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The Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight is an American medium-lift tandem-rotor transport helicopter powered by twin turboshaft engines. It was designed by Vertol and manufactured by Boeing Vertol following Vertol's acquisition by Boeing. Development of the Sea Knight, which was originally designated by the firm as the Vertol Model 107, commenced ...
The Air Wing has increasingly moved away from the Sikorsky S-61T as it acquires CH-46 Sea Knights from the U.S. Marine Corps, as the latter seeks to replace it with V-22 Osprey tiltrotors. [ 10 ] Fixed-wing assets include the popular Cessna 208 Caravan and the Air Tractor AT-802 crop duster, the latter used to spray herbicides over drug fields.
Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron THREE (HELSEACOMBATRON 3 or HSC-3 Merlins) (previously Helicopter Combat Support Squadron THREE (HELSUPPRON 3 or HC-3 Packrats)), is a United States Navy multi-role combat helicopter squadron based at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego, California, which operates the Sikorsky MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter to train aircrew and support fleet development on ...
Detachment 102 – UH-46 Sea Knight – Vertical Replenishment – aboard USS Mars (AFS-1), two UH-46s, 22-24 crewmen, rotation of 30–60 days. Continued operations 1 September 1967, departed 27 April 1970 to HC-3. Recorded operations of a 1968 cruise, 79 ships supplied with 943 tons of stores.
HSC-25 was established as Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Five (HC-5) on 3 February 1984 and was re-designated Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron Twenty Five on 21 April 2005. As HC-5 the squadron earned a reputation for exceptional service and support to the Fifth and Seventh Fleets and to the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands. The ...
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 .
Two CH-46E Sea Knight or MH-60S Seahawk helicopters USNS Arctic (T-AOE 8) , formerly USS Arctic (AOE-8), is the third ship in the Supply class of fast combat support ships and is the fifth supply ship to carry the name of the region surrounding the North Pole .
A zitiron, or sea knight, is a mythological creature that has an upper body in the form of an armed knight, fused with the tail of a fish. [1] References.