{"id":936,"date":"2016-03-22T00:09:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T22:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=936"},"modified":"2016-03-22T00:09:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T22:09:55","slug":"lebanon-and-kenya-to-receive-bell-huey-iis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=936","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon and Kenya to receive Bell Huey IIs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lebanon and Kenya will become the latest nations to procure zero-timed Bell UH-1H-based Huey II helicopters through the US Army.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_937\" style=\"width: 291px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Lebanese-Air-Force-UH-1H-Huey_March-2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-937\" class=\"wp-image-937\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Lebanese-Air-Force-UH-1H-Huey_March-2016-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lebanese Air Force UH-1H Huey \" width=\"281\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lebanese Air Force Bell 205 Iroquois \/ UH-1H Huey (Photo by xairforces.net)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last week, Bell Helicopter of Fort Worth, Texas received $19 million from the Pentagon to furnish three Huey IIs for the government of Lebanon by March 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The same week, the army\u2019s non-standard rotary wing aircraft office began seeking potential sources to produce another five Huey IIs for the Republic of Kenya. The type is a remanufactured version of the single-Lycoming-engine UH-1H manufactured in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>The sources-sought notice for Kenya opens the door for potential Huey vendors to submit a statement of capability, but notes that the original equipment manufacturer is Bell \u201cand data required may be proprietary\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Bell\u2019s Huey II modernization programme rebuilds old aircraft with commercial Bell 212 dynamic components and the Honeywell T53-703 powerplant.<\/p>\n<p>In another contract announcement, Boeing has received $866 million from the army to rebuild 27 CH-47 heavy-lift helicopters into the F-model standard through the Chinook \u201crenew\u201d programme. The contract, announced 15 March, includes 12 new CH-47Fs.<\/p>\n<p>The rebuilt aircraft are delivered off the same production line in Ridley Township, Pennsylvania as the new-build aircraft. Boeing is expected to complete the order, valued up to $897 million, by December 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source:<\/em><\/strong><em> Washington DC &#8211; By James Drew &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/news\/articles\/lebanon-and-kenya-to-receive-bell-huey-iis-423370\/\" target=\"_blank\">flightglobal.com<\/a> &#8211; 21 March, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon and Kenya will become the latest nations to procure zero-timed Bell UH-1H-based Huey II helicopters through the US Army. Last week, Bell Helicopter of Fort Worth, Texas received $19 million from the Pentagon&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,36,176,1,7],"tags":[899,717,897,903,901,902,900,898,894,893,904,895,896],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936"}],"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=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}