UH-72A Fleet plus 1 Million Flight hours
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UH-72A Fleet plus 1 Million Flight hours
Across the US Army, Army National Guard and US Navy (Naval Test Pilots School) Airbus UH-72A Lakota has surpassed 1 million Flight hours.
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Over the last decade Ive had pleasure of seeing the Lakota be it aggressor OPFOR based at Hohenfels AAF (Ravens / Falcons) at ILA Berlin 2014 to USNTPS at AIr & Space Expo 2019 at Joint Base Andrews along with VA and MDArmy National Guard
[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2021/10/Airbus-Helicopters-UH-72-Lakota-fleet-surpasses-one-million-flight-hours.html
Over the last decade Ive had pleasure of seeing the Lakota be it aggressor OPFOR based at Hohenfels AAF (Ravens / Falcons) at ILA Berlin 2014 to USNTPS at AIr & Space Expo 2019 at Joint Base Andrews along with VA and MDArmy National Guard
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UH-72A vs TH-73A
I have never worked on the UH-72 but everyone in my organization that does says the same things about the maintenance on the aircraft being fairly intense. (The fleet is ~180 aircraft used for primary helicopter training) Of course, if the Army had purchased a more modern variant(FADEC vs VARTOMS is one that sticks out) and contracted the logistics of parts supply differently a lot of these issues would have been taken care of, just looking from the outside.
I notice the US Navy did some things differently for their training Helicopter, the TH-73. They got a FADEC equipped, single engine helicopter with a glass cockpit for around half the price of the UH-72A.
So, those that have experience, which platform do you think is better for what the services are using them for: UH-72A(EC145) or TH-73A(AW119)?
Just curious.
I notice the US Navy did some things differently for their training Helicopter, the TH-73. They got a FADEC equipped, single engine helicopter with a glass cockpit for around half the price of the UH-72A.
So, those that have experience, which platform do you think is better for what the services are using them for: UH-72A(EC145) or TH-73A(AW119)?
Just curious.
Apparently the ANG have received the first of the "B" back in September?
At least some parts might be in common but maybe not that much!
At least some parts might be in common but maybe not that much!
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That’s where the parts are coming from. But BK stands for Bölkow Kawasaki…. The range of helicopters is designed by the two of them and even on the latest model I think Kawasaki delivers the entire fuselage and main gearbox.