UH-60L Black Hawk
More power, a stronger gearbox and a heavier hook load · Ordered 1987 · Produced 1989–2007
Added mission equipment had steadily eaten into the UH-60A's performance, so in 1987 the Army ordered the improved UH-60L. It made the fleet's accumulated modifications standard and took the uprated T700-GE-701C engines, durability gearbox and automatic flight control improvements from the Navy's SH-60B Seahawk. The underslung load limit rose by about 450 kg to 4,080 kg (9,000 lb).
The UH-60L was produced from 1989 to 2007, while the Army's Corpus Christi depot also converted UH-60As to L standard. Derivatives include the HH-60L medevac version with a rescue hoist and patient system, and the South Korean UH-60P, around 150 of which were licence-built by Korean Air.
Export customers for the L include Brazil, whose army and air force fly it in the Amazon, as well as Colombia, Mexico and Jordan. In the US, a number of L models were given the glass cockpit of the UH-60M as the UH-60V, before the Army cancelled further conversions in 2024 in favour of new UH-60Ms.
