USAF Plans Next Round Of V-22 Clutch Fixes; No Root Cause Found

A U.S. Air Force CV-22 lands at Goodfellow AFB, Texas, in March 2023.

Credit: USAF
DAYTON, Ohio—The U.S. Air Force is planning the next phase of input quill assembly (IQA) replacements on its fleet of CV-22 Ospreys after finishing a first round, as all of the tiltrotor operators continue to look for a root cause of the gearbox problem affecting the fleet. The Air Force, Marine...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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