March 9, 2012: The U.S. Marine Corps has finally retired the last of its CH-53D transport helicopters. Introduced in the late 1960s, 124 were built before production stopped in 1972. The CH-53D was to ...

PEARL HARBOR (HawaiiNewsNow) – In light of the military helicopter crash in Kaneohe, Hawaii News Now took a closer look at the CH-53D "Sea Stallion" - what it's used for and when and where it operates ...

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division is to assist in the integration design for the installation of the Department of the Navy (DoN) Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) system on ...

Sikorsky has won a contract from Israel's Ministry of Defense to supply spare parts and associated engineering services in support of the CH-53D heavy lift helicopters operated by the Israeli Air ...

A Marine’s family had been notified of his death and three others remained hospitalized yesterday as crews worked to contain a fuel spill and investigators started looking into why an aging but ...

Navy sailors from Mobile Diving Salvage Unit 1, Company 15, clear the extraction point in Kaneohe Bay where a CH-53D Sea Stallion is lifting another CH-53D back to Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay ...

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 ...

In a little-noticed deployment shift, deputy commandant for aviation, Lt. General Trautman told Inside the Navy that the 40-year old CH-53D choppers are retiring before their previously reported FY18 ...

No one who has flown in a Marine Corps CH-53 can ever forget the experience: It's like riding in some kind of steam-powered, cast-iron 1890s earthquake simulator designed by Jules Verne that was sent ...

June 21 (UPI) --Sikorsky has signed an agreement with the Israeli Ministry of Defense to supply spare parts and engineering services for Israel's fleet of Ch-53D helicopters. The program is slated to ...

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.