Operating at a maintenance readiness rate exceeding 90 percent, AAR’s two S-92 aircraft achieved 3,800 combined block flight hours in the harsh Afghanistan environment, a 1,000-hour increase from 2012. Sikorsky Aircraft is a subsidiary of United Technologies... Read more

Sikorsky announces S-76D Entry Into Service program

Sikorsky announces S-76D Entry Into Service program

25-Feb-2014Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today announced its Entry Into Service program for the S-76D™ line of aircraft. The S-76D Entry into Service program includes customer training, service, support and focused customer communication, as well as the tracking of customer fleet analytics. “The S-76D aircraft is Sikorsky’s first new commercial product launch since 2004. We’re excited about... Read more

Exelis receives $34M contract for key CH-53K components

Exelis receives $34M contract for key CH-53K components

25-Feb-2014Source: Exelis

Exelis has been awarded a contract valued in excess of $34 million from Sikorsky to produce major structural airframe components for four production-representative CH-53K heavy lift helicopters . Designated as System Demonstration Test Articles (SDTA), the four aircraft will enable the U.S. Marine Corps to conduct operational evaluation of the new helicopter system beginning in 2017. Exelis will fabricate and... Read more

Macquarie Rotorcraft Leasing buys two S92s for Bond Offshore Helicopters

Macquarie Rotorcraft Leasing buys two S92s for Bond Offshore Helicopters

25-Feb-2014Source: Macquarie

Macquarie Rotorcraft Leasing, the helicopter leasing business of Macquarie Group (ASX: MQG; ADR: MQBKY), announced today its first purchase and lease back transaction for Bond Offshore Helicopters, a subsidiary of the Avincis Group (Avincis), for two new Sikorsky S-92 helicopters to be configured for offshore oil-and-gas crew change operations.  The two S-92 helicopters will be... Read more

Erickson Announces Corporate Rebranding

Erickson Announces Corporate Rebranding

25-Feb-2014Source: Erickson

Erickson Air-Crane Incorporated EAC -2.31% (“Erickson” or “the Company”), a leading global provider of aviation services to a diverse mix of commercial and government customers, and the vertically-integrated manufacturer and operator of the powerful heavy-lift Erickson S-64 Aircrane helicopter, announced today that the company will now do business under the brand name of “Erickson.” The company took this... Read more

Sikorsky Training Academy Graduates First Class of S-70i Pilots and Maintainers

Sikorsky Training Academy Graduates First Class of S-70i Pilots and Maintainers

24-Feb-2014Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today announced its first graduating class from the Sikorsky Training Academy (STA). A team of Brunei pilots and maintainers recently completed in-depth flight and maintenance training in Stuart, Fla. Sikorsky is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp.  “We have taken the concept of single-source training and created a new paradigm with the... Read more

FlightSafety to offer S92 simulator in Sao Paulo from third quarter

FlightSafety to offer S92 simulator in Sao Paulo from third quarter

24-Feb-2014Source: FlightSafety

FlightSafety International announces that it will offer training for the Sikorsky S-92 in São Paulo, Brazil. Training using a new Level D qualified full flight simulator is expected to begin in Q3 2014. “Offering training for the Sikorsky S-92 in São Paulo demonstrates our commitment to support Sikorsky and to provide Customers with the highest... Read more

HeliHub.com produces list of helicopters at Heli-Expo 2014

HeliHub.com produces list of helicopters at Heli-Expo 2014

23-Feb-2014Source: HeliHub.com

The HeliHub.com team have produced the following list of the helicopters at the Heli-Expo 2014 convention in Anaheim, California.  This is a “work in progress” story, which we will update regularly, so please check back if there is a detail here currently incomplete.  As news stories emerge relating to particular aircraft, we will annotate the story... Read more

23-Feb-14 EJC-2160 Sikorsky UH-60L Hondas, Colombia (4F)

23-Feb-14 EJC-2160 Sikorsky UH-60L Hondas, Colombia (4F)

23-Feb-2014

Accident killed Major Luis Fabián Carrero Llanos, Captain Jhonny Patiño Ballesteros, Sargeant Leonardo Polo Monje and Cadet Mauricio Gómez Vélez.... Read more

Bad Timing – Sikorsky lays off 600 as Heli-Expo opens

Bad Timing – Sikorsky lays off 600 as Heli-Expo opens

22-Feb-2014Source: Stratford Star

Sikorsky announced Friday a workforce reduction of “approximately 600 employees, mostly in Connecticut” due to “the challenging and unstable economic conditions that continue to affect our industry,” – See full story... Read more

Revue Thommen to supply searchlights to Sikorsky S92

Revue Thommen to supply searchlights to Sikorsky S92

22-Feb-2014Source: Revue Thommen

Revue Thommen, AG (THOMMEN) announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation for the design and supply of high-performance Helicopter Searchlight Systems (HSL1600 series) for use in Sikorsky’s S-92® helicopters. As a result of this agreement, THOMMEN will offer the latest airborne searchlight systems innovation in a single LRU,... Read more

MH-53E Sea Dragon – Troubled past, uncertain future

MH-53E Sea Dragon – Troubled past, uncertain future

22-Feb-2014Source: Virginian Pilot

The US Navy have reportedly decided to develop a replacement to the MH-53E rather than invest a significant amount of money to keep the helicopters flying – see full story... Read more

Engility awarded $40M contract for EW system modifications, including MH-60R

Engility awarded $40M contract for EW system modifications, including MH-60R

22-Feb-2014Source: US DoD

Engility Corp., Chantilly, Va., is being awarded a $39,969,545 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for electronic warfare (EW) weapons systems modifications for U.S. Navy and Australian EA-6B, EA-18G, E-2C, MH-60R, BAMS, P-8A aircraft, Unmanned Air Systems, flight simulators, training systems, other advanced electronic attack derivatives and initiatives. Services to be provided include systems engineering, in-service hardware and software... Read more

Turkish PM Erdogan says $3.5 Billion Sikorsky deal signed

Turkish PM Erdogan says $3.5 Billion Sikorsky deal signed

22-Feb-2014Source: Reuters

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday a deal had been signed with Sikorsky for a general purpose helicopter order worth $3.5 billion.  See full story... Read more

Summit Aviation recruits Regional Sales Manager from Sikorsky

Summit Aviation recruits Regional Sales Manager from Sikorsky

21-Feb-2014Source: Summit Aviation

Summit Aviation, a Greenwich AeroGroup company, announced today the hiring of Ken Pike as a Regional Sales Manager. Mr. Pike will be responsible for the development and execution of sales strategies for Summit’s aircraft sales and aftermarket services for both fixed wing and rotorcraft. Previously, Mr. Pike held the position of Regional Support Manager for North... Read more

Air Methods Awarded Multiple International Completion Contracts

Air Methods Awarded Multiple International Completion Contracts

20-Feb-2014Source: Air Methods

Air Methods Corporation (Nasdaq:AIRM), the global leader in air medical transportation, announced today that its United Rotorcraft Division has been awarded contracts totaling up to $5.5 million with the Ecuadorian Navy, AgustaWestland, and an unnamed customer in the Middle East to design, manufacture, certify and complete several airframes for a variety of missions. “United Rotorcraft... Read more

Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky sponsor Patriots’ Outpost at PGA Golf Tournament

Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky sponsor Patriots’ Outpost at PGA Golf Tournament

19-Feb-2014Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Pratt & Whitney, and United Technologies Corp. UTX +0.26%today announced their sponsorship of the Patriots’ Outpost at the PGA Tour Honda Classic Feb. 24 – March 2, 2014, at the PGA National Resort & Spa, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.  Pratt & Whitney and Sikorsky are operating units of United Technologies. The 7,000-square-foot Patriots’ Outpost and... Read more

Zoning approval gives green light for MYU Helicopters new heliport

Zoning approval gives green light for MYU Helicopters new heliport

18-Feb-2014Source: Nola.com

St Charles Parish Council voted yesterday 6-3 to approve a zoning change which paves the way for MYU Helicopters to build a new heliport at Luling, Louisiana See full story... Read more

US Army 1-228th Aviation Regiment gains deck-landing qualifications

US Army 1-228th Aviation Regiment gains deck-landing qualifications

16-Feb-2014Source: US Army

Flight crews from the 1-228th Aviation Regiment conducted deck landing qualifications on the USS Rentz off the coast of Honduras, Feb. 8-10. The training, which took place approximately 70 miles off the Honduran coast, was done to qualify 1-228th Aviation Regiment pilots and crew chiefs on shipboard operations. “This was a great and unique training... Read more

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