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Heli-Expo 2016: Black Hawks set loose on civil market

29th February 2016 - 17:52 GMT | by Tony Skinner, Grant Turnbull in Louisville

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The presence of three civil configured UH-60 Black Hawks has added an extra dimension to this year's Heli-Expo, as companies prepare to start selling the ex-US Army aircraft on the commercial market.

One of those companies is BHI², which is displaying its 'H-60X' research and development aircraft it is using to help prove the applicability of the Black Hawk to missions such as SAR/medevac, parapublic, firefighting, pipe line inspection/construction, and forestry/agriculture.

BHI² director of experimental flight test, Alex Anduze, told Shephard the company had more than 40 UH-60As purchased from the US Army in the past year, which

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