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Aircraft reference

6M-BH

S-70 A · Austrian Air Force

Helicopter bombersAustria
Photograph of 6M-BH

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Identity

Mission
Helicopter bombers
Registration
6M-BH
Mode-S address
447D28
ICAO type
H60
Model
S-70 A
Manufacturer
Sikorsky
Operator
Austrian Air Force
Country of registration
Austria
Home base
Tulln-Langenlebarn · Austria

Black Hawk with a 3,000 l bucket; also flies disaster relief and transport.

About the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk

Water-bombing helicopter

It uses a suspended bucket or an installed tank to take water from a nearby source and place short, precise drops, including in steep or confined terrain. Depending on its configuration, it may also move crews, equipment, or rescue teams.

What this type can do

The Black Hawk combines speed, lift, and rugged utility. With a bucket or tank it can make repeated medium-to-heavy water drops; without it, it transports crews and equipment, evacuates people, or supports disaster relief.

This describes the type’s usual firefighting capability; it does not prove what this aircraft is carrying or doing now.

Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk

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.

ICAO type · H60

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Flight history

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Photographs

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    Bundesheer Fotos · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

  • Photograph of the aircraft

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  • Photograph of the aircraft

    Bundesheer Fotos · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

  • Photograph of the aircraft

    Bundesheer Fotos · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Elsewhere

Live tracking & flight history

  • Flightradar24Commercial flight history, airport pairs and scheduled times.
  • ADS-B ExchangeUnfiltered live globe, including aircraft other trackers hide.
  • adsb.lolThe volunteer network this map reads its trajectories from.
  • FlightAwareRegistration record and recent activity.

Photography

  • JetPhotosScreened spotter photography, newest first.
  • Planespotters.netPhotographs alongside the production and delivery record.
  • Airliners.netLong-running photo archive, often the oldest images of a frame.
  • Wikimedia CommonsFreely licensed images — the ones this sheet is allowed to host.

Registries & airframe records

  • Airframes.orgAirframe history: serial number, operators, incidents.
  • adsbdbOpen registration database, in JSON.
  • hexdb.ioMode-S address record used by the tracking community, in JSON.

Type reference

  • ICAO type H60ICAO Doc 8643 entry: designator, wake category, engines.
Reference data assembled on July 27, 2026 from adsbdb, hexdb.io, Wikimedia Commons, Planespotters. Run pnpm fetch:aircraft --refresh to rebuild it.