So I just got the mission to take a Virtibird to Fort Strong from Elder Maxson. I go to where its supposed to be and its not there, I figure its a bug and i go up and down with the other one to see if it will load..nothing. After trying this and reloading a few times I say screw it and jump off the Perdwyn.... and and what do I see... a crashed Vertibird in the water and the pilot walking around up to his waste saying some nonsense to me, lol it's hillarious and terrible at the same time, of course my last save was about an hour before.

It is a bug. I usually have to save, exit the game and then reload to get the vertibird to appear.

So there always a crashed burning Vertibird underneath the Perdwyn with the pilot walking around it like nothing happened? Eh, I figured It was blown up while I was talking to Maxson in the front.

Xedit Well I just got back to this part and sure enough The Vertibird still isn't where it was supposed to be on the Perdwyn I dropped off the ship and found it was parked on the ground directly underneath still in one piece this time though.