A lot of news is coming from Bell Helicopter during the Paris
Air Show, beginning with the announcement that it has been awarded
Phase 1.5 of a two-phase Joint Performance Based Logistics (PBL)
contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to support the V-22
Osprey tiltrotor aircraft for the Marine Corps (MV-22), and Air
Force Special Operations Command (CV-22).
Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) and its predecessor
companies have a proud heritage of trainer aircraft history,
delivering military training aircraft to governments around the
world since the 1930s. HBC recently achieved milestones when the
T-6 reached one million flight hours and in the delivery of the
500th T-6 airplane...
Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopters flown by the U.S. Army in the
Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of war have accumulated more than
900,000 flight hours without a single material failure with the
aircraft and are expected to break the 1 million fleet flight hour
mark this fall, Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. reported from the Paris Air
Show.
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