The Sikorsky UH-60 black colored Hawk is a "twin-turbine" engine, solitary rotor, semimonocoque fuselage, rotary wing helicopter. The "Ebony Hawk" was created to meet up a US Army requirement of a UH-1 Iroquois replacement in 1972. Three prototypes had been constructed, the first (YUH-60) flying in October 1974, and evaluated against a rival (YUH-61) Boeing-Vertol design. The Ebony Hawk ended up being chosen for production together with UH-60A joined solution utilizing the US Army in 1979.
