FROM BONEYARD TO BRAND NEW: HOW ERICKSON GAVE LIFE TO THE H-53 HELOS
In 2015, The Marines, Navy and Naval Air Systems Command concluded that in order to meet emerging mission requirements, the MH-53 heavy-lift aircraft must be added back to the fleet and re-furbished for reentry. But the helicopters have not been in production for some time, sitting in the Arizona desert since 2004 un-operational.