Vehicle I-D: End of Days for the Sea Ranger

After more than five decades, the U.S. Navy plans on retiring their aged fleet of TH-57 Sea Rangers in 2022-23.   It’s interesting that the Sea Ranger is being retired, as in 2019 a report came out about the U.S. Navy buying new TH-57 Sea Ranger flight simulators. 

Video by Julie Ziegenhorn, TH-57 Naval Air Station (NAS) Whiting Field, Florida, February 2020:

Army Kiowas and Navy Sea Rangers are both based on the Bell 206 JetRanger.  The U.S. Navy began using the TH-57 in 1968.

U.S. Navy photo.

Hovering over a new outlying landing field, NAS Whiting Field, January 2019.

U.S. Navy photo by Ensign Antonio More.

TH-57Cs over Pensacola, Florida, February 2017.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Karlton Rebenstorf.

Pre-flight checks on a TH-57 Sea Ranger, June 2014.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Karlton Rebenstorf.

USN photo by Jay Cope.

August 2012, Sea Rangers crammed together in a hanger on NAS Whiting Field, in preparation for Tropical Storm Isaac.

USN photo.

NAS Whiting Field, Florida, December 2008.

USN photo Lieutenant Michelle Parkington.

TH-57 carrying Santa visits Bennett C. Russell Elementary School, December 2007.

USN photo by Gary Nichols.

August 2006, TH-57 lands on Helicopter Landing Trainer (HLT) IX-514 Baylander.

USN photo.

Landing on the USS Lexington (AVT-16), October 1985.

Photo by Don S. Montgomery.

TH-57A instrument panel, May 1984.

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