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Aircraft Mfr's Number: 70571

Built by:
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
Modified Model*:
UH-60A
Effectivity:
0431
Lot Number:
06
Mfr. Date:
Jun. 1983
Aircraft Status:
active
Last Updated:
2024-07-21

* The model displayed above will either be the aircraft's birth or earliest modified model. To see the aircrafts modification history see the below Aircraft Historical Events.

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Aircraft Historical Events: Entry 1

Date Tail Number Model Country Operator
September 1983 82-23748 UH-60A Flag U.S. Army

In September 1983 the Aircraft was accepted into the Army Inventory. The Aircraft was used by USAAEFA to conduct Airworthiness and Flight Characteristics Evaluations of the UH-60A sixth year production lot. Testing was used to determine:

  1. The performance change caused by the infrared countermeasures set (AN/ALQ-144(V) and chaff dispenser M-130, and their external mounting brackets.
  2. Obtain sufficient Hover and level flight performance data to update existing data for inclusion in the operator’s manual.

In 1987 the Aircraft was under Ames' sponsorship at Edwards AFB, California and had conventional structural instrumentation installed on the blades for testing. Sikorsky Aircraft was contracted to build a set of highly instrumented blades for the Black Hawk test aircraft: a pressure blade with 242 absolute pressure transducers and a strain-gauge blade with an extensive suite of strain gauges and accelerometers.

On 22 September 1988 the Aircraft arrived at the Ames Research Center (ARC), at Moffett Airfield, California and integration of a data system for the highly instrumented blades was started. While the aircraft was still tail numbered 78-23012 NASA 748 was applied to the aircraft tail.

This Black Hawk was also used in a test program to develop and demonstrate a method for identifying system stability and flying qualities for sling-load operations.

Abbreviated Army Aircraft History:

From Date To Date Model Unit Name Location
1983-09-16 1988-08-15 UH-60A USAAEFA Edwards AFB, California
1988-08-16 1997-09-15 UH-60A Ames Research Center Moffett Airfield, California
1997-09-16 1999-02-15 UH-60A HQ, US Army Aviation and Missiles Command Redstone Arsenal, Alabama
1999-02-16 2000-03-15 UH-60A Unknown
2000-03-16 2003-01-15 UH-60A 12th Aviation Battalion Fort Belvoir, Virginia
2003-01-16 2003-12-15 UH-60A Corpus Christi Army Depot Corpus Christi, Texas
2003-12-16 2009-03-15 UH-60A 12th Aviation Battalion Fort Belvoir, Virginia

Aircraft Historical Events: Entry 2

Date Tail Number Model Country Operator
October 2017 82-23748 UH-60A Flag U.S. Army

In October 2017 the aircraft entered the U.S Army Black Hawk Exchange and Sales Transaction (BEST) Program.

Aircraft Historical Events: Entry 3

Date Tail Number Model Country Operator
25 October 2022 PNC-0626 UH-60A Flag National Police of Colombia

On 25 October 2022 the aircraft was delivered to the National Police of Colombia as tail number PNC-0626.