The Vietnam-era CH-46 Sea Knight -- one of the military's most storied helicopters -- is older than most of the men who fly it today, and it is showing its age. The CH-46 has been beset in recent ...

The Boeing CH-46 is living on borrowed time. First brought into action in 1964 and used extensively in Vietnam by the US Navy and Marine Corps, it has been earmarked for phasing out, to be replaced by ...

Camp Pendleton said goodbye to a wartime workhorse that time and technology finally ran down: The CH-46 snub-nosed Sea Knight helicopter, fondly known as the “Battle Phrog.” The Pendleton-based CH-46 ...

After more than 50 years of service to the U.S. Marine Corps, the CH-46 Sea Knight, affectionately known as the “Phrog,” jumped into the history books Aug. 1, with a final flight to the Smithsonian’s ...

The CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter is an extremely versatile aircraft, but has suffered problems in the past. Last August, the US Navy and Marines grounded its entire fleet of 291 Sea Knights after ...

In February 2001, the Navy temporarily grounded the Sea Knight fleet after discovering a crack in another part of the rotor assembly. At the time, the Marine Corps lamented the degrading state of the ...