First CH-53K to fly soon.

via AINonline.

The first four flying versions of the U.S. Marine Corps’ next generation CH-53K helicopter wereadvancing through assembly at Sikorsky Aircraft’s West Palm Beach, Florida, facility earlier this year. “We’re well beyond the paper side of the aircraft. We’re building this thing,” Marine Col. Robert Pridgen, H-53 program manager, told reporters at the Navy League conference in April.

When I first read this I thought it was a non story but a closer look revealed that they're reporting from the Paris Air Show so I would imagine there is work going on behind the scenes to get Germany and Paris to consider buying the beast.