In its cockpit, our CH-53K avionics management system delivers a new level of flight and mission avionics management capabilities that complement the unique potential of this aircraft. Jay Hernandez, a Marine Corps spokesman, told Marine Corps Times. The CH-53K King Stallion is setting new standards in capability, performance and reliability for the heavy-lift mission. He spent time learning about the CH-53K’s superior maintainability and reliability. The current recurring flyaway cost for the CH-53K is just under 91.6 million per aircraft, Maj. WHI Global, LLC (WHI), an integrated manufacturer of metal and composite structures for the aerospace & defense. The main improvements are the new engine and cockpit layout. He popped into a cockpit, explored the cabin, learned about the digital-build process, and got up close to a 400-pound CH-53K rotor blade. WHI Global will produce the Cockpit Escape Hatches, Transition to Cabin Joining Kit and Transition to Tail Rotor Pylon Joining Kit for Sikorsky’s CH-53K Heavy Lift helicopter By DA Reporter /. The CH-53K helicopter is a general redesign of the CH-53E Super Stallion. Marine Corps and Jim Taiclet, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin, both made their first visits to Sikorsky’s primary manufacturing facility recently to see how Sikorsky is using Digital Transformation to build 200 King Stallions for the Marines.īerger walked along the final assembly line to see four CH-53K production aircraft in various stages of build. Features of the CH-53K helicopter include a modern glass cockpit fly-by-wire flight controls fourth-generation rotor blades with anhedral tips a low. Sikorsky is ramping up production of the new CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopter and two special guests paid a visit to Stratford, Connecticut, to check on the digital manufacturing process. The CH-53K is a new-build, y-by-wire, dual-piloted, three-engine, heavy lift helicopter slated to replace the aging CH-53E.

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