Rob Koon, NAVAIR Public Affairs,
NAVAIR Patuxent River: Like the Phoenix renewed, the first retired CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter to come out of the desert was reborn and returned to the fight at Marine Corps Air Station New River June 29.
Marine Heavy Lift Squadron 464, the “Condors,” received the aircraft.
This Super Stallion helicopter and two others spent more than 11 years in storage before arriving at the Naval Air Systems Command Depot, Cherry Point, N.C., last August from the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center, located at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Ariz. They arrived in pieces, large pieces, on-board two Air Force C-5 Galaxy cargo aircraft.
That
