The NSW Rural Fire Service is spending millions retrofitting two choppers, but it won’t be able to use them for floods, bushfires and other disasters.

The commercial variant of the helicopter — the Sikorsky Black Hawk S-70 — which has a maximum gross weight (GW) of 22,000 lb, can achieve a maximum speed of 163 knots (302 km/hr or 187 mph).

Five soldiers are safe after an Army helicopter crashed in Honduras on Wednesday morning during a routine training mission, U.S. Southern Command confirmed.

A US Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Honduras, Central America, on March 5. According to the US Army, “Pilots flying a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter made a precautionary emergency landing approximately five miles east of Soto Cano Air Base at 9:34 a.

RICHARDSON, Alaska - Alaska Army National Guard aviators assigned to Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 211th General Support Aviation

AFPD Deputy Chief Jake Andersen emphasized that the proposed Blackhawk station would not interfere with another project already underway, known as the Single Engine Air Tanker (SEAT) program.

A U.S. Army helicopter crash landed in Honduras injuring four people onboard. The aircraft made the emergency landing in a forest near the Soto Cano Air Base in Comayagua City, at around 9:30 am on March 5.

A Sikorsky UH-60L "Black Hawk" helicopter belonging to the 1st Battalion of the 228th Aviation Regiment of the United States Army, attached to the Joint Task Force-Bravo (JTF-B), crashed on the morning of March 6 near Soto Cano Air Base in Honduras.