Benton also notes there has been strong demand for the UH-60 from abroad in recent years, noting Sikorsky exceeded its order cap on the 10th multi-year Black Hawk contract currently in place.

Two years later, Sikorsky Aviation won the bid to supply utility helicopters for the U.S. Army, and the first production Black Hawk variant, the UH-60A, entered service in 1979.

Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has secured a potential $5.2 billion contract to build H-60 Black Hawk helicopters for the U.S. Army and foreign military sales customers.. The ...

Tough, versatile, and combat-proven — the UH-60 Black Hawk has been the U.S. Army’s go-to utility helicopter for over four decades. In an era of stealth aircraft and drones this Cold War-era ...