helicopter | Bell Helicopter | Helicopter | Budgie the Little Helicopter | Helicopter rotor | CHC Helicopter | Sea King helicopter | Helicopter Heroes | 2012 Kenya Police helicopter crash | Yas'ur helicopter crashed | Utility helicopter | Sichuan Lantian Helicopter Company Limited | Piasecki H-25 | Perenco Oil Helicopter crash | Light Helicopter Experimental | helicopter rotor | Helicopter Rope Suspension Technique | Helicopter Girl | Firth Helicopter | Enstrom Helicopter Corporation | Bell helicopter | Attack helicopter | attack helicopter | 430 Tactical Helicopter Squadron | 1997 Israeli helicopter disaster |
HMX-1 was commissioned on December 1, 1947 and based in MCAS Quantico, Virginia because of its relative proximity to the Sikorsky and Piasecki plants in Connecticut, and to the Marine Corps schools where most of the original personnel would come.