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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. UH-60J: Toshinori baba· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Sikorsky VH-60N White Hawk: John Murphy· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. UH-60A Black Hawk: Reise Reise· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. 2023-10-26 PAF Black Hawk 002: Philippine Air Force (PAF)· Public domain
- 5. 892 United States - US Army Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk (5644290375): Tomás Del Coro from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 6. A UH-60 Blackhawk from the 7th Battalion, 1ST Aviation Regiment, 4th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, Katterbach, Germany drops US Army scouts from the 2nd Battalion, 15th Infantry, - DPLA - 56e4b3c74530c9ac97330493a0fb697a: Department of Defense. American Forces Information Service. Defense Visual Information Center. 1994· Public domain
- 7. Australian Army Black Hawk Zhu-2: Duan Zhu· CC BY 3.0
- 8. Jordanian Air Force UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter (cropped): Wolfram M. Stumpf, U.S. Air Force· Public domain
- 9. National-Guard-UH-60-Black-Hawk-operations-at-Fort-McCoy: 147th Aviation Regiment· Public domain
- 10. ROCA UH-60M Black Hawk: 總統府· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk is a four-blade, twin-engine, medium-lift military utility helicopter manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft. Sikorsky submitted a design for the United States Army's Utility Tactical Transport Aircraft System (UTTAS) competition in 1972. The Army designated the prototype as the YUH-60A and selected the Black Hawk as the winner of the program in 1976, after a fly-off competition with the Boeing Vertol YUH-61.
How to recognise it: 2 turboshaft engines · 16.4 m main rotor
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 52 years ago, in 1974.
- Top speed is 2.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Rotor of 16.4 m: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
turboshaft: A turbine that turns a shaft, usually a helicopter rotor.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1974-10-17
- introduced
- 1979
- status
- still flying
- number built
- 4,000
- role
- utility helicopter
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
- engines
- 2× General Electric T700-GE-701C/D
- crew
- 2
- passengers
- 11
- length
- 19.8 m
- rotor diameter
- 16.4 m
- height
- 5.1 m
- max take-off weight
- 9,979 kg
- top speed
- 294 km/h
- cruise speed
- 282 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 5,791 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q189491, Wikipedia: Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.