{"id":9745,"date":"2021-02-10T19:06:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T01:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=9745"},"modified":"2021-02-10T19:08:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T01:08:41","slug":"sikorsky-continues-legacy-with-latest-contract-to-build-presidential-helicopters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=9745","title":{"rendered":"Sikorsky Continues Legacy With Latest Contract to Build Presidential Helicopters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

STRATFORD, Conn. Feb. 10<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Continuing its 63-year legacy of providing safe and reliable transportation for the president of the United States, Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT<\/a>), is under contract to manufacture a total of 23 VH-92A\u00ae Presidential Helicopters for the U.S. Marine Corps. Sikorsky is on schedule to deliver the next generation presidential helicopter later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The award announced February 5, 2021 by the U.S. Navy for five aircraft is the final lot of VH-92A presidential helicopters set to deliver in 2023. \u00a0Sikorsky\u2019s highly skilled workforce is completing final modifications on 12 of the production aircraft at its manufacturing facility in Stratford, Connecticut and Owego, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The VH-92A will transport the president and vice president of the United States and other officials. Sikorsky brings unmatched experience and a proven track record to this mission having flown every U.S. commander-in-chief since President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The VH-92A, also called a \u201cWhite Top\u201d due to its notable white and green livery, will continue this legacy for decades to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The VH-92A program ensures long-term affordability and maintainability by utilizing the FAA certified\u00a0Sikorsky S-92 aircraft\u00a0which has industry leading reliability and availability. The S-92 aircraft is modified for the VH-92A mission based on government-defined requirements. The S-92 fleet surpassed 1.7 million flight hours in 2020 and averages 14,400 hours of safe flight per month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

STRATFORD, Conn. Feb. 10 \u2013 Continuing its 63-year legacy of providing safe and reliable transportation for the president of the United States, Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT), is under contract to manufacture a total of 23 VH-92A\u00ae Presidential Helicopters for the U.S. Marine Corps. Sikorsky is on schedule to deliver the next generation presidential helicopter later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10172,9316,89,5637,1836,5992,5670,2203,4957,3680,5676,13156,10674,5446,10169,8946,10176,1397,10195,10171,868,1103],"tags":[464,160,3798,4762,655,4765,430,2444,6848,2559,5170,5171,177,2665,1182,688,1371,928,2436,78,3607,1248,2443,1100,938,1981,718,412,1181,1401,13678,639,374,515,5510,3657,5172,4842,4256,145,3076,4764,3378,1691,1658,631,444,5165,5167,1162],"class_list":["post-9745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace","category-air-force-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-defense-news","category-economic-news","category-economy-news","category-finance-news","category-global-politics","category-helicopter-news","category-international-news","category-maritime","category-military","category-military-news","category-news","category-private-aircraft-news","category-stock-news-2","category-stock-news","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-aircraft","tag-aviation","tag-build","tag-certified","tag-company","tag-connecticut","tag-contract","tag-corps","tag-defined","tag-deliver","tag-dwight","tag-eisenhower","tag-faa","tag-facility","tag-generation","tag-government","tag-helicopters","tag-legacy","tag-lmt","tag-lockheed","tag-manufacture","tag-manufacturing","tag-marine","tag-martin","tag-mission","tag-navy","tag-new","tag-news","tag-next","tag-nyse","tag-owego","tag-president","tag-presidential","tag-production","tag-reliable","tag-requirements","tag-s-92","tag-safe","tag-schedule","tag-sikorsky","tag-states","tag-stratford","tag-top","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-u-s","tag-united","tag-vh-92a","tag-white","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745","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=9745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9747,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745\/revisions\/9747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}