UH-72A in Focus: Navy Taps Airbus for $39.8M Test Fleet Support Deal

Airbus Helicopters Inc., Grand Prairie, Texas, is awarded a $39,834,430 firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide performance based logistic support services required to support five Navy UH-72A helicopters owned by the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in Patuxent River, Maryland. This effort shall include all maintenance support services and equipment including sustaining engineering. Work will be performed in Patuxent River, Maryland, and is expected to be completed in July 2030. Fiscal 2025 operation and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $20,952,910; fiscal 2025 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $8,365,230; and fiscal 2025 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $10,516,289, will be obligated at the time of award, $20,952,91 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competed. Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N0042125D0051).