Navy Flies into New Era with Retirement of H-3 Sea King

Navy NewsStand ^ | Jan 31, 2006 | Photographer’s Mate Airman Apprentice Seth Scarlett

[SandRat]

060127-N-5307M-056 Norfolk, Va. (Jan. 27, 2006) - The H-3 Sea King takes its final operational flight in the skies above Norfolk, Va., for their final flight before being replaced by the MH-60S Seahawk helicopter. With the retirement of the H-3, HSC-2 will become the East Coast Fleet replacement Squadron. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Tristan Miller (RELEASED)

[SandRat]

A page of Naval Aviation History is Turned.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[Red Badger]

Seahawks?.........No STEELERS?...........

[opbuzz]

The H-3 was also long known as "Marine One", although the USMC only had a few at HMX-1.

[clawrence3]

Obviously, the Marine One squadron will continue to fly until the new Lockheed model takes over:

http://www.teamus101.com/index.cfm

[Rummyfan]

Geez, what's next? Is the Corps going to retire the CH-46?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The Canadians are still flying Sea Kings, I believe.

[MD_Willington_1976]

DNDCA is doing the same...No more Sea Kings

The Sikorsky H-92 Superhawk was chosen to replace the venerable fleet of Sea Kings. The first of 28 new helicopters, dubbed CH-148 Cyclone, will be delivered to the CF in 2008.

[MD_Willington_1976]

They're playing with CH-47, H-92, S-70, EH-101, & CH146 Griffon.

[Drew68]

MH-60S One badass chopper.

At any rate, the H-60 platform is the way to go. Extremely versatile.

Myself, I'm a bit fond of Foxtrots...

...and Hotels:

[llevrok]

Two seahawks - both can fly

[SandRat]

All I get is:

[ferri]

they still have some, but don't fly them very often, i read an article not long ago that said they need something like 7 hours mantience after one hour of flight. (i wish i could find the article!!!) i did find this one:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/cdnmilitary/seaking.html

[llevrok]

Photo bucket links. Most times it works.

Oh well.

[ferri]

well duh...there it is and i was being way too nice...lol

"The Sea Kings require 30 hours of maintenance for every hour of flight, and they are unavailable for operations 40 per cent of the time."

[Sam Cree]

Did you guys use these things? It looks familiar to me in white and red?

[cmsgop]

And the New Marine One.....

[cmsgop]

And here is Hugo Chavez new bird, "The Floppy Enchilada"

[Ramius]

Yup. Not as common as the classic old H-52, but the CG had some H-3's for a long time. The H-3 was really big. Too big to land on the little flight decks of most of the ships, so they were pretty much all shore-based.