Airframe Delivery Launches Coast Guard's MH-60T Extension Program

About 90 percent of the service’s Jayhawk helicopter fleet is expected to reach its 20,000-hour maximum operational life limit by fiscal 2028.

Kimberly Johnson

Monday, December 04, 2023 at 03:47 PM ET

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Sikorsky delivers the first MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter replacement airframe to the U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday, November 30, as part of a service life extension program for the fleet. [Courtesy: Sikorsky]

Key Takeaways:

The U.S. Coast Guard has received the first of 45 new MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter airframes from Sikorsky.
This program, valued at $374 million, aims to extend the service life of the MH-60T fleet into the 2040s, as the current aircraft are nearing their 20,000-hour operational limit.
The new airframes will replace the aging structures of the existing helicopters, with components, cockpits, and engines being transferred by the Coast Guard Aviation Logistics Center to rebuild each aircraft.

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The U.S. Coast Guard has received the first of 45 MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter replacement airframes as part of a program to extend the aircraft’s service life into the 2040s, according to Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky.

A workhorse of the Coast Guard, the MH-60T all-weather, medium-range recovery helicopter has been used by the service for rapid-response missions since the 1990s. Its airframe’s maximum operational life limit is 20,000 flight hours.