Quotation Notices For Supply of Parts and Spares For MD530G

A technician with Rejimen 883 checking something in the cockpit of a MD530G prior to LKT 2022. BTDM

SHAH ALAM: Pasukan Udara Tentera Darat – the Army Air Wing – (PUTD) has issued four quotation notices to supply parts and spares for the MD530G light helicopters operated by the Rejimen 883 (ad hoc). The seven-day quotation notices confirmed what Malaysian Defence posted previously that the Army intends to maintain the helicopters themselves, at least for the time being.

PUTD technicians preparing what appear to be a gun pod for the Dillon M134 minigun for installation on a MD530G light helicopter in June 2022. BTDM

Two of the notices are for the supply of aeromechanical spares and parts and similar items for the three-hundred hours maintenance period of the helicopters. The notices:

PEROLEHAN ALAT GANTI AEROMEKANIKAL UNTUK PESAWAT MD530G BAGI REJIMEN 883 AD HOC PASUKAN UDARA TENTERA DARAT

PEROLEHAN ALAT GANTI SENGGARAAN 300 JAM UNTUK PESAWAT MD530G BAGI REJIMEN 883 PASUKAN UDARA TENTERA DARAT AD HOC

A soldier helping posed a child posed for a picture on the stub wing of a MD530G fitted a rocket launcher at the Army open day in Kuantan in late 2022. BTDM.

The other two notices are for the supply of parts and spares for the 12.7mm heavy machine gun pod and the Dillon M134 minigun.

PEROLEHAN ALAT GANTI HEAVY MACHINEGUN POD (HMP) UNTUK PESAWAT MD530G BAGI REJIMEN 883 AD HOC PASUKAN UDARA TENTERA DARAT

PEROLEHAN ALAT GANTI SENJATA UNTUK PESAWAT MD530G BAGI REJIMEN 883 PASUKAN UDARA TENTERA DARAT AD HOC

The quartermaster on AW109LOH M81-02 firing the Dillon M134 minigun installed in the cabin at LKT 2022 in June 2022. BTDM

It is also interesting to note that the quotation notices to conduct above-eight hundred hours maintenance for three Augusta AW109LOH (M81-01; M81-02, and M81-07) published in October last year was awarded to Aerotree Defence Services Sdn Bhd. Aerotree is more well known to provide training services to the Armed Forces.

PUTD MD Helicopters MD530G LSAH when it arrived at Subang in February 2022. Tentera Darat picture

The contract for 01 is listed at RM186,666.43; 02 RM137,505.16 and 07 RM115,262.41 by the Eperolehan website. Aerotree also won the quotation notice for the interior and exterior painting for seven AW109LOH with the unit that operates them, Rejimen 881 based at the Mahkota Camp, Kluang. The work includes the helicopters mentioned above and others including 03;08;09 and 011. No contract price was stated in the Eperolehan website.