27-Feb-24 - The UK Department of Defence (DoD) issued the Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) to three bidders for the New Medium Helicopter (NMH) competition to provide UK Armed forces with a new rotary-wing capability #NMH
03-Apr-23 - Royal Air Force (RAF) 84 Squadron based out of RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus transitioned from the Griffin HAR.2 (Bell 412) to the Puma HC.2 on March 31, 2023 #Cyprus
27-Oct-22 - Heli-One, CHC MRO provider, presented its Award for Engineering Excellence to RAF Benson Sergeant Burns for assuring the current and future delivery of Puma helicopter capability through Fleet Plan #puma
28-Jun-21 - As part of UK Armed Forces process of withdrawing from Afghanistan the RAF Puma helicopters deployed with NATO Resolute Support Mission since March 2015 returned to RAF Benson
09-May-21 - Royal Air Force Puma helicopters received environmental training at NAF El Centro in California for two-months. An essential step ahead of future NATO Resolute Support Mission deployments to Afghanistan. Chinooks will follow.
14-Jun-20 - Three RAF Puma deployed to Kinloss to support the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) in the Coronavirus (COVID-19) fight head back to RAF Benson after 3 months in Scotland #coronavirus
04-Aug-19 - The RAF Benson Pumas Detachment based in Kabul, Afghanistan as part of Operation TORAL, is deployed since March 2015 to train, advise and assist (TAAC-Air) Afghan security forces #Puma
22-Dec-17 - Airbus sign £100M contract with UK MoD for full technical support and logistics of the RAF Puma Mk2 24 helicopters until March 2022. Fleet scheduled to be retired from service in 2025
01-Apr-16 - In their first operational deployment, RAF Puma Mk.2 helicopters from Operation Toral completed one year in Kabul. They replaced the Chinook detachment on April 2015 in NATO mission Resolute Support
24-Mar-16 - The 24 Puma HC.2 upgraded in France and Romania under the RAF Puma Life Extension Programme (LEP) between 2012 and March 2015 have reached 10,000 flight hours last february
