Bell Textron has announced that the US Army has officially designated the MV-75 as the Cheyenne II. Consistent with the company’s tradition of honouring Native American tribes (the Army calls the iconic ‘Huey’ the Iroquois), the MV-75 honours the heritage of the Cheyenne Tribes, two federally recognised nations: the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in Montana and the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes in Oklahoma.
In 2025, the Army revealed the Mission Design Series (MDS) MV-75. The ‘MV’ indicates that it is a multi-mission vertical takeoff aircraft and the ‘75’ commemorates the US Army’s founding year, 1775.
