Aircraft
Cobham and Carson To Offer Sikorsky Helicopter Upgrades
Cobham and Carson To Offer Sikorsky Helicopter Upgrades
Cobham Group and Carson Helicopters have teamed on an avionics retrofit for Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters.
Cobham Group and Carson Helicopters have teamed on an avionics retrofit for Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters.

An avionics retrofit for Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters is being proposed as part of a new partnership between the multinational Cobham Group and Carson Helicopters of the U.S. Cobham has provided avionics to most aerospace majors, while Carson has specialized in airframe modifications to enhance the performance of S-61 helicopters.

Cobham Commercial Systems will provide large-format synthetic vision flight displays, together with new flight management, communications and navigation equipment. Cobham’s primary flight display is the only synthetic system certified for IFR helicopter operations, the company claims. Cobham also says that its new Helicopter Stability Augmentation System (HeliSAS) “brings added safety within the reach of operators for whom previous systems were too expensive and heavy.”