{"id":478397,"date":"2022-03-25T09:30:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=478397"},"modified":"2022-03-25T09:50:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T04:20:24","slug":"pawan-hans-leases-6-sikorsky-s-76d-choppers-for-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pawan-hans-leases-6-sikorsky-s-76d-choppers-for-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Pawan Hans leases 6 Sikorsky S-76D choppers for operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lockheed Martin \u2014 America\u2019s and the world\u2019s largest aerospace and defence firm \u2014 is giving stiff competition in the Indian helicopter market to its rival, Boeing. Boeing scored early with the multi-billion-dollar sale to the Indian Air Force of Chinook heavy lift choppers and Apache attack helicopters. However, Lockheed Martin\u2019s subsidiary, Sikorsky, is catching up fast with the $2.12-billion sale to the Indian Navy last year of 24 Seahawk multi-role maritime helicopters. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Sikorsky scored again. Providing a bright start to Wings India 2022 \u2014 India\u2019s premier civil aviation air show being held at Hyderabad from March 24-28 \u2014 Pawan Hans announced it had leased six Sikorsky S-76D helicopters from Milestone Aviation Group (Milestone), the global leader in helicopter leasing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lockheed Martin \u2014 America\u2019s and the world\u2019s largest aerospace and defence firm \u2014 is giving stiff competition in the Indian helicopter market to its rival, Boeing. Boeing scored early with the multi-billion-dollar sale to the Indian Air Force of Chinook heavy lift choppers and Apache attack helicopters. However, Lockheed Martin\u2019s subsidiary, Sikorsky, is catching up fast with the $2.12-billion sale to the Indian Navy last year of 24 Seahawk multi-role maritime helicopters. On Thursday, Sikorsky scored again. Providing a bright start to Wings India 2022 \u2014 India\u2019s premier civil aviation air show being held at Hyderabad from March 24-28 \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}