For your Christmas Wishlist: a personal Blackhawk

Check out the photo in “Heli-Expo 2017: Black Hawks flooding the market” of a Blackhawk helicopter with cow-themed paint. From the article:

According to Parsons, there is likely to be around 800 UH-60s to be divested by the US Army with the A models the first to go, followed by the Lima models. At the moment four UH-60As are being auctioned per month. … Since 2014, commercial operators have acquired approximately 140 UH-60A aircraft at auction from the General Services Administration.

7 thoughts on “For your Christmas Wishlist: a personal Blackhawk

  1. I want one! Do you have an estimate of how high you have to go to win?
    Costs per hour? Maintenance and insurance costs?

  2. How a private individual can spend huge amounts of money lifting insanely large engines with no purpose at all.

  3. @Steve: Conklin & deDecker says variable operating cost is $3300/hr, so about as much as a Gulfstream G450. Let me know how that goes 🙂

  4. The shephard article cuts off after the first sentence without a registration/subscription… I was just looking to get a ballpark cost estimate.

    I think I’d be safer driving a drone.

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