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Luig

Posted: Jan 27 2015, 09:49 AM

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First flight for new Australian military training helicopter 26 Jan 2015 Craig Hoyle

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"The Australian military’s first of an eventual 15 EC135 T2+ rotorcraft has made a 57min debut flight, just two months after the award of a Helicopter Aircraft Training System (HATS) deal to prime contractor Boeing Defence Australia.

Conducted from Airbus Helicopters’ Donauwörth site in Germany, the 16 January first flight “validated the full performance of the aircraft’s systems and engines”, the company says. Future testing of the twin-engined type will include testing of “specific customer equipment”, it adds.

Australia’s Department of Defence in October 2014 selected a Boeing/Thales team to deliver its HATS capability, which will provide instruction for army and navy aviation personnel using a new fleet of aircraft, plus flight simulators and a sea-going training vessel. A contract for the service was signed last November.

Student training activities should begin during 2016 and Airbus expects the system to achieve initial operating capability status two years later.

Once introduced, the contractor-provided EC135 T2+ fleet will replace Bell Helicopter 206s, operated by the army, and Airbus Helicopters AS350s, in use with the navy."

PHOTO: http://www.flightglobal.com/assets/getasse...px?itemid=59561

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/...icopter-408295/

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Luig	Posted: Mar 11 2016, 09:14 PM
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Luig	Posted: Mar 11 2016, 09:15 PM
FA-18F Super Hornet (A44) Group: ADF Serials Team Posts: 2,011 Member No.: 80 Joined: 8-March 06	http://3j8lrq31uyjk1yo9b01c7jub.wpengine.n...panTAILnavy.jpg This post has been edited by Luig on Mar 11 2016, 09:23 PM Attached Image

Luig	Posted: Mar 11 2016, 09:21 PM
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Luig	Posted: Nov 23 2016, 03:19 AM
FA-18F Super Hornet (A44) Group: ADF Serials Team Posts: 2,011 Member No.: 80 Joined: 8-March 06	Boeing signs off on final six H135 helicopters for Australia 22 Nov 2016 Dominic Perry “Australia has inched closer to receipt of its full complement of new training helicopters after prime contractor Boeing signed off on the final six examples. Assembled by Airbus Helicopters at its Donauwörth facility in southern Germany, all 15 H135s – manufactured to the older T2+ standard – have now achieved full factory acceptance in the two years since contract signature. Canberra selected the combined Airbus Helicopters, Boeing and Thales team in November 2014 to provide the airframes, flight simulators and synthetic training devices, as well as instruction for army and navy pilots under its Helicopter Aircrew Training System programme. Initial flying activities have begun using the H135s at NAS Nowra in New South Wales. The first of the Safran Helicopter Engines Arius 2B2-powered helicopters was delivered in July 2015.” https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/...s-for-a-431708/ Attached Image

Andy Marden	Posted: Jan 26 2017, 08:31 PM
Douglas Skyhawk (N13) Group: Members Posts: 98 Member No.: 246 Joined: 31-December 06	The missing Airbus test registrations are: N52-006 D-HECP N52-007 D-HCBA N52-008 D-HCBD N52-009 D-HECB N52-010 D-HECG N52-011 D-HECK N52-012 D-HECN N52-013 D-HECR N52-014 D-HECP N52-015 D-HECQ Andy

Luig	Posted: Apr 27 2017, 05:58 PM
FA-18F Super Hornet (A44) Group: ADF Serials Team Posts: 2,011 Member No.: 80 Joined: 8-March 06	Stories Various about RAN/Army Helos & HATS training to commence etc. in this AIR International May 2017 Vol.92 No.5 story attached PDF. Attached File ( Number of downloads: 223 ) OzHELOs_A_I_2017_05_prn.pdf

Luig	Posted: Apr 28 2017, 07:58 PM
FA-18F Super Hornet (A44) Group: ADF Serials Team Posts: 2,011 Member No.: 80 Joined: 8-March 06	"EC135T2+ N52-002/842 over Jervis Bay, New South Wales. The helicopter is one of 15 H135s being acquired for the joint Army-Navy Helicopter Aircrew Training System programme for the ADF’s Joint Helicopter School based at HMAS Albatross, near Nowra, New South Wales. Petty Officer Kelvin Hockey/Royal Australian Navy" Attached Image

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