Australian based Helitak Fire Fighting Equipment has received further approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to add more Black Hawk model Type Certificates (TC) to the FAA Supplemental Type Certification (STC) of the Helitak FT4500 Black Hawk fire tank, bringing the current number of TC’s to 18 and the total number of approved models to 24 including the UH-60A, EH-60AH60, HH-60A, S-70, S-70C, S-70A and the S-70M models. The receipt of this recent Approved Model List (AML) amendment means operators of Black Hawk helicopters issued under these 18 type certificates are approved to install and operate the Helitak FT4500 fire suppression tank. Over the coming months, additional type certificates will be added. The type certificates approved in the Helitak Supplemental Type Certificate SR04461CH are: Aircraft Make Aircraft Model Original TC No. High Performance Helicopters UH-60A R00054SE (approved with initial STC in May 2021) Pickering Aviation UH-60A, EH-60A R00003AC (added October 29, 2021) Delta Enterprise UH-60A, EH-60A R00019AT (added October 29, 2021) Carson Helicopters UH-60A R00020AT (added October 29, 2021) PJ Helicopters UH-60A R00020LA (added October 29, 2021) Billings Flying Services UH-60A R00021LA (added October 29, 2021) Skydance Blackhawk UH-60A R00022LA (added October 29, 2021) Ace Aeronautics UH-60A R00005RC (added
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