AHI beefs up global talk for Lakota

Airbus is beefing up international marketing, and seeking orders, for its UH-72A Lakota helicopter, and production facility at Columbus, Miss. Airbus Helicopters Inc. has been building the “helos” for the Army for nearly a decade, but those orders are scheduled to end in 2019. Without 15-to-20 new production orders annually, the Columbus plant could run out of business. There is some down-the-road speculation that AHI may pitch a military variant of its H145 commercial helicopter as a future replacement for the UH-72A Lakota. (Source: National Defense 04/13/16)