05-Sep-23 - Finland’s NH90 helicopters will visit Sweden for a training exercise with their Swedish counterparts. Several days prior to this, Finland will receive Royal Danish Air Force AS550 Fennec helicopters in their country #Nordics
16-Nov-21 - Danish Præhospitalet Region Midtjylland has used the Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) EH101 helicopter equipped with the EpiShuttle isolation stretcher during the COVID-19 pandemic #coronavirus
11-Oct-21 - CAE received Foreign Military Sale (FMS) contract to upgrade the Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk helicopter Mission Operational Flight Trainer #Seahawk
18-Jul-20 - Aircraft and support personnel of Britain, Denmark and Estonia are deployed in Mali embedded into the French Operation Barkhane against counter-terrorism in West Africa #Barkhane
19-Dec-19 - Denmark sent two EH101 helicopters with 70 support personnel to Mali to support French forces engaged in Operation Barkhane in the Sahel region. Deployment scheduled to last for at least one year #OperationBarkhane
03-Dec-18 - Safran signed contract to support until mid-2030s 11 Arriel 1D1 engines for the Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) AS550C2 Fennec helicopters. In 2016 they signed contract for the EH101’ RTM322 turboshafts #Arriel
14-Dec-17 - Denmark retires the Westland Lynx in use since 1980 with a last flight at Karup and starts first deployment of MH-60R Seahawk aboard a Thetis class frigate to the Faroe Islands and Greenland
11-May-16 - Royal Danish air force (Flyvevåbnet) received first 3 of 9 MH-60R Seahawk helicopters. Will be used by the 723 Squadron in replacement of their old Westland Lynx.
23-Oct-15 - The U.S. Navy accepted the first MH-60R Seahawk helicopter slated for Denmark from Lockheed Martin. Will be delivered to the Royal Danish Air Force in 2016 and the full fleet of nine by 2018.
