TR Attack & Utility Helicopter Programs

[Saithan]

so what's keeping us from building 8 of these and having 1-2 go through certification process etc. while we test flight the begesus of the remaining 6, stress test, and try to reach at least 1000+ flight hours on them, if we're confident enough that they'll pass the process.

 

[Sanchez]

Certification programs EASA or not, take time. Also there may be some technical difficulties, these processes are perfectly normal. What is not normal is the created expectations about T625 entering services as soon as it flies.

T625 first flew in 2018. We didn't create the expectations, they were claimed by the company GM at the time.

This aircraft was to be delivered to gendarme in Q1 2023, which was already a delayed date, because first 3 T625s were to be delivered to gendarme in 2022. Going even further, originally first delivery was to be made in Q4 2021, which was later updated to 1 T625 by H2 2022, which was later revised to first delivery in Q1 2023, then revised to Q4 2023, and we currently do not have any dates.

"The first batch of 3 helicopters is expected to be delivered in 2022. The delivery date for the T625 GÖKBEY was previously planned as October 29, 2021, which was later updated as 'mid-2022'."

T625 GÖKBEY P3 Prototipi LHTEC CTS800-4AT Motorları ile İlk Uçuşunu Yaptı, TS1400 ile İlk Uçuş için Hedef 2023!

TUSAŞ Genel Müdürü ve CEO’su Temel KOTİL, sosyal medya hesabı Twitter’dan 17 Mayıs 2022 tarihinde yaptığı bir paylaşım ile ilk uçuşunu yapan 4’üncü GÖKBEY prototipinin icra edilen test uçuşları sırasında çekilmiş kareleri takipçileriyle paylaştı ve ekledi, “Gece gündüz demeden çalışan tüm...

www.defenceturkey.com

"Kotil announced that they will deliver the first GÖKBEY helicopter to the Gendarmerie General Command towards the end of 2022."

TUSAŞ 2022 yılında Jandarma'ya ilk Gökbey helikopterini teslim edecek

TUSAŞ, 2022 yılında Jandarma Genel Komutanlığı'na 3 adet GÖKBEY genel maksat helikopteri teslim edecek

www.defenceturk.net

 

[Sanchez]

J-6001, first production T625 Gökbey for Gendarme is in Güvercinlik joint base, presumably for more trials and/or certification tests. J-6001 was rolled off in 2022 and is still not officially delivered to JnGK.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1826543311777149378

Seems this was from last year when it visited there and not recent. Sad, we are passing another claimed delivery date, which was August 2024 for 2 T625s.

 

[boredaf]

Seems this was from last year when it visited there and not recent. Sad, we are passing another claimed delivery date, which was August 2024 for 2 T625s.

I'm beginning to wish we had a different company focused solely on helicopters and related systems.