Lockheed & MD Helicopter Team Up for Light Utility Helicopter Bid

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MD-900 Explorer(click to view full) DID’s coverage of the USA’s recent $2.2 billion contract for 368 Armed Reconnaissance Helicopters (ARH) noted that MD Helicopters, Inc. (MDHI) had submitted a losing bid in conjunction with Boeing, but intended to bid on the upcoming Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) contract. Boeing’s multi-million February 2005 investment had helped keep MDHI solvent prior to its recent acquisition by Patriarch Partners LLC, and the MD-900 Explorer variant the company wished to offer used to be a McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) machine. Nevertheless, MDHI has now announced that its partner for the LUH bid will be Lockheed Martin Systems Integration in Owego, NY. Lockheed will in fact lead the team as prime contractor, overseeing aircraft assembly at MDHI’s production facility in Mesa, AZ, and providing training, simulation devices and contractor logistics support. The LUH is intended to replace Vietnam era UH-1H Hueys and OH-58A/C Kiowa aircraft in the U.S. Army and National Guard, though the US Marine Corps will continue to fly the modernized UH-1Y Huey and the DEA(Drug Enforcement Agency) is likely to retain many of its OH-58s. The LUH will fill the niche missions in which the Army’s standard UH-60 Black Hawk‘s size, capability, and […]

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