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.
Hovering over a new outlying landing field, NAS Whiting Field, January 2019.
TH-57Cs over Pensacola, Florida, February 2017.
Pre-flight checks on a TH-57 Sea Ranger, June 2014.
August 2012, Sea Rangers crammed together in a hanger on NAS Whiting Field, in preparation for Tropical Storm Isaac.
NAS Whiting Field, Florida, December 2008.
TH-57 carrying Santa visits Bennett C. Russell Elementary School, December 2007.
August 2006, TH-57 lands on Helicopter Landing Trainer (HLT) IX-514 Baylander.
Landing on the USS Lexington (AVT-16), October 1985.
TH-57A instrument panel, May 1984.
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