The Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) has grounded all 52 of its CV-22 Ospreys until further notice because of an "increased number of safety incidents" involving a mishap with the aircraft ...
The search for the remains of a missing Air Force crewmember from a CV-22 Osprey crash off the coast of Japan has ended after over 40 days. The extensive search effort involved personnel and assets ...
Two days after Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) grounded its fleet of CV-22 aircraft following incidents involving the aircraft’s clutch, the U.S. Marine Corps says it has no plan to ...
From helicopter takeoff to airplane flight, the CV-22 Osprey defies every expectation. Join the 20th Special Operations ...
The decision to resume CV-22 Osprey flight operations at Yokota Air Base, Japan, is based on a meticulous, data-driven approach, complemented by rigorous simulator training sessions for the crews.
The incidents took place on Aug. 17 and Aug. 22, 2023 at Inyokern, California, and the Melrose Air Force Range, New Mexico, respectively. Fortunately, the did not result in any fatalities. Two ...
So far, this hasn’t been a good year for the CV-22 and MV-22 Osprey aircraft. The same issue that had determined AFSOC (Air Force Special Operations Command) to ground its entire Osprey fleet earlier ...
In-flight cockpit and aerial refueling footage of a U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey and C-130 Air Tanker during the 75th ...
The V-22 Osprey has always been a bit of an oddball among combat aircraft. Its tiltrotor engines left it in a curious corner of aviation design, neither a proper helicopter nor a conventional ...
With the eyes of the military firmly fixed on other tiltrotor aircraft currently being developed, one would have thought the existing V-22 Osprey is kind of on its way out the door. But that’s hardly ...
Bell has finished the first nacelle modifications to a US Air Force CV-22 Osprey, part of a multi-year effort to improve the maintainability of the US military’s V-22 tiltrotors. The company completed ...
The remains of five service members from the Nov. 29 U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey crash off Japan’s Yakushima Island have been recovered according to an Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) ...