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The Hughes TH-55 Osage is a piston-powered light training helicopter produced for the United States Army.It was also produced as the Model 269 family of light utility helicopters, some of which were marketed as the Model 300.
The Schweizer S300 series (formerly Hughes 300, Schweizer 300, and Sikorsky S-300) family of light utility helicopters was originally produced by Hughes Helicopters, as a development of the Hughes 269. Later manufactured by Schweizer Aircraft, and currently produced by Schweizer RSG, the basic design has been in production for over 50 years ...
The Hughes Model 269 was known to the U.S. Army as the TH-55 Osage. In 1947, Howard Hughes redirected the Hughes Aircraft Company's efforts from airplanes to helicopters. . The effort began in earnest in 1948, when helicopter manufacturer Kellett Autogiro Corporation sold their latest design to Hughes for product
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Schweizer 300CB, which began as the Hughes Model 269 in the 1950s. The company began in 1947 as a unit of Hughes Aircraft, then was part of the Hughes Tool Company after 1955. [1] It became the helicopter division of Hughes' Summa Corporation in 1972, [2] and was finally reformed as Hughes Helicopters, Inc. in 1981. However, throughout its ...
The U.S. State Department approved a foreign military sale to Zambia of military helicopters and related logistics support for an estimated cost of $100 million, the Pentagon said in a statement ...
After Schweizer acquired the FAA Type Certificate, the helicopter was known for a short time as the Schweizer-Hughes 300C and then simply, the Schweizer 300C. The basic design remained unchanged over the years. Between Hughes and Schweizer, nearly 3,000 copies of the Model 269/300 have been built and flown over the last 50 years.
Rescuers on a boat work next to the wreckage of a Black Hawk helicopter at the site of the crash after it collided with the American Eagle flight 5342 outside Washington, D.C, Jan. 30, 2025.