{"id":11403,"date":"2022-01-02T23:18:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T05:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=11403"},"modified":"2022-01-02T23:30:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T05:30:28","slug":"u-s-department-of-defense-exercises-options-for-36-th-73a-helicopters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=11403","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Department of Defense Exercises Options for 36 TH-73A Helicopters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Leonardo welcomed the announcement by the U.S. Department of Defense to award AgustaWestland Philadelphia Corp. a $159.4 million USD firm-fixed price modification to the previously awarded contract for the U.S. Navy\u2019s Advanced Helicopter Training System. This modification exercises options for the production and delivery of 36 TH-73A helicopters Lot III and initial spares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January 2020 Leonardo, through AgustaWestland Philadelphia Corp., was awarded a firm-fixed-price contract valued at $176 million for the production and delivery of an initial 32 TH-73A helicopters, along with spares, support, dedicated equipment, and specific pilot and maintenance training services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In November 2020, the second lot of aircraft were ordered through a $171 million contract modification, an additional 36. The lot III brings the total number of aircraft on order to 104. The total requirement is for 130 aircraft. The TH-73A will be used to train the next generation of student aviators from the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard and is only made at Leonardo\u2019s FAA-certified Part 21 Production Line in Philadelphia, PA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click the link below to watch the video!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/leonardo.canto.global\/s\/KA76E?viewIndex=0&amp;column=video&amp;id=9r87ussssd53td82qke7v2t90d\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/leonardo.canto.global\/s\/KA76E?viewIndex=0&amp;column=video&amp;id=9r87ussssd53td82qke7v2t90d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonardo welcomes the announcement made by the U.S. Department of Defense to award AgustaWestland Philadelphia Corp. a $159.4 million USD firm-fixed price modification to the previously awarded contract for the U.S. Navy\u2019s Advanced Helicopter Training System. This modification exercises options for the production and delivery of 36 TH-73A helicopters Lot III and initial spares.<\/p>\n<p>Click the image above to read the full story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10172,4510,89,5804,5637,13618,8222,1836,5992,5670,2203,4957,3680,5676,13831,10674,10169,13469,10195,10171,868],"tags":[1649,2593,3901,167,5158,15039,464,3962,160,7122,3963,3310,988,4762,3998,4512,430,1780,784,8768,1268,1782,1635,1724,1837,4872,177,1269,4462,3999,149,1371,4081,3599,4278,1795,1901,6221,2510,2443,2609,1981,412,5076,5291,995,15040,2048,4812,940,8089,1570,515,5224,987,6630,9403,13870,1177,15037,1970,1691,1658,631,8047,15038],"class_list":["post-11403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace","category-aerospace-news","category-aviation-news","category-avionics","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-news","category-pilot","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news","tag-1649","tag-advanced","tag-aeronautical","tag-aerospace","tag-agusta","tag-agustawestland","tag-aircraft","tag-announcement","tag-aviation","tag-aviators","tag-award","tag-awarded","tag-business","tag-certified","tag-coast","tag-communications","tag-contract","tag-corp","tag-corporation","tag-dedicated","tag-defense","tag-delivery","tag-department","tag-dod","tag-equipment","tag-exercises","tag-faa","tag-firm","tag-fixed","tag-guard","tag-helicopter","tag-helicopters","tag-iii","tag-initial","tag-leonardo","tag-line","tag-lot","tag-made","tag-maintenance","tag-marine","tag-modification","tag-navy","tag-news","tag-november","tag-option","tag-order","tag-part-21","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-pilot","tag-previously","tag-price","tag-production","tag-requirement","tag-services","tag-spares","tag-specific","tag-student","tag-system","tag-th-73a","tag-training","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-u-s","tag-welcomes","tag-westland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403","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=11403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11405,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions\/11405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}