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On 13 Decenber 2001, Bell helicopter rolled out the first engineering, manufacturing and development (EMD) UH-1Y,
which is destined for the US Marine Corps. This took place at the company's Flight Research Center at Arlington Municipal Airport in Texas. The helicopter, dubbed "Yankee One," subsequently made its first flight one 20 December whem the joint Bell/USMC crew conducted in-ground-effect hover maneuvers. Modified to the new configuration as part of the H-1 upgrade program, the helicpter has already completed 50 flights at the end of March and is scheduled to arrive at NAS Patuxent River in Maryland, in May (2002). There, it will undergo flight-testing.