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The V-22 tiltrotor is a revolutionary, vertical and short take-off and land (V/STOL), multi-purpose aircraft with excellent high-speed cruise performance. This advanced technology rotorcraft performs a wide range of V/STOL missions as effectively as a conventional helicopter, while equally capable of achieving the long-range cruise efficiencies of a tWithin this challenge, the Joint Services (USMC, USN, USAF, USA) specified in detail the operational requirements of the V-22. The joint requirement defined missions, airframe size constraints, payload handling, and other operational capabilities required to meet the needs of all the U.S. Military.win turboprop aircraft.  Six Full Scale Development (FSD) airframes of the V-22 (i.e. prototypes) were produced, c/n D0001 - D0006; only five were fully completed, the sixth never having its wings mated was used for ground live fire ballistics tests at NAWC China Lake. Twelve additional airframes assigned BuNos 164389 - 164400 were cancelled and never built.
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| Model | Year | History | | v-22 > CV-22 | 1997 | | | | v-22 > MV-22 | 1997 | Six Engineering Manufacturing & Development (EMD) MV-22 were ordered by USMC, but only four built; c/n D0007 - D0010; & two cancelled, (BuNo 1649 ...
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| C/N | Version | Built | History | | D0001 | | 1989 |  163911 : Bell-Boeing FSD MV-22; c/n D0001, ff 19Mar89; del USMC unk; wfu unk; preserved at MCAS New River, NC.
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D0002  | | 1989 | 163912 : Bell-Boeing FSD MV-22; c/n D0002, ff 09Aug89; del USMC as MV-22 163912 unk; WFU/SOC 2000? (unk); retired from flight test and used for live fire testing.
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| D0003 | | 1990 | 163913 : Bell-Boeing MV-22 FSD; c/n D0003. ff 06May90; del USMC as 163913 unk; Preserved at the American Helicopter Museum, West Chester, PA unk.
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| D0004 | | 1989 | 163914 : Bell-Boeing MV-22 FSD, c/n D0004, ff 21Dec89; del USMC as 163914; xfer HMX-1; w/o Crashed near MCAS Quantico, VA, 20Jul92, 3 military crew, 4 civilian passenger fatalities.
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| D0005 | | 1991 | 163915 : Bell-Boeing MV-22 FSD, c/n D0005, ff 11Jun91; asgd USMC BuNo 163914; w/o crashed on first flight, 11Jun91, airframe destroyed by fire, no fatalities.
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| D0006 | | 1991 | 163916 : Bell-Boeing MV-22 FSD, c/n D0006, aircraft not-completed; airframe used for live-fire tests.
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6 C/N found.
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