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January 2006
February 2006 28th - Honeywell Updates Chinook Cockpit 28th - Bell Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter now ARH-70 28th - Honeywell Outlook Sees Civil Helicopter Sales Grow 15% in Five Years 16th - BAE Chosen for UH-60M Fly-By-Wire Feedback Actuators 16th - CAAS Cockpit Gets First Airworthiness Release 16th - Marines Graduate First Operational MV-22 Crew Chiefs 16th - Sikorsky Delivers 600th S-76 16th - BAE Continues Ducted Fan Development
March 2006 14th - Sikorsky Reveals Thales Cockpit for S-76D 14th - Japan Maritime Self Defense Force Gets First EH10114th - E&S Selected for Tiger Helicopter Simulator14th - Sky Connect Sells More Gulf Coast Helicopter Trackers14th - Telephonics ICS Chosen for Army ARH14th - Armed MH-60S Simulator “Flies” Networked Combat14th - Mil Mi-28N Attack Helicopter Nears Production3rd - Air force Accepts first Combat-Configured CV-22 3rd - Sky Connect Sells Tracking Systems to Era Helicopters 2nd - CRI Plans Quiet Flight Tests 2nd - Bell UH-1Y And AH-1Z Finish Developmental Testing
April 2006 21st - Sikorsky Recruiting More Engineers 21st - AMUST-D Apache Demonstrates UAV Control 21st - SH-60R Enters Full Rate Production 21st - Northrop Grumman Opens UAV Plant 21st - Iridium Network Tracks Helicopters 21st - Korean Helicopter Program Approved 21st - EASA Grants S-92 Icing Approval 11th - Bell ARH-70A Tests Mission Equipment Package 11th - Army Plans More New-Build AH-64Ds 11th - Lockheed Martin Tests APKWS Warhead 11th - Sikorsky Gets CH-53K Contract
May 2006 Boeing Plans Uninhabited Little Bird Flight Sikorsky To Test New Infrared Suppression System Manned-Unmanned System Demonstration Successful Kaman Proposes Unmanned Maritime Helicopter AgustaWestland Picks BAE Systems for Fly-by-Wire Merlin Kaman Studies Composite Little Bird Blade Bell AH-1Z and UH-1Y Start OPEVAL Thermobaric Hellfire Missile Successful Bell Helicopter Selects AFS Filter for Model 429 Honeywell to Develop Backpack UAV for FCS
June 2006 Boeing Rolls Out First Production CH-47F Boeing Studies V-22 Developments Singapore Inaugurates Apache Longbow Squadron Marine CH-46s Get Lightweight Seats and Armor Sikorsky Plans Hawk Works in Upstate New York Erosion Coating Extends Engine Life In CH-53E and CH-46E China Possible Second Source for Sikorsky S-76 Airframe Australia Orders More NH90s Korea Launches New Helicopter Development Britain Locks On New Lynx Turkish Competition Delayed
July 2006 Army Looks To Counter Small Arms, RPGs New Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter Flies Bell Team Proposes Fancraft For City Combat US Army Buys European LUH Unmanned Little Bird Flies Unmanned
August 2006 Canada Defining New Chinook Configuration Sikorsky Cleared to Export UH-60M CAE to build AW139 Simulator CAE to Build MH-60R and SH-60B Simulators
September 2006
October 2006 Army Considers All-Round Vision Technology Boeing Flies Production CH-47E Sikorsky S-92 Flies With Advanced SAR Flight Controls Army Adds Radar to Brownout Landing Aid Army Puts Delta-Model T700s on Early Black Hawk Boeing Flies Optionally Manned A/MH-6X Japanese Coast Guard Picks AgustaWestland AW139 for Maritime SAR Knight Hawk Flight Tests Advanced Exhaust System
November 2006 Ducted Fan UAV Flies with Heavy Fuel Engine Composite Blades Fly On British Sea King Air Force Rescue Helicopter Swells Chinook Plans Boeing Offers Optionally Manned Test Asset
December 2006 Bell Readies First Model 429 For Ground Runs SHARCS Rotor Starts Testing AFRL Evaluates Rescue Helicopter Downwash Unmanned Helicopters Collaborate US Army Receives First European LUH German Army Gets First NH90 Four-Bladed Fire Scout Flies
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