General Electric Aviation has been awarded $157.7 million by the Navy for support of the T64 aircraft engine, which is used in the CH-53 Sea Stallion heavy lift helicopter.

With 36 aircraft currently still in inventory, the CH-53D is now considered a medium–lift helicopter. The Sea Stallion incorporates GPS sensors and carries 7.62mm and 50 caliber guns (as a ...

A typical rate for aircraft of this type is 2.26, but the Sea Dragon variant of the Stallion had a rate of 5.96. The Sea Dragon in particular has the perilous job of aerial mine countermeasures ...

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

The MH-53E Sea Dragon, a variant of the Sikorsky-built Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion, joined the Navy’s fleet in the mid-1980s. Since then, no Navy helicopter has crashed at a higher rate.

The MH-53E Sea Dragon is the U.S. Navy’s primary aerial mine countermeasures aircraft. A variant of the CH-53 Sea Stallion, the MH-53E is heavier and has a greater fuel capacity than its ancestor.

A Navy H-53 Sea Stallion helicopter crashed into the Gulf of Mexico, 16 miles southeast of Corpus Christi Thursday with six crew members. Two have been rescued.

The Sea Stallion had a long life, with the U.S. Marine Corps finally retiring it in 2012, after first using it in the mid-1960s. The next stage was the Super Stallion, which entered service in 1981.

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a Lockheed Martin Co., Stratford, Connecticut, is awarded a $21,689,142 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order (N00019-19-F-2972) against a previously issued basic ordering ...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter assigned to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit crashed at sea Monday in the Central Command area of operations, the Navy said.