The Department of National Defense Confirmed that the Five of the 16 Polish-made Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawk combat utility helicopters acquired for the Philippine Air Force were already in the Philippines soil. And the remaining batch expected to be delivered via sea next month.
"Yes, the five arrived in Clark Air base in Ang-heless City, Pampanga) aboard an Antonov heavy transport plane A N-124. The second batch with the number of 6 units, was loaded on a ship that will arrive on Dec. 2," Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said, in a message to the Philippine News Agency.
The 16 helicopters, acquired from Polish Aviation Works (PZL-Mielec), were manufactured under license from Sikorsky USA and had a contract price of US$241.4 million (around PHP11.6 billion).
The project was procured through a government-to-government transaction with Poland. And the negotiations were completed in 2019.
The acquisition of the Polish-made S-70i Black Hawk combat helicopters is part of Combat Utility Helicopter, of Philippine Air Force's, Phase 3 of Horizon 2 Phase Acquisition Project of the Revised Armed Forces of The Philippines Modernization Program (RAFPMP).
The Antonov plane took off from Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport, Poland on Nov. 7 and arrived at Clark Air Base on Monday.
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