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 replacement airframes from Sikorsky.
This initiative is part of a service life extension program to keep the MH-60T fleet operational into the 2040s.
The current fleet of 45 MH-60T helicopters is nearing its 20,000-hour operational limit, with 90% expected to reach it by fiscal 2028.
Under a $374 million contract, Sikorsky will deliver the airframes, which the Coast Guard will use to rebuild existing helicopters by transferring components to the new hulls.

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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.