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The Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (USD(AT&L)) approved the Navy\u2019s request for the CH-53K King Stallion heavy lift helicopter program to enter into the Production and Deployment April 4.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe have just successfully launched the production of the most powerful helicopter our nation has ever designed. This incredible positive step function in capability is going to revolutionize the way our nation conducts business in the battlespace by ensuring a substantial increase in logistical throughput into that battlespace. I could not be prouder of our government-contractor team for making this happen,\u201d said Col Hank Vanderborght, U.S. Marine Corps program manager for the Naval Air Systems Command\u2019s Heavy Lift Helicopters program, PMA-261.<\/span><\/p>\n Production is expected to begin in June 2017 at Sikorsky\u2019s facility in Stratford, Conn. The recurring flyaway cost for the CH-53K is $87.1M. Recurring flyaway costs are the average cost for all production lots of aircraft, engines, contract\/government furnished equipment, and engineering change orders. <\/span><\/p>\n I started out in Navy helos, and always had soft spot for them. Son #1 is Air Force (said he spent enough time in the Navy growing up) and wrenched on their H-53 Pave Low helos in Iraq and several places whose name ends in -stan.\u00a0\u00a0He’s glad to see the big birds are still in production. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n More Here<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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