After more than 40 years of service, the Marine Corps retired the aging CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter during a "sundown ceremony" Feb. 10 at the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. "From ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Three CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopters — the same model that generated widespread protests from Okinawans when one crashed in August — were to be transferred ...

The U.S. Marine Corps’ CH-53D Sea Stallion fleet is facing a higher scrap rate on its rotor blades than in the past, and the service is juggling priorities to avoid a gap in capability. An Improved ...

CAMP PENDLETONCAMP PENDLETON — In a memorial garden on the northern end of Camp Pendleton, comrades are set to gather to dedicate a new monument. The monument remembers the sacrifice of 18 U.S.

The U.S. Marine Corps has managed to get ahead of what it feared last spring would be a capability gap due to higher than anticipated scrap rates on the rotor blades of its CH-53D Sea Stallion fleet.

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. says it's proceeding to the next phase in developing a new generation of the Marines' workhorse CH-53 heavy-lift helicopter. The Stratford helicopter maker, a unit of United ...

Heavy Lift to put ex-US Marine Corps CH-53D through paces in preparation for the 2006 North American season Heavy Lift, a California-based specialist helicopter company, has started evaluating what is ...