The 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward) had a CH-53E Super Stallion squadron and a CH-53D Sea Stallion squadron. But both versions of the aircraft were decades old, but were incredibly busy across the theater of operations. Those platforms desperately need to be upgraded. The new CH-53K King ...

WASHINGTON — The helicopter training crash earlier this week in the desert of Southern California killed three early-career Marines in their 20s and a 33-year-old crew chief who had served two tours in Iraq, Corps officials said Thursday. The Marines' CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter wrecked Tuesday ...

Four Marines were killed in a CH-53E Super Stallion heavy-lift helicopter crash near the U.S. border with Mexico, according to a statement from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing. The helicopter crashed about 15 miles west of El Centro around 2:30 p.m. during a routine training mission, according to the ...

A Marine Corps helicopter crashed in California during a routine training mission and all four crew members aboard are presumed dead. The CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter crashed near the city of El Centro, which is near the Mexico border, according to a statement from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing.

A Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter crashed during a routine training mission Tuesday in California, killing the four crew members aboard, the Marine Corps said. The heavy lift helicopter was part of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing and was flying near El Centro, California, when the crash ...

A CH-53E Super Stallion crashed near Naval Air Field El Centro at roughly 2:30pm local time on Tuesday. An official release from the USMC states that the helicopter belonged to the Third Marine Aircraft Wing based out of MCAS Miramar in nearby San Diego. CH-53s transit through and train in the area ...

The Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion is the largest heavy lift helicopter in the U.S. arsenal. It is a three-engine aircraft with a lift capacity in excess of fifteen tons and uses a large, seven-blade main rotor. Developed from the U.S. Navy's CH-53 Sea Stallion that first flew in 1966, the U.S. Marine CH-53E Super ...

On December 7, 2017, a small plastic canister loudly separated from a Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion flying low over Ginowan's Midorigaoka nursery school, where a group of one-year-old children were about to play. The canister landed on the preschool's roof. Amid anger from parents and staff, ...

The CH-53K will be considered the most powerful helicopter in the Department of Defense and is scheduled to completely replace the CH-53E Super Stallion by 2030. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Molly Hampton). According to Pawlowicz, the blades can be stripped down to the core and the ...

13, a CH-53E Super Stallion's window inexplicably became separated from the aircraft and landed on an elementary school sports field adjacent to Marine Corps Air Station Futenma's fence line. More than 50 schoolchildren were playing at the time, and a boy was slightly injured from a pebble that flew up ...

The GE engines will increase the external load-carrying capacity of the helicopters by three times compared to the USMC's existing CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter powered by GE Aviation's T64 engine. Also, the T408 engines will offer 57% additional power, 18% better specific fuel consumption and ...

In December, workers discovered a small part from a Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter on the roof of Midorigaoka nursery school, about 300 meters from Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. A week later, a Super Stallion's window dropped onto a sports field at nearby elementary school, where ...

Powered by three T408s, the King Stallion will triple the earlier-generation CH-53E Super Stallion's external load-carrying capacity to 11,900kg (27,000lb). The Super Stallion is equipped with two GE T64s. The T408 has 57% more power, delivers 18% better specific fuel consumption and has a nearly ...

A Soldier with the 95th Engineer Company (Clearance), 130th Engineer Brigade, 8th Theater Sustainment Command, jumps out of a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter belonging to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463 (HMH-463) during helocast operations training January 25, 2018 at Marine Corps ...

The JLTV family of vehicles are the Army and Marine Corps' replacement for the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) and the CH-53K is replacing its predecessor, the CH-53E Super Stallion. The specific JLTV used for the demonstration was the four-seat model, known as the Combat ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — U.S. Forces Japan has issued an apology after an American military helicopter again flew over the Okinawan elementary school where a window fell from a Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion onto a playground in December. A helicopter overflew Futenma Daini Elementary ...