U.S. Air Force Lifts CV-22 Grounding

Brian Everstine September 02, 2022
U.S. Air Force CV-22s fly in formation in the Middle East in January 2021.
Credit: U.S. Air Force
U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) on Sept. 2 returned its CV-22 fleet to flight after more than two weeks of grounding because of an issue with the tiltrotor’s gearbox for which the service still does not have a root cause. The Air Force was the sole service to ground the Bell-Boeing...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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