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Archival news of 2005

January 2005 Armed MH-60S Debuts UCAR Ends With No Flying AB139 Gains FAA Certification Bell Upgrades H-1 Upgrade Army Launches Apache Arrowhead Production Turkey Orders Head-of-State Sikorsky S-92

February 2005 Bell Plans Propulsive Anti-Torque System Tests Honeywell T5317BCV Engine Powers Bell 210 Honeywell To Provide New Turboshaft For Bell 407 Northrop Grumman Gets Army Fire Scout Order Honeywell Forecasts 2,400 New Civil Helicopters Through 2009 Army Plans Weapons Tests On Unmanned Little Bird S-76 Gets Honeywell HUMS United Arab Emirates Orders AB139s No Sikorsky VXX Protest Kiowa Warrior Tests Gatling Gun Eurocopter Recap Tiltrotor Squadron Resumes Flights Bell Introduces Model 429 GlobalRanger BAE SYSTEMS to Upgrade IR Jammers Navy Builds Presidential Helicopter Test Facility Keystone Markets Quiet Helicopter Interior Navy Selects EH101/US101 For The President Rockwell Collins and Boeing Evolve MUM Architecture

March 2005 Nick Lappos Joins Gulfstream Air Force Gets Third CV-22 Boeing Enhances Hummingbird and Dragonfly Bell Chooses Osprey Assembly Software MH-60R Systems Complete Navy Techeval High-Cabin NH90 French Army Gets First Tiger BA609 Ground Runs Convert Helicopter To Airplane Rockets Fired From Vigilante Helicopter UAV V-22 Cleared to Begin Operational Evaluation

April 2005 Bell Starts New UH-1Ys In 2006 Northrop Grumman Pulls NH90 from PRV Competition Hillary Defends US101 AFSOC Tests CV-22 Refueling Drogue Army Broadens ASTAMIDS Counter-Mine Program Sikorsky Opens Cyclone Office Coast Guard Plans Jayhawk Modernization Bell H-1 Upgrade Continues LRIP Pentagon Authorizes Sikorsky UH-60M LRIP Israel Gets First Boeing AH-64D-I

May 2005 HASC Votes to Delay Presidential VXX NYPD Adds Downlinked Sensors US DoD Wants More Rotorcraft Competition UK MoD Limits Helicopter Competition Australian Army Gets First Tiger with Hellfire Indian Helicopter Competition In Mountains Eurocopter Creates Spanish Plant Bell Flies Low-Cost Composite Stabilizer Sikorsky S-92 Wins Korea’s Presidential Competition

June 2005 Bush gives Westland lift Goodrich Technology Selected for U.S. Army Helicopter Laser Turkey to Buy 17 Sikorsky Naval Helicopters Sikorsky Building High-Speed Coaxial Helicopter Bell Returns BA609 to Test Flight Bell Flies First ARH Demonstrator IAI Recognized for Composite Stabilator on Black Hawk/Seahawk ADC Introduces Apache Alignment Fixture

July 2005 BA609 Tilt Rotor Makes Airplane Conversion Rolls Royce Makes Chinook Suppressor Greek NH90 Flies Fire Scout UAV Fires Rockets FIREMAX Flies First VH-71A Test Vehicle In The US First Block III Apache Longbow Contract Signed Telephonics Gets Contract for MH-92 Radar

August 2005 EADS North America Pitches UH-145 for LUH Hummingbird Demonstration Sikorsky Defines CH-53 HLR Boeing Turns Over First Kuwaiti AH-64D Sikorsky Gets UH-60M Fly-By-Wire Contract Air Methods Delivers Third FIREHAWK to L.A. County Fire Department Bell To Build Armed Recon Helicopters In Canada First New MH-60R To Begin Systems Integration Lockheed Martin Teams With MDHI For LUH

September 2005 Rockwell Collins Gets Cyclone Training Contract V-22 Goes To Full-Rate Production Eurocopter Approved For Mississippi Production First CV-22 Delivered AATD Awards Joint Heavy Lift Contracts Airborne Laser Mine Detector In Service Eurocopter Demonstrates Adaptive Rotor Flaps Link 16 For MH-60R and MH-60S Mono Tilt Rotor Design Underway

December 2005 United Protective Technologies LLC Boeing Delivers First Japanese AH-64DJP Agusta Westland Outfits US139 for LUH Competition Iraq to Receive Huey IIs First Italian Navy NH90 Flies PHI S-92 Logs 1,000 Hours Army Users Try Honeywell Micro Air Vehicles Pave Hawk Crews Win MacKay Trophy for Sandstorm Rescue Eurocopter Teams with China on EC175 Second Canard Rotor/Wing Hovers LUH Teams Prepare For January Flyoff Bell Readies Full-Size Eagle Eye for First Flight Fire Scout UAV Completes Critical Design Review Italian EH101 In Test At Patuxent River