UH-60M Black Hawk
The digital Black Hawk — glass cockpit, wide-chord blades and 2,000 shp engines · First flight 2003 · In service 2006
Development of the UH-60M was approved in 2001 to keep the Black Hawk competitive into the 2020s. The first prototype, rebuilt from an A model, flew for 75 minutes on 17 September 2003 at Sikorsky's test centre near West Palm Beach, Florida. The first production aircraft was delivered in July 2006, and full-rate production was approved in December 2007.
The M combines T700-GE-701D engines of about 2,000 shp, wide-chord composite main rotor blades, an improved durability gearbox, an Integrated Vehicle Health Management System and a new glass cockpit. The UH-60M Upgrade, which first flew on 29 August 2008, added fly-by-wire controls and the CAAS cockpit. The HH-60M is the Army's medevac version.
By the end of 2020 Sikorsky had delivered 831 UH-60Ms and 281 HH-60Ms to the US Army. Export operators include Sweden (where it is the Hkp 16), Slovakia, Australia, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania and Taiwan, and Greece ordered 35 in 2024.
