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Sikorsky Runs ITEP Engine On FARA Prototype, First Flight On Black Hawk Likely In Early ‘25

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Sikorsky Runs ITEP Engine On FARA Prototype, First Flight On Black Hawk Likely In Early ‘25
Sikorsky conducts a ground run of its Raider X FARA prototype with the new GE Aerospace T901 engine on April 10, 2024 at its West Palm Beach, Florida facility. Screenshot of Sikorsky video.

DENVER -- The Army recently ran the new GE Aerospace [GE] T901 next-gen helicopter engine on Sikorsky’s [LMT] Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) prototype, gathering data ahead of a planned first flight with the new engine on a UH-60 Black Hawk in early 2025. Brig. Gen. David Phillips, the Army’s program executive officer for aviation, told reporters further test T901 engines, developed under the Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP), will be delivered to Sikorsky in the coming months to begin…

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