Sikorsky Aircraft has won a $1.24 billion Engineering and Manufacturing Development contract to build the new fleet of VH-92 Marine One helicopters for the Office of the US President. The company will modify, test and deliver six Federal Aviation Administration-certified S-92s and two training simulators to the US Marine Corps as the initial step in providing a (ⅤⅩⅩ) Presidential Helicopter Replacement fleet totalling 21 aircraft. Of the six contracted VH-92s, two will be development airframes that will be delivered in 2018 for testing flight performance and mission communication systems by the Department of the Navy at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. The remaining four, designated System Demonstration Test Articles, will perform operational test and evaluation and then gain an operational status. By early 2019, the US Navy, which is handling the acquisition, is expected to place orders for the first of three lots that will total 17 production VH-92s. Final deliveries will be made by 2023.
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