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Triple-engined search and rescue helicopter that replaced the CH-113 Labrador. Fourteen delivered between 2000 and 2002. Based at (103 Squadron) 9 Wing Gander, Newfoundland; (413 Squadron) 14 Wing Greenwood, Nova Scotia; and (442 Squadron) 19 Wing Comox, British Columbia. One aircraft has been lost in a training accident.
The first of 41 helicopters would be delivered in 1963 carrying the designation CHSS-2 Sea King. Airframe components were made by Sikorsky in Connecticut but most CHSS-2s were assembled in Longueuil, Quebec , by United Aircraft of Canada (now Pratt & Whitney Canada ), a subsidiary of Sikorsky's parent company, United Aircraft .
The Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone is a twin-engine, multi-role shipborne helicopter developed by the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation for the Canadian Armed Forces. [3] [4] A military variant of the Sikorsky S-92, the CH-148 is designed for shipboard operations and replaced the CH-124 Sea King, which was in Canadian Armed Forces operation from 1963 to 2018.
The Canadian Air Force (CAF) was established in 1920 as the successor to a short-lived two-squadron Canadian Air Force that was formed during the First World War in Europe. . Wing Commander John Scott Williams was tasked in 1921 with organizing the CAF, handing command over later the same year to Air Marshal Lindsay Gordon.
The aircraft are listed by Transport Canada as being registered to Canadian Helicopters Limited - Hélicoptères Canadiens Limitée registered in Quebec. [ 3 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The Transport Canada list also shows an Aerospatiale AS350D, [ 13 ] an Aerospatiale AS 355F1, [ 14 ] a Bell 212, [ 15 ] a Bell 206B, [ 16 ] a Robinson R22 BETA, [ 17 ] and ...
The world's most powerful rocket took to the sky on Thursday morning in its most successful Starship launch to date. Thursday's launch was the fourth test flight for the super-heavy rocket.
A Merlin HM1, the naval version of the EH101, of 814 NAS loaded with a Sting Ray torpedo. In 1983, the Department of National Defence (DND) began issuing contracts for the Sea King Replacement Project; these were not intended to replace the CH-124, then reaching its 20th year with the Canadian Forces (CF), but instead was for develop new avionics for an unknown future replacement helicopter. [1]
In new satellite imagery, Russia's military appears to be packing up equipment at a key airbase in Syria. The images show transport aircraft ready to load cargo at the Hmeimim Air Base on Friday.