In 1976, Hughes Aircraft rolled out a new product called the Defender - an export version of the US Army's OH-6 Cayuse. It quickly attracted orders from a variety of countries - including Iraq, Israel ...

Boeing nabs a quarter-billion-dollar Saudi helicopter contract -- and there could be more in store. Last week, Boeing took a big step toward reaching that goal when it landed a Pentagon contract to ...

Boeing chose to launch its new AH-6i at Dubai, predicting a market for some 300 of these helicopters, many of them in the Middle East. Fred Jernigan, Boeing’s AH-6 international capture team leader ...

March 3, 2020: Saudi Arabia is spending $646,000 each to have its 23 AH-6I armed scout helicopters upgraded to use smaller (70mm APKWS) laser-guided missiles. In addition, the helicopters are being ...

Boeing personnel test-fly Thailand's first AH-6i Little Bird. Thailand's acquisition of eight AH-6i Little Bird light attack helicopters will allow the service to replace its obsolete AH-1IF Cobra ...

MESA, Ariz., May 2 (UPI) -- The first production-standard AH-6i reconnaissance and light attack helicopter by Boeing has flown for the first time. Boeing said that during the recent flight, which ...

Korean Air in South Korea is building Boeing scout helicopter fuselages for an international customer. Korean Air announced on 26 June that it had recently delivered the first fuselage of an AH-6 ...

MESA, Ariz., Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Aerospace and defense corporation Boeing announced the successful first test flight of its AH-6i light attack and reconnaissance helicopter. Boeing said the AH-6i ...

Boeing has completed a flight demonstration of the AH-6i for the US Army, in anticipation of the service's Armed Aerial Scout (AAS) programme. The flight demonstration was conducted from the ...

The US State Department has approved the sale to Thailand of eight Boeing AH-6i light attack and reconnaissance rotorcraft, as well as associated weapons, equipment, and support. Thailand would use ...

AH-6i FLIES: On May 1, Boeing started test flying the first production AH-6i light-attack/reconnaissance helicopter as it prepares to begin deliveries to its launch ...

Boeing has flown its new light attack/reconnaissance helicopter for the first time in its production configuration. A prototype of the AH-6i was taken through preliminary tests in a flight lasting ...