{"id":3324,"date":"2019-02-12T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2024-02-24T18:55:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T15:55:47","slug":"new-turkish-gendarmerie-aviation-s-70i-black-hawks-handed-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=3324","title":{"rendered":"New Turkish Gendarmerie Aviation S-70i Black Hawks handed over"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Turkey\u2019s Jandarma Genel Komutanli?i (Gendarmerie General Command) has taken delivery of its first two S-70i Black Hawks. They were formally handed over during a December 5 ceremony attended by Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Mehmet Ersoy and the Jandarma\u2019s general commander, General Arif \u00c7etin.<\/strong><br><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"wp-image-3325\" style=\"width: 1200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2019-02-New-Turkish-Gendarmerie-Aviation-S-70i-Black-Hawks-handed-over.jpg\" alt=\"New Turkish Gendarmerie Aviation S-70i Black Hawks handed over\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2019-02-New-Turkish-Gendarmerie-Aviation-S-70i-Black-Hawks-handed-over.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2019-02-New-Turkish-Gendarmerie-Aviation-S-70i-Black-Hawks-handed-over-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2019-02-New-Turkish-Gendarmerie-Aviation-S-70i-Black-Hawks-handed-over-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br><em>Turkey\u2019s Jandarma Genel Komutanli?i (Gendarmerie General Command). (Photo by \u00a9XAirForces)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two new generalpurpose helicopters, built by Sikorsky subsidiary PZL Mielec in Poland, wear a distinctive, white, red and blue civilian-style colour scheme. One of the two is confirmed as J-3943 (c\/n 70-3943, ex SP-YVN), while the other is believed to be J-3904 (c\/n 70-3904, ex SP-YVM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Jandarma expects to take delivery of 30 T-70 BlackHawks, a Turkey-specific variant of the S-70i for which Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) is prime contractor, working in association with Sikorsky and other Turkish suppliers. The overall deal covers an order for 109 of the type (plus 12 options) for various branches of the Turkish armed forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new helicopters are to replace the Jandarma\u2019s older model S-70As, the first of which entered service in December 1988. Four S-70i Black Hawks are already in service in Turkey, having been delivered to the National Police in November 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Source:<\/strong> By Dave Allport \/ AirForces Monthly &#8211; February 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Photo: <\/strong>Turkey\u2019s Jandarma Genel Komutanli?i (Gendarmerie General Command). (Photo by \u00a9XAirForces)<br><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?cat=1698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">H\u00fcseyin T\u00fcfekci <\/a><\/strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/news.asp?newst=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">European \u00a9XAirForces News Editor<\/a> from Istanbul\/Turkey)<\/em><br><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/news_country.asp?id=266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Turkish Aviation News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s Jandarma Genel Komutanli?i (Gendarmerie General Command) has taken delivery of its first two S-70i Black Hawks. They were formally handed over during a December 5 ceremony attended by Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1670,36,19,1662,174,1727,1729,1698,7,31,3088,6,30,18],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3328,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions\/3328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}