Türkiye delivers first home-grown helicopter to gendarmerie forces

The first T70 Helicopter, produced under the Utility Helicopter Program, was put into use by the Turkish Gendarmerie General Command.

The deliveries of the T70 Utility Helicopter, produced under the subcontractors of Turkish Aerospace Industries, ASELSAN, TEI, Alp Aviation and Sikorsky, have started, Anadolu reports.

Within the scope of the program, the T70 Utility Helicopter, which was developed based on the Sikorsky company’s S70i Helicopter, will be delivered to different users with a licensed production model in Türkiye. Land Forces Command, Air Force Command, Special Forces Command, Gendarmerie General Command, General Directorate of Security and General Directorate of Forestry are planned to be users of the helicopter.

Within the scope of the T70 Utility Helicopter Program, Turkish Aerospace Industries delivered the first T70 Helicopter, for which it completed the domestic avionics systems, transmission, landing gear, dynamic parts and final assembly and qualification tests, to the Gendarmerie General Command.

In the program, Turkish Aerospace Industries carries out the production, final assembly processes, tests and integrated logistics support of all main parts of T70 helicopters such as cabin, cockpit, tail cone, horizontal and vertical tail, main and tail rotor blades. ASELSAN undertakes the development of basic avionics systems, TEI manufactures the T700 engine that powers the helicopter, Alp Aviation undertakes the production and assembly of landing gear, gearbox detail parts and dynamic parts.