Bell Boeing V-22

The V-22 Program Office is starting a new study looking at long-term modernization of the tiltrotor.

An updated model of the Bell V-280 shows that the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) design is evolving from the demonstrator that won the competition.

Naval Air Systems Command announced March 8 that it had issued a flight clearance for the fleet after all operators grounded their V-22s following a November 2023 crash.

The Osprey will take over fleet replenishment duties for Naval Air Force Atlantic beginning in 2025.

The realities of higher costs and program risk may not be enough to overcome the potential benefit of new technology.

While the Pentagon remains vexed on the November crash, the U.S. Navy says progress is being made on the clutch issue.

The Osprey fleet has since at least 2010 been plagued by an issue of hard-clutch engagement in the proprotor gearbox, which has caused multiple incidents.

For the second time in less than two years, the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey fleet will return to flight after a grounding with a patchwork of mitigations.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

The Pentagon will lift its more than 90-day grounding of the Bell Boeing V-22 tiltrotor fleet, the head of a House committee investigating the aircraft announced March 6.

A Boeing acquisition of all or part of Spirit AeroSystems could be, if consummated, a surprise coup for the former’s defense business.

Speaking at Singapore Airshow, the commander of the U.S. Navy’s Logistics Group Western Pacific commented on the ongoing grounding of the CMV-22 Osprey fleet

Leonardo Helicopters is completing the final assembly of its Next-Generation Civil Tiltrotor Demonstrator ahead of an expected first flight in the coming weeks.

Air Force Special Operations Command is reviewing the role of its CV-22 fleet amid a three-month-long grounding of the fleet following a fatal crash.

The DARPA competition seeks an aircraft that can take off and land vertically and cruise faster than today’s helicopters and tiltrotors.

Rescue crews were searching for five missing U.S. Marines after locating the wreckage of a downed Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter on Feb. 7.

The U.S. Navy’s CMV-22B fleet is not “operationally suitable” because of failures of many of its subsystems.

Operators of the Bell Boeing V-22 have been replacing the input quill assembly (IQA) on the aircraft’s proprotor gearbox regularly.

The entire Bell Boeing V-22 fleet has been grounded.

The U.S. Air Force has shifted search operations for the remaining missing crewmembers of a V-22 that crashed near Japan into a recovery mission.

Japan has grounded its fleet of six MV-22s in response to the crash and Defense Minister Minoru Kihara said that the U.S. military should take the same action.

A U.S Air Force Bell/Boeing CV-22 Osprey has crashed into the waters off southwestern Japan, killing at least one of the eight on board.

A reporter riding on a Grumman C-2A considers what is in store for future aircraft carrier delivery.

A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 was damaged and one crewmember injured in a hard landing near Nellis AFB, Nevada, on Oct. 24.

The settlement includes a $1.539 million payment to whistleblowers who sued Boeing on behalf of the U.S. Defense Department for allegedly making false claims.