Rheinmetall Supports German CH-53G Transport Helicopters at All Bases

The company will support the German Air Force at the Laupheim and Holzdorf-Schönewalde bases, conducting pre-flight inspections and operating a total of three service bays for partial work phases at the 64th Helicopter Squadron By DA Staff / 23 Mar 2022

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The Bundeswehr has selected Rheinmetall to provide support, maintenance and repair services for the German Air Force’s Sikorsky CH-53G transport helicopters at two additional bases.

Starting in March 2022, the company will support the German Air Force at Laupheim in Baden-Württemberg and Holzdorf-Schönewalde on the border of Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg, conducting pre-flight inspections and operating a total of three service bays for partial work phases at the 64th Helicopter Squadron. Worth a figure in the lower two-digit million-euro range, the contract with Rheinmetall Aviation Services GmbH runs for three years in two lots.

Rheinmetall has been maintaining CH-53G helicopters on behalf of the German Air Force since November 2020. As planned, the company took over maintenance operations at Diepholz Air Base in Lower Saxony in March 2021.

The 64th Helicopter Squadron is stationed in Laupheim where, together with its air transport group at Holzdorf-Schönewalde, it operates 66 CH-53G helicopters, an aircraft which has been in the Bundeswehr inventory since 1972. In all cases, the work Rheinmetall carries out is directly embedded in the structures of the 64th Helicopter Squadron.

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