21-Jun-23 - Leonardo and Kawasaki Heavy Industries sign contract for additional MCH-101 helicopters and the start of a mid-life update programme for the type in Japan JMSDF
19-May-21 - Airbus RBH (Repair by the Hour) and PBH (Parts by the Hour) support contracts are gaining ground in the military sector with customised offers still essential to meeting the widest range of demands #CustomerSupport
21-Oct-20 - HCare, Airbus Helicopters customer service plan, celebrating 35 years since then Aerospatiale signed first parts-by-the hour (PBH) with UK offshore oil and gas operator Bristow back in 1985 #HCare
14-Oct-16 - Airbus Helicopters Japan signed contract with Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) for Performance-based Logistics (PBL) service HCare
03-Aug-16 - Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico and Chile conducted mine countermeasures training as part of the Southern California portion of exercise Rim of the Pacific RIMPAC 2016 with HM-14’s MH-53E
21-Jul-16 - US Marines HMH-361 CH-53E Super Stallions participated with the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and Okinawa emergency services in Exercise Chura-Shima Rescue 2016
23-Apr-16 - US Marines Ospreys from VMM-265 based at Okinawa joined Japan Self Defense Force (JSDF) helicopter destroyer JS Hyuga (DDH 181) in their fifth day of disaster relief operations after the earthquakes
15-Dec-15 - The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) received the last 2 TH-135. Based on the EC135T2i, 15 training helicopters were first ordered in 2009 and began operations in 2011.
05-Sep-15 - USAF 18th Wing participated for the first time in a bilateral disaster response exercise alongside Japan Self-Defense Forces and the Okinawa Prefectural Government at Atta Port
05-Sep-15 - U.S., Japan, Mexico and New Zealand training large-scale amphibious landing during Dawn Blitz 2015 off the coast of Camp Pendleton, California. Australia, Chile and Colombia are acting as observers.
10-Mar-15 - AgustaWestland and Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) announce the delivery of the first Airborne Mine Counter Measures (AMCM) equipped MCH-101 helicopter to the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force.
02-Feb-15 - Northrop Grumman received a contract from the US Navy for the continued production of the AN/AES-1 Airborne Laser Mine Detection System (ALMDS) pod subsystems for the MH-60S Seahawk helicopter.
05-Dec-14 - Airbus Helicopters Japan handed over TH-135 numbers 11,12 and 13 to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). TH-135 is a training helicopter special customized variant of the EC135T2+
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