MH-60R'S maiden flight

Naval Aviation News, Nov-Dec, 2001 by Wendy Leland

The MH-60R multimission helicopter completed its maiden flight on 19 July at Sikorsky Aircraft, Stratford, Conn. This was the first SH-60B to be remanufactured into the Romeo configuration. In August the help flew to NAS Patuxent River, Md., where developmental flight testing on two prototypes is being conducted.

Instrumentation was installed at Pax followed by installation of avionics and mission systems suites and a glass cockpit at Lockheed Martin Systems Integration in Owego, N.Y A total of nine remanufactured MH-60Rs will include four test articles and five low-rate initial production helos scheduled for delivery by 2003.