Everything about Boeing Vertol totally explained
Boeing Helicopters (now
Boeing Rotorcraft Systems) is a US aircraft manufacturer, part of
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. The factories are in
Ridley Township,
Pennsylvania, a suburb of
Philadelphia, and
Mesa, Arizona.
Background
Boeing Helicopters was created as
Boeing Vertol when the Vertol Aircraft Corporation (formerly
Piasecki Helicopter) company of
Morton, Pennsylvania 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. It became Boeing Helicopters in
1987, and adopted its current name later on.
When Boeing acquired
McDonnell Douglas, the former
Mesa,
Arizona operations of
Hughes Helicopters were merged into Boeing Helicopters. A year and a half later Boeing sold the civilian line of helicopters to
MD Helicopter Holdings Inc., an indirect subsidiary of the Dutch company, RDM Holding Inc.
As of
December 15,
2006 Columbia Helicopters, Inc of
Aurora, Oregon has purchased the
Type Certificate of the Boeing Vertol 107-II and Boeing Model 234 Commercial Chinook from Boeing. Currently the company is seeking FAA issuance of a Production Certificate to produce parts with eventual issuance of a PC to produce aircraft.
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.
Unlike the LRV failure, however, the company's subway car manufacturing program was relatively successful. By the late 1990s, their cars were still in use after more than twenty years. Among the reasons why the company left the subway business was that their competitors may have underbid on a key contract and the post-Vietnam War military build up provided the company with far more lucrative military contracts.
Boeing Vertol products
Rotorcraft
Rail
US Standard Light Rail Vehicle (aka the Boeing LRV)
Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit
Boeing Vertol 2400 series Rapid Transit Car - Chicago 'L' carsFurther Information
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