Boeing Helicopters
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Boeing Helicopters is a US aircraft manufacturer, part of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems.
It was created as Boeing Vertol when the Piasecki Helicopter company of Morton, Pa. was acquired by Boeing in 1960, the Vertol name was an abbreviation for Vertical takeoff and landing. The company was responsible for the design and production of the CH-46 Sea Knight and the CH-47 Chinook.
The factory is in Ridley Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia.
Mass Transit
For much of the 1970s, Boeing Vertol entered the railroad rolling stock market in an attempt to keep government-funded contracts in the wake of the Vietnam War. During this period, Boeing Vertol manufactured the Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit system for West Virginia University, the 2400 series Chicago 'L' cars for the Chicago Transit Authority, and the US Standard Light Rail Vehicle (marketed as the Boeing LRV). It was the last vehicle, an attempt at a standardized light rail vehicle promoted by the Urban Mass Transit Administration, that led to the company's ending rail production due to a myriad of problems which cost Boeing and the vehicle's two buyers (authorities in Boston and San Francisco) millions and led to premature retirements of the vehicles.
It adopted its current name in 1987. When Boeing acquired McDonnell Douglas, the former Mesa, Arizona operations of Hughes Helicopters were merged into Boeing Helicopters.
Boeing Vertol products
- CH-46 Sea Knight - also known as CH-113 Labrador
- UH-46 Sea Knight
- CH-47 Chinook
- V-22 Osprey
- CH-21 Shawnee
- AH-64 Apache
- US Standard Light Rail Vehicle (aka the Boeing LRV)
- Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit
- Boeing-Vertol 2400 series LRV - Chicago L cars
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