CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — It’s perhaps a most fitting tribute: The first active-duty Marine Corps operational squadron to get the CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter became the last one to fly it and ...

After more than 50 years of service to the U.S. Marine Corps, the CH-46 Sea Knight, affectionately known as the “Phrog,” jumped into the history books Aug. 1, with a final flight to the ...

The CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter is an extremely versatile aircraft, but has suffered problems in the past. Last August, the US Navy and Marines grounded its entire fleet of 291 Sea Knights after ...

The MV-22Bs have been a workhorse for the Marines since they replaced the Corps’ CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters, which were retired in 2015. Marine Col. Matthew Danner, head of the 31st Marine ...

A Marine Corps CH-46 crashed in 2001, killing three Marines and injuring two. The Marine Corps relies on the Sea Knight, a bus-like helicopter with two large rotors, as its primary combat assault ...

(Matt York/AP) SANTIAGO, Chile — The Boeing CH-46 medium-lift helicopter, retired from service in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, may get a new lease on life, this time with the Argentine Air Force.

A CH-46 helicopter was also involved in a May 1996 collision oftwo Marine helicopters at Camp Lejeune. Fourteen people died in theaccident. The Marines' aging fleet of CH-46s was scheduled to be ...

WASHINGTON – The Navy and Marine Corps grounded their fleet of 291 CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters after an inspection of one in North Carolina revealed a crack in part of the rotor assembly.

Fast forward to 1962, the Marines ordered the HRB (later renamed the CH-46) Sea Knight. With a rear cargo ramp, a speed of 166 mph, and the capacity to carry 4,000 pounds of cargo or 22 troops ...

Six Marines and a Navy corpsman died. Eleven Marines survived. The Vietnam-era CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter sank in 40 seconds into 3,900 feet of water 14 miles from Point Loma while on a routine ...