Spares fro VH-71 vital in sustaining Canada’s Cormorant fleet

Canada was able to make its Cormorant fleet available for search and rescue duties for extended periods at one or more operating bases thanks to spare parts it bought from the canceled VH-71 program.

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Documents, seen by the Citizen, wrote that the “injection of a large quantity of repairable parts into the asset pool has been critical in mitigating major technical challenges with the fleet.”

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