Textron Aviation receives U.S. Army contract for 3 Beechcraft King Air turboprops
Textron Aviation has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, AL, to provide Cessna SkyCourier, Cessna Grand Caravan EX,...
Successful first flight of enhanced AH-64E Apache helicopter Version 6.5
Boeing has successfully conducted the first flight of the enhanced AH-64E Apache Version 6.5 (V6.5), marking a significant milestone in the platform's modernisation efforts....
US Army suspends non-essential flights for 24 hours after the crash of four helicopters
After the crash of four helicopters leaving twelve dead in one month, the US Army decided on Friday to ground its aircraft for 24...
Three dead in the mid-air collision between two Apache helicopters in Alaska
Three US soldiers have been killed and one injured in a mid-air collision between two attack helicopters returning from a training exercise in Alaska,...
Crash of two U.S. Army HH60 Blackhawk helicopters in Kentucky leaves nine fatalities
On 29 March at 22:00 (local time), two U.S. Army HH60 Blackhawk helicopters crashed in Trigg County, Kentucky during a routine training mission. The...
Boeing to produce 184 Apache helicopters for U.S. Army & international customers
Boeing will build E-model AH-64s for the U.S. Army and international operators
Australia is the 18th nation to select Apaches as their attack...
U.S. Army Apache attack helicopters achieve 5 million flight hours
Five million hours equates to flying an AH-64 nonstop for more than 208,333 days
The Apache continues to prove its reliability and versatility...
Lockheed Martin Sikorsky and Boeing protest U.S. Army’s future long-range assault aircraft decision
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, filed a formal protest today asking the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review the U.S. Army’s decision on...
Pilot ejects from bouncing Lockheed-Martin F-35 fighter jet
A United States military pilot tried to land vertically (STOL - short take-off or landing) with his fighter jet in Texas, United States but...
[Pics] Boeing delivers 20th CH-47F Chinook to the Royal Netherlands Air Force
Boeing delivered the 20th CH-47F Chinook to the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF), concluding the country’s latest fleet update.
“Our continuing partnership with the Royal Netherlands...
U.S. Army orders additional enhanced CH-47F Block II Chinook helicopters
Modernisation continues with Block II technologies and enhanced design
Six CH-47F Block IIs now under contract with first slated for Fiscal Year 2024
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Sikorsky-Boeing selects Honeywell engine to power new DEFIANT X® assault helicopter
HTS7500 turboshaft engine offers U.S. Army transformational capability as part of Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft programme
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company, and Boeing today announced...
Airbus Helicopters UH-72 Lakota fleet surpasses one million flight hours with U.S. Army, Navy and National Guard units
The Airbus Helicopters UH-72 Lakota fleet has exceeded the 1 million flight-hour mark, some 15 years after the first Lakota UH-72A entered service for...
Airbus delivers first UH-72B Lakota helicopter to the U.S. Army National Guard
Airbus Helicopters, Inc. has delivered the first UH-72B, the latest variant of its Lakota helicopter, to the U.S. Army National Guard from its production...
Boeing delivers 2,500th AH-64 Apache helicopter
Boeing recently delivered its 2,500th AH-64 Apache helicopter, an E-model Apache for the U.S. Army, from the company’s production line in Mesa, Arizona.The first...
Boeing reveals its U.S. Army Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) design
Agile, purpose-built and designed for the Army’s evolving missionsBoeing is offering the U.S. Army an agile, fully integrated, purpose-built system for the Future Attack...
[WWII Commemorations] “75th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge” in Bastogne area (Belgium)
Authors Benoit Denet & Martin Gillet, reporting from Saint-Hubert.
This Friday, December 13th and this weekend December 14th and 15th, the operation Piper Cub...
[75th Anniversary Commemoration] “Piper Cub Ardennes honouring Belgian skies”
Authors Benoit Denet & Martin Gillet, reporting from Saint-Hubert.September, no doubt, was quite hectic with all celebrations taking place in Belgium in order to...
[75th Anniversary Commemoration] Inauguration of the Monument “L-Birds 1944-1945” in Sibret, in the presence of Mrs Helen Patton, granddaughter of General Patton.
Authors Benoit Denet & Martin Gillet, reporting from Sibret.
Further to the commemoration of the Battle of the Bulge taking place, the Project "Piper Cub...
U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command orders four MH-47G Chinook helicopters
Boeing receives a contract for four Special Operations ChinooksThese aircraft, for delivery in 2020, will be the first outfitted with Chinook Block II upgradesBoeing...