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Boeing Helicopters is a US aircraft manufacturer, part of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems . It was created as Boeing Vertol when the Piasecki Helicopter company of Morton, Pa. was acquired by Boeing in 1960 . The company was responsible for the design and production of the CH-46 Sea Knight and the CH-47 Chinook . The factory is in Ridley Township, Pennsylvania , a suburb of Philadelphia . As a Defense Conversion project in the mid 1970s, Boeing Vertol built the US Standard Light Rail Vehicle (popularly called the Boeing LRV), an attempt at a standardized Light Rail vehicle promoted by the Urban Mass Transit Administration purchased by transit systems in Boston and San Francisco . As a new design from a company with no previous experience in building rail transit equipment, the Boeing LRVs were considered expensive and unreliable; they were nicknamed "Boeing Bathtubs" for their off-white Fiberglass interiors which darkened after exposure to sunlight. As a result of these problems, no other transit systems were willing to order the LRV, and the product was quickly dropped. Prior to the LRV, Boeing Vertol also constructed the 2400 series Chicago 'L' cars for the Chicago Transit Authority and the Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit system for West Virginia University . It adopted its current name in 1987 . When Boeing acquired McDonnell Douglas , the former Mesa , Arizona operations of Hughes Helicopters were merged into Boeing Helicopters. BOEING VERTOL PRODUCTS
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