{"id":11024,"date":"2021-09-07T21:34:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T02:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=11024"},"modified":"2021-09-07T21:46:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T02:46:00","slug":"airbus-delivers-first-uh-72b-lakota-helicopter-to-u-s-army-national-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=11024","title":{"rendered":"Airbus Delivers First UH-72B Lakota Helicopter to U.S. Army National Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Columbus, Mississippi, 07 September&nbsp;2021<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 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. This delivery is the first of 18 UH-72B Lakota helicopters currently on order to support the National Guard\u2019s critical missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UH-72B is the latest iteration of the proven commercial, off-the-shelf aircraft that has been the Army\u2019s Light Utility Helicopter since the first Lakota contract award in 2006. The Army is leveraging the benefits of a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) program by receiving product improvements and enhancements through the evolution of the aircraft, without investing any government money into the development of those capabilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the widely successful H145, the UH-72B incorporates technologies that increase both safety and flight performance, including the five-bladed main rotor, the Fenestron shrouded tail rotor, Safran Arriel 2E engines, and the Airbus-designed Helionix avionics suite. The Helionix suite includes an advanced dual-duplex, four-axis autopilot to provide flight envelope and over-limit protection, automated takeoff, and fully-coupled approaches to hover.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With nearly 10 different configurations available,\u00a0the Lakota delivers\u00a0proven performance, outstanding operational reliability, and unmatched versatility for a broad spectrum of military missions. Airbus Helicopters, Inc. builds the Lakota at its production facility in Columbus, Mississippi, which employs a workforce of nearly 250 employees that is made up of 40% U.S. veterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbus, Mississippi, 07 September\u00a02021\u00a0\u2013 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. This delivery is the first of 18 UH-72B Lakota helicopters currently on order to support the National Guard\u2019s critical missions.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the picture above to read the full story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10172,4510,798,89,5637,13618,8222,1836,5992,5670,2203,4957,3680,5676,13831,10674,5446,10169,13469,10176,1397,10195,10171,868],"tags":[7198,14732,167,47,464,2911,3690,5379,3693,160,1917,1166,3798,988,3092,1563,4512,14729,3217,4464,828,2665,14730,3683,1483,660,688,3999,3124,149,3692,13397,5453,1435,3188,4934,3084,3913,843,412,995,2515,515,2169,2913,2120,712,5123,14731,101,1424,3104,1034,3117,1691,1658,631,14728,3027,3588,3950],"class_list":["post-11024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace","category-aerospace-news","category-airbus-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-communications-news","category-consumer-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-pilot","category-stock-news-2","category-stock-news","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news","tag-7198","tag-2e-engines","tag-aerospace","tag-airbus","tag-aircraft","tag-army","tag-arriel","tag-automated","tag-autopilot","tag-aviation","tag-avionics","tag-blade","tag-build","tag-business","tag-columbus","tag-commercial","tag-communications","tag-cots","tag-critical","tag-delivers","tag-engines","tag-facility","tag-fenestron","tag-five","tag-fleet","tag-flight","tag-government","tag-guard","tag-h145","tag-helicopter","tag-helionix","tag-lakota","tag-latest","tag-light","tag-main","tag-missions","tag-mississippi","tag-money","tag-national","tag-news","tag-order","tag-performance","tag-production","tag-program","tag-rotor","tag-safety","tag-safran","tag-september","tag-shrouded","tag-stock","tag-suite","tag-support","tag-tail","tag-takeoff","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-u-s","tag-uh-72b","tag-utility","tag-variant","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11024","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=11024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11026,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11024\/revisions\/11026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}