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The Eurocopter (now Airbus Helicopters) UH-72 Lakota is a twin-engine helicopter with a single, four-bladed main rotor. The UH-72 is a militarized version of the Eurocopter EC145, built by American Eurocopter (now Airbus Helicopters, Inc.), a division of Airbus Group, Inc.
The UH-72A Lakota is a light utility helicopter specifically designed to meet the requirements of the US Army. The UH-72A Lakota helicopters were acquired to replace the UH-1H Iroquois and OH-58 A/C Kiowa helicopters.
The UH-72A/B Light Utility Helicopter is a Commercial/Non-Developmental-Item, twin engine helicopter with seating for two pilots that is capable of transporting up to six passengers.
Since 2006, the UH-72 Lakota has served as the US Army’s Light Utility Helicopter performing an evolving range of missions across a range of operational environments.
The UH-72A is an unarmed helicopter optimized for routine air operations, to include civil support, air transport, medical evacuation, and search and rescue, in a permissive, non-hostile...
Airbus Helicopters, Inc. has delivered the first UH-72B, the latest variant of its Lakota helicopter, to the U.S. Army National Guard from its production facility in Columbus, Mississippi.
The Airbus Helicopters UH-72 Lakota fleet has exceeded the one million flight-hour mark, some 15 years after the first Lakota UH-72A entered service for the U.S.
The UH-72A Lakota is the U.S. Army’s choice for its new Light Utility Helicopter. Fulfilling the service’s requirements for speed, range, endurance and overall performance, the FAA IFR certified UH-72A combines operational capability, reliability, and affordability in a flexible and proven platform to meet the LUH mission’s demanding ...
The Airbus (ex Eurocopter) UH-72 Lakota helicopter fleet surpasses 1,000,000 flight hours with the US Army, Navy and National Guard in 15 years of service. The Lakota is a licensed built variant of the European EC145 (now H145) manufactured in Columbus, Mississippi and operated by homeland-based units rather than the more expensive Black Hawk.
Lakotas are built at the American Eurocopter facility in Columbus, Mississippi. From 2009 the Lakota is also the prime training aircraft at the US Navy Test Pilot School (NTPS) helicopter course. The AAS-72X was the proposed contender for the US Army Armed Aerial Scout (AAS) competition.