MD Helicopters, Inc. (MDHI) announces two independent contract awards worth $43.9 million from Army Contracting Command-Redstone supporting the Afghan Air Force\u2019s MD 530F Cayuse Warrior light attack helicopters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first contract, a six-month extension worth $14.5 million, continues MDHI\u2019s longstanding efforts to provide program management, and contractor logistics support (CLS) services, material, and remote operations to support the Afghan fleet. Work will take place in Mesa, Arizona; Kabul, Afghanistan; and Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates. The contract was awarded on May 28, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The second contract, worth $29.4 million, modifies MDHI\u2019s original maintenance capabilities support contract. Under this six-month contract, MD Helicopters will provide continued maintenance, repairs, updates, and overhauls of the Afghan Air Force\u2019s MD 530F Cayuse Warrior helicopters in Mesa, Kabul, and Al-Ain. The contract was awarded on June 10, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The enhanced MD 530F Cayuse Warrior is a light armed attack helicopter respected for its power, safety, speed, agility, and unparalleled confined area capabilities. The aircraft supports a wide range of training and operational\u00a0missions, providing safe, efficient multi-mission support with an increased performance profile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MD Helicopters, Inc. (MDHI) announces two independent contract awards worth $43.9 million from Army Contracting Command-Redstone supporting the Afghan Air Force\u2019s MD 530F Cayuse Warrior light attack helicopters.<\/p>\n
The first contract, a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10172,4510,9316,89,5804,5637,13618,1836,5992,5670,2203,4957,3680,5676,13831,10674,5446,10169,10195,10171,868],"tags":[6628,6627,539,464,14469,5803,2861,350,2911,151,160,4450,6625,14467,4653,4512,4843,1400,2038,3590,14470,445,5450,1483,1001,4056,688,1371,9196,14468,1435,3103,2077,2948,5736,5808,2353,889,412,1557,4296,2169,14466,7155,8983,987,3104,9064,1691,2483,631,444,10626],"class_list":["post-10675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace","category-aerospace-news","category-air-force-news","category-aviation-news","category-avionics","category-business-news","category-communications-news","category-defense-news","category-economic-news","category-economy-news","category-finance-news","category-global-politics","category-helicopter-news","category-international-news","category-manufacturing-assembly-news","category-military","category-military-news","category-news","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news","tag-afghan","tag-afghanistan","tag-air","tag-aircraft","tag-al-ain","tag-allies","tag-arab","tag-arizona","tag-army","tag-attack","tag-aviation","tag-begin","tag-cayuse","tag-cls","tag-command","tag-communications","tag-contracting","tag-contractor","tag-contracts","tag-customer","tag-drawdown","tag-emirates","tag-extension","tag-fleet","tag-force","tag-forces","tag-government","tag-helicopters","tag-independent","tag-kabul","tag-light","tag-logistics","tag-management","tag-material","tag-md-530f","tag-mdhi","tag-mesa","tag-military","tag-news","tag-operations","tag-process","tag-program","tag-redstone","tag-remote","tag-secures","tag-services","tag-support","tag-supporting","tag-transport","tag-two","tag-u-s","tag-united","tag-warrior"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10677,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675\/revisions\/10677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}