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Since 1966, Sikorsky's CH-53 series of helicopters has dominated the skies when Marines are piloting, and its many variants are the U.S. military's largest helicopters.

The CH-53 overall between 1967 and 2024, between all of the U.S. military branches and other nations that use it, has been the cause of roughly 180 accidents that have killed 761 people.

The CH-53Ks are set to replace the IAF’s aging Yasur helicopters, a modification of an earlier CH-53 variant that has served as the IAF’s primary transport platform for troops and equipment.

More recently, a 2020 Government Accountability Office report found that the CH-53Es were one of 26 military aircraft that did not meet their mission capable goals from Fiscal Years 2011 to 2021.

The CH-53 Super Stallion crashed Feb. 6, 2024, during a late night flight when it hit a mountain near Pine Valley, California, on its way back to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.

Tiger attack helicopters, NH90 medium-sized multi-role helicopters, CH-53 heavy transport aircraft, and EC135 light utility helicopters — totaling approximately 30 — will be redeployed to ...

Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary will engineer H-53 heavy-lift transport helicopters for the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and foreign military sales customers as part of a five-year ...

The five U.S. Marines who died after a military helicopter went down in the mountains near San Diego have been identified, ... the CH-53 had an average of 5.96 accidents per 100,000 hours of ...