This aircraft worked well as a transport and light utility helicopter with the ability to hold up to 8 fully armed men and a pilot.
Last week, it won its first direct contract from the Pentagon, to supply up to 352 light utility helicopters.
Alouette and Puma, respectively were light and medium utility helicopters.
The unit operates various utility helicopters, mostly in Search and Rescue variants.
As the light utility helicopter zigzagged along the ridges, sporadic small-arms fire popped from beneath the trees.
All of its aircraft are utility helicopters and basic trainers.
The Lynx remains in service as an armed escort, surveillance and light utility helicopter.
Bell designed its Model 204 in response to a 1955 United States Army requirement for a utility helicopter.
A civil utility helicopter, a derivative of the Bell 206L-4.
The Dornier Do 132 was a utility helicopter under development in Germany in the late 1960s.