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24 March 1982 XV-15 demonstrated at NASA Langley, Virginia.
26 March 1982 Secretary of the Navy John Lehman flies XV-15 at
Quantico USMC Air Station, Virginia.
29-30 March 1982 XV-15 demonstrated at Davison Army Air Field,
Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
31 March 1982 XV-15 displayed at Pentagon.
7 June 1982 Bell Helicopter and Boeing Vertol announces teaming
agreement to propose a tilt rotor aircraft for the Joint
Services Advanced Vertical Lift Aircraft (JVX) Program
competition.
8 July 1982 XV-15 low level nap-of-the-earth and evasive maneuver
flight evaluations at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona.
July 1982 XV-15 flight demonstration at Yuma, Arizona.
2, 4, 5 August 1982 XV-15 demonstrates tilt rotor shipboard operations
onboard USS Tripoli (LPH 10) in waters off the coast of
southern California... . Fifty-four takeoffs and landings
completed.
14 December 1982 Ten service-specific missions established for the proposed
joint services aircraft in a Joint Services Operational
Requirement (JSOR) document. This led to the establishment
of the joint services tilt rotor, or JVX program. The
JVX program marked the first time that an aircraft had
been assigned a multimission role to serve all four services.
17 February 1983 Bell-Boeing Vertol proposes a tilt rotor aircraft to the U.S.
Navy for the JVX Program.
19-24 May 1983 LCDR John C. Ball, USN, evaluates the potential of the
tilt rotor aircraft to perform combat SAR and external lift
applications. Demonstrated over-water rescue and cargo
hookup capabilities at Dallas Naval Air Station, Texas.
10 October 1983 Completion of XV-15 military mission evaluation tests at
Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma, Arizona.
8 June 1984 Naval Air Systems Command awarded Bell and Boeing
contract for second stage of JVX tilt rotor preliminary
design.