Timberline Helicopters (Booth 12655) has earned a restricted-category FAA type certificate for the Sikorsky UH-60A Black Hawk. The process took 10 months. The aircraft will be utilized in multi-mission roles including firefighting, transmission/utility line construction, precision lift missions and other heavy-lift operations. Timberline also has a growing list of supplemental type certificates in the works for the Black Hawk. The helicopter has a lifting capacity of 8,000 pounds on the hook.
Timberline’s Black Hawk–N434TH–is on display here at Heli-Expo in Static Space 9. Timberline was founded in 2007 as an aerial logging operation and has expanded into a variety of precision aerial lift services. It also operates the Kaman K-Max helicopter.