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NAVAIR: U.S. Navy delivers first Seahawks to Danish Defense
Three MH-60R Seahawk helicopters departed Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation’s William P. Gwinn Airfield May 10, aboard two C-17 aircraft to join their new home with Air Squadron 723, Karup Air Base in Denmark. This is the first delivery to the Danish Defense, which is replacing their former fleet of British Lynx helicopters with the Seahawk. The…
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NAVAIR: One KC-130R Hercules refuses to quit
The Tactical Airlift Program (PMA-207) foreign military sales (FMS) team delivered a KC-130R Hercules May 2, from the U.S. Navy fleet to the Chilean Air Force (Fuerza Aérea de Chile: FACh). The aircraft was put into service in 1977 as part of Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron (VMGR) 252. Throughout its 30 years of service…
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NAVAIR: Large force exercise tests software, range
For two weeks, the skies over the Point Mugu Sea Range echoed with the sound of jets as Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 31 took over the airspace with a Large Force Exercise intended to test and validate new software configuration sets for the F/A-18 and EA-18G aircraft series April 18-29. Home stationed in…
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NAVAIR: Mission readiness top priority for heavy lift helicopter community
The Naval Air Systems Command’s (NAVAIR) H-53 Heavy Lift Helicopter Program (PMA-261) met in Norfolk Apr. 18 with U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy leaders and maintainers as part of their efforts to increase mission readiness. Both the Navy and Marine Corps have put aviation readiness at the top of their priority list, and Marine…
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NAVAIR: U.S. Marine Corps’ CH-53K helicopter completes first external load test
A CH-53K King Stallion, the U.S. Marine Corps’ newest helicopter, completed its first external load flight test Apr. 19 at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation’s Development Flight Center, suspending, then releasing, a 12,000 lb. load. Further tests will continue to expand the envelope with external payloads of 12,000 pounds flown first in hover, then incrementally increasing speeds…
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NAVAIR: Long-lead components contract awarded for CH-53K LRIP
The Naval Air Systems Command awarded April 18 a $25 million firm fixed-price advance acquisition contract to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, Conn. for long-lead parts and materials required to build and deliver the first Low Rate Initial Production Lot 1(LRIP-1) of the US Marine Corps CH-53K King Stallion. „All acquisition programs are facing budget pressures…