27 June 2022 Fleet Readiness Center East marks maintenance firsts with V-22 repairs MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. - Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) is gearing up to return an MV-22 Osprey to the fleet after conducting a wing-off stow ring replacement on the aircraft, the first completion of this procedure by a naval aviation depot. In another inaugural depot-level...
27 April 2022 FRCE V-22 team, lead earn dual recognition in NAVAIR awards MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. - During an event live-streamed from Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) headquarters at Patuxent River, Maryland, the Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) V-22 Aircraft Integrated Product Team (IPT) earned the 2022 NAVAIR Commander’s Award for Best...
21 April 2022 Tuttle Award recognizes excellence on FRCE’s V-22 line MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. - The Institute for Defense and Business (IDB) presented Andrew Rock, Fleet Readiness Center East's V-22 Branch Head, with the 2022 GEN William G.T. Tuttle, Jr. Award for Business Acumen in Defense and Government during an April 13 ceremony at the FRCE...
30 March 2022 FRCE training assists WESTPAC in standing up V-22 PMI line MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERY POINT, N.C. - Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) recently facilitated a training that will assist Fleet Readiness Center Western Pacific (FRC WESTPAC), located at Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan, to stand up a planned maintenance interval (PMI) line for V-22 Osprey...
03 September 2021 Fleet Readiness Center East Takes On New V-22 Workload Fleet Readiness Center East has conducted modification and Planned Maintenance Interval (PMI) events for Navy and Marine Corps V-22 aircraft since 2009, when the depot inducted its first Osprey. Now, the facility will provide that same support to Marine Helicopter Squadron 1 (HMX-1). The HMX-1...
21 March 2021 Fleet Readiness Center East sets Focus on Reduced Turnaround Time for H-53 MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. - Following a string of successful outcomes in reducing maintenance, repair and overhaul turnaround times on V-22 Osprey aircraft, Fleet Readiness Center East has set its sights on improving turnaround times for the H-53 heavy lift helicopter...
23 October 2020 New Equipment Improves Fleet Readiness Center East Support of Critical V-22 Component New test equipment at Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) has positioned the facility to help alleviate one of the top degraders to V-22 Osprey readiness. The new test stand, which checks the functionality of the V-22 swashplate actuator, cuts testing time in half to produce “ready for issue”...
10 September 2020 Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support Addresses V-22 Supply Concern Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Weapon Systems Support (WSS) stood up its Logistics Cell (LOGCELL) in 2016 to bring vendor stakeholders, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), fleet mission partners, and various cross-functional teams together in a room filled with interactive dashboards to...