Turkey Signs Up For Sikorsky Black Hawk
TAI will assemble more than 100 T-70 Black Hawks for Turkish agencies under the TUHP program. The company has already performed avionics update work for Turkey’s existing S-70 fleet. (Photo: TAI)
TAI will assemble more than 100 T-70 Black Hawks for Turkish agencies under the TUHP program. The company has already performed avionics update work for Turkey’s existing S-70 fleet. (Photo: TAI)

Last Friday Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced that his government had signed a $3.5 billion contract with Sikorsky for the co-production of 109 T-70 utility transport helicopters, based on the Sikorsky S-70i International Black Hawk. The announcement comes nearly three years after Turkey had declared the T-70 as its preferred choice for the TUHP (Turkey utility helicopter program) requirement, and some seven months after it had been revealed that there were to be delays in finally putting pen to paper.

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