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Sea Knight carrying supplies, with its tricycle landing gear silhouetted Looking out from a cockpit of a CH-46, at another The Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight is a medium-lift tandem-rotor transport helicopter , furnished with a set of counter-rotating main rotors in a tandem-rotor configuration.
Tandem-rotor aircraft. Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight. Animation. A tandem-rotor aircraft is an aircraft with two large helicopter rotor assemblies mounted one in front of the other in the horizontal plane. Currently this configuration is mainly used for large cargo helicopters.
VMM-164. Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 164 (VMM-164), is a United States Marine Corps tiltrotor squadron operating the MV-22B Osprey. Known as the Knightriders, they fall under the command Marine Aircraft Group 39 (MAG-39) and the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (3rd MAW). They are based at Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton.
HMX-1 also formerly operated a small number of CH-46 Sea Knights for utility purposes, and recently retired its fleet of CH-53E Super Stallions. These aircraft were replaced with MV-22B Ospreys by 2017. [10] These support aircraft also share the HMX-1 dark green livery, but lack the white paint at the top of the aircraft (thus the nickname ...
The squadron, known as the "Black Knights", was based at Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina, and normally fell under the command of Marine Aircraft Group 26 (MAG-26) and the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (2nd MAW). They were the last east coast CH-46 Sea Knight squadron to transition to the Osprey. VMM-264 was decommissioned on 24 ...
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4 CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters or 2 MV-22 tilt rotor aircraft may be launched or recovered simultaneously. USS Portland (LPD-27) is a San Antonio -class amphibious transport dock ship of the United States Navy, named after the U.S. city of Portland, Oregon. The ship was laid down in 2013, launched in 2016 and commissioned in 2018.
The squadron re-deployed in February 2005 with only seven CH-46E’s in anticipation of the transition to the MV-22. The squadron was officially stood down June 3, 2005, for transitioning from the CH-46 Sea Knight to the MV-22 Osprey. HMM-263 was re-designated VMM-263 and reactivated March 3, 2006 as the first operational MV-22 squadron. [2]