25-Mar-25 - The Bell Boeing Joint Program Office has been awarded a $590 million contract to deliver five additional CMV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft to the Navy, as part of a 44-aircraft procurement to replace the C-2A Greyhound carrier-on-board delivery fixed-wing aircraft #osprey
09-Apr-24 - The newly formed US Navy Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron VRM-40, based out of Norfolk on the East Coast and tasked with Carrier Onboard Delivery (COD) to the aircraft carriers, received its first assigned Bell/Boeing CMV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor #Osprey
29-Dec-22 - Rolls-Royce subsidiary in Indianapolis awarded a $74M Department of Defense contract for 28 AE1107C engines for the US Navy/Marines Osprey fleet #RollsRoyce
25-Nov-20 - US Navy new transport aircraft, the CMV-22B tilt-rotor, completed first operations aboard an aircraft carrier. Initial operational capability (IOC) planned for next year #refueling
02-Nov-20 - US Navy’ Air Test and Evaluation Squadron HX-21 completed a 10-day detachment aboard the amphibious transport dock USS New York (LPD 21, San Antonio-class) operating Marine MV-22B, Navy CMV-22B, USAF CMV-22B and Presidential Osprey tilt-rotors during 180 shipboard approaches and landings, totaling 45 hours of flight testing #LPD
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