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Airbus Awash In New Lakota, EC-145e Orders
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A flood of orders in recent weeks for military UH-72A Lakotas
and civil EC-145es assures that Airbus Helicopters’ production line for those
medium twins in Columbus, Mississippi, will remain open through at least
2023. Aggregate orders announced over the last 30 days amount to 76 aircraft:
51 UH-72As and 25 EC-145es. These aircraft use the same airframe with the
former being used by the U.S. Army for primary training, National Guard, and
homeland security missions and the latter mainly by civil EMS and utility
operators.
Airbus and Metro Aviation
announced an order for 25 EC145es on February 27. Deliveries have already
begun and are scheduled to continue over the next four years. Airbus's
standard VFR avionics package for the EC145e features a glass cockpit with
the Garmin G500H and GTN 650 GPS and communication system. Metro is
developing an STC for a lightweight IFR package that it will install
into its EC145es at its Shreveport, Louisiana completions facility. IFR
certification is expected this year.
On March 8, Airbus announced it
had received an order for 35 UH-72A Lakotas from the Army valued at $273
million. This procurement is divided into two configurations: 17 UH-72A
Lakotas for the flight training Initial Entry Rotary Wing mission at Fort
Rucker, Alabama, and 18 UH-72A Lakotas for the observer/controller mission at
the Army’s Combat Training Centers. Two weeks later Airbus announced that it
had received a second contract valued at $116.9 million for an additional 16
UH-72As to support the mission at Fort Rucker, the Army’s primary rotary wing
flight training center.
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onsdag 28. mars 2018
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