CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — It’s perhaps a most fitting tribute: The first active-duty Marine Corps operational squadron to get the CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter became the last one to fly it and ...

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 ...

While many are familiar with the U.S. Army's Boeing CH-47 Chinook tandem-rotor helicopter, the U.S. Marine Corps used a different model, the Boeing Vertol CH-46 "Phrog" Sea Knight, which it began ...

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 ...

Zerbin Singleton can now add one more accomplishment to his remarkable life story. Singleton, 27, overcame incredible odds and family hardships to become a college football player at the U.S. Naval ...

The CH-46F has been restored and flown to its new home at the National US Armed Forces Museum (NUSAFM). On Dec. 3, 2024, the freshly repainted CH-46F, now registered as N7682F, flew to its new home at ...

A CH-46E Sea Knight throws out infrared countermeasures during 2009 tests at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. From 1966 to 2015, if the order was “Send in the Marines!” chances are they ...

My first experience finding a submarine in its natural habitat was west of San Diego, California, in 2002. I was copiloting a Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight (the “Phrog”) with a fellow lieutenant, Brian, off ...

After 51 years of service with the US Marine Corps, the Boeing-Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight flew for the last time 1 August at a retirement ceremony in Chantilly, Virginia. The “Phrog,” which made its ...

Piasecki has inducted the first CH-46Es for upgrade to CHI-107-IIIs under a joint program with Columbia Helicopters. Piasecki Aircraft has inducted the first four CH-46 helicopters to be upgraded ...