Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King
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The Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King is an American twin-engine anti-submarine warfare helicopter designed and built by Sikorsky Aircraft. A landmark design, it was one of the first ASW rotorcraft to use turbos
A U.S. Navy SH-3H Sea King
SH-3 Sea King dipping a sonar, 1983
XHSS-2 Sea King prototype
SH-3As of HS-6 above Kearsarge in the early 1960s
Marine One
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Marine One is the call sign of any United States Marine Corps aircraft carrying the president of the United States. As of 2026, after the White House South Lawn helipad was constructed, the call sign
Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King
…United States Marine Corps's HMX-1 unit, are used as the official helicopters of the President of the United States; in this capacity, the call sign 'Marine One' is used by the helicopter currently occupied by the President. As of 2012, a replacement helicopter fleet for the Sea King was pending under the VXX…
VH-92 test landing on South Lawn
A VH-34D presidential helicopter on the South Lawn of the White House in 1961
A former VH-3 Marine One at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
Inside a VH-3D Marine One transporting President Barack Obama (seated with back to camera), seated with National Security Advisor James L. Jones, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (left to right).