Rotorcraft manufacturer Bell will continue producing the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor at least through the end of 2027, spanning a critical gap for the company’s production line in Amarillo, Texas.

The island is a few miles northwest of Okinawa’s Motobu peninsula. A spokesman for the Okinawa Defense Bureau, an arm of Japan’s Defense Ministry, identified the aircraft as an MV-22 Osprey.

CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AP) — Over a New Mexico training range named the Hornet, two Osprey aircraft speed 100 feet off the ground, banking hard over valleys and hills as they close in on a dusty ...

Maj. Barry Moore shows a photo of a V-22 Osprey aircraft at a news conference, July 20, 1992, at Quantico Marine Air Station in Quantico, Va., after an experimental V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft ...

The Osprey is back in the air after being grounded for months following a crash last November that killed eight U.S. service members in Japan. But there are still questions as to whether it should be.

But it’s also doing a study to decide whether to “significantly modernize the MV/22 and/or begin the process to move forward” to a next-generation assault aircraft, Lt. Gen. Bradford Gering ...

The Pentagon bought the V-22 Osprey more than 30 years ago as a lethal hybrid, with the speed of an airplane and the maneuverability of a helicopter. Since then, 64 personnel have been killed and ...

Osprey flight engineer Tech Sgt. Brett McGee sits on the back open ramp of the V-22 and holds the aircraft's .50 caliber gun as the crew flies over a New Mexico training range Oct. 9, 2024, near ...

Osprey flight engineer Tech Sgt. Brett McGee sits on the back open ramp of the V-22 and holds the aircraft's .50 caliber gun as the crew flies over a New Mexico training range Oct. 9, 2024, near ...

FILE - White suited workers investigate the crash scene of a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey at the Avra Valley Airport, north of Tucson, Ariz., April 9, 2000. A Marine Corps aircraft attempting to land ...

(AP Photo/Jeff Dean)ASSOCIATED PRESSFILE - Wreckage of a U.S. military MV-22 Osprey is seen in shallow waters off Nago, Okinawa, southern Japan, Dec. 14, 2016, after it crash landed.

Families of four of the five Marines killed when their MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft crashed in California in June of 2022 filed a federal lawsuit Thursday, May 23, 2024, alleging that the ...