The US Marine Corps has retired the CH-53D Sea Stallion after 40 years of service in a 'sunset ceremony' held on 10 February at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The aircraft continue to operate with the ...

The Marine Corps plans to replace one of the CH-53D squadrons at Kaneohe Bay with newer CH-53E Super Stallions and the two other squadrons with MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft.

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 ...

A big CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter from Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kaneohe Bay crashed in southern Afghanistan today, officials confirmed. Six International Security Assistance Force service ...

The annual event was first held in 2007, three years after a Marine CH-53D Sea Stallion crashed into the grounds of Okinawa International University, just outside Marine Corps Air Station Futenma ...

An accomplished Marine Corps helicopter and tiltrotor pilot — a veteran of the war in Iraq — took up his first overseas ...

The U.S. Marine Corps’ CH-53D Sea Stallion fleet is facing a higher scrap rate on its rotor blades than in the past, and the service is juggling priorities to avoid a gap in capability.

The move comes after a Marine CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter crashed Aug. 13 at the campus of Okinawa International University adjacent to the Futenma base in Ginowan, Okinawa.

INCREASED PAYLOAD: U.S. Marine Corps CH-53D Sea Stallion and CH-53E Super Stallion engines soon should benefit from more power on hot temperature and high altitude flights thanks to engine upgrades.

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded separate contracts to outfit U.S. Marine Corps CH-53D and CH-46E helicopters with the company's battle-proven Directional Infrared Countermeasures (DIRCM) ...

As the Marine Forces commander, ... Cavanaugh is a seasoned career U.S. Marine Corps aviator with 3,000 flight hours, primarily in the CH-53D/E Sea Stallion heavy-lift transport helicopter.

Production plant for CH-53K King Stallion helicopter. (credit: LOCKHEED MARTIN) “Ramping up production of the most technologically advanced helicopter in the world allows the US Marine Corps to ...