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]

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The U.S. Coast Guard has received the first of 45 new MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter airframes from Sikorsky, initiating a program to extend the fleet's service life into the 2040s.
This service life extension is critical because the current fleet of 45 MH-60T helicopters is approaching its 20,000-flight-hour operational limit, with most expected to reach this cap by fiscal 2028.
Under a $374 million contract, Sikorsky will deliver the 45 new airframes from 2027, with the Coast Guard rebuilding each helicopter by transferring existing components onto the new structures to maintain mission capabilities.

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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.

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.

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