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The plant’s production of Chinook helicopters has fallen to around 20 a year, from 60 in 2021 and 2022. That's the “minimum sustainable rate.”
Boeing Corp.'s top helicopter officials say the company needs more orders, or it will have to plan for the closing of the two main assembly lines at its Ridley Park complex along the Delaware River, the largest heavy-manufacturing employer in the Philadelphia area.
An unknown number of Ospreys remain grounded after officials ordered a retrofit in February to address a safety issue.
The US government and industry aim to complete the replacement of affected clutch parts by autumn. The Japanese V-22 fleet is expected to follow the same procedure to avoid the the same problem arising.
US marines filing into an MV-22 on off the coast of North Carolina during Exercise ‘Bold Alligator' in 2012. USS Kearsarge Boeing's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania V-22 factory, which produces the fuselage and other major equipment for the joint ...