Boeing launches MH-139

Boeing has unveiled its MH-139 helicopter in the competition to replace the US Air Force’s UH-1N ‘Huey’ fleet. Boeing’s response to the Air Force, revealed at the Air Force Association Air Warfare Symposium, is based on Leonardo Helicopters AW139. The US Air Force UH-1N Replacement Programme plans to replace the current Huey fleet, which entered service in the 1970s, with up to 84 new helicopters. Almost 900 AW139s are in service with more than 250 governments, militaries and companies across the world. More than 250 of the helicopters have been assembled and delivered from Philadelphia.