{"id":63315,"date":"2023-02-15T17:40:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T17:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2023\/02\/15\/us-army-replaces-problematic-engine-part-on-chinooks\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:50:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:50:04","slug":"us-army-replaces-problematic-engine-part-on-chinooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2023\/02\/15\/us-army-replaces-problematic-engine-part-on-chinooks\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army replaces problematic engine part on Chinooks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Army has nearly finished swapping out a leaky part in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/aaaa\/2022\/04\/05\/us-army-shelves-advanced-ch-47f-rotor-blades-due-to-issues-in-testing\/\" target=\"_blank\">CH-47 Chinook helicopter<\/a> engines that led to a number of engine fires, according to the Army Aviation and Missile Command Aviation Branch maintenance officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army expects to have fixed all affected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2021\/06\/29\/house-appropriators-want-more-cargo-helos-for-us-army-in-fy22\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chinook helicopters<\/a> in the fleet by the end of February, Chief Warrant Officer 5 Patrick O\u2019Neill told Defense News in a recent statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of August 2022, the Army grounded the entire fleet of CH-47s while it fixed the fuel leaks. Honeywell provides the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2016\/10\/03\/honeywell-takes-chinook-engine-to-next-level\/\" target=\"_blank\">T-55 engine<\/a> for the Boeing-manufactured Chinook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service discovered that, during routine depot maintenance, Army maintainers had installed O-rings \u2014 meant to prevent leaks between engine parts \u2014 that did not meet \u201cHoneywell design specifications\u201d and were not supplied by the company, according to a statement from Honeywell issued at the time of the fleet grounding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The o-ring was not \u201cdefective,\u201d but was \u201can incorrect part not designed for that manifold,\u201d the Defense Logistics Agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Honeywell provided the spare parts for the T55 engine maintenance until February 2019; since then, the Army has taken over sustaining the engine within its own depots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of this transition, DLA said the military used an incorrect o-ring. 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