Scarim Coral said:
Don't know, maybe Nick still got hold of it but unlikely given to the ending of the Winter Soldier film.
Not entirely, one thing that Nick has in common in both the movie version (based on the Ultimate version) and the comics version is that he's supposed to be a paranoid, master planner. He can't see everything coming, but tends to have redundant plans for everything, including "end of the world" events. Odds are he probably had a plan for "what happens if SHIELD is destroyed by something I don't see coming" and the seeds planted to re-build the organization. Something similar happened in the comics, for a number of years there was a "something is wrong in SHIELD" build up which lead to Nick Fury keeping an eye on his own organization, eventually things "got real" and there was a whole "Nick Fury Vs. SHIELD" event where he pretty much took down the entire organization. In the comics he resisted help from other super heroes because "This is SHIELD's mess, SHIELD will clean it up". He indeed rebuilt it, and for all intents and purposes aside from some comments about it "being rebuilt, and weaker than it was before... for the moment" nothing much changed.
I expect we'll certainly see more Helicarriers even if I think Cap destroying the three in the movie once they got control back was stupid. To put it bluntly the things get wrecked in the comics all the time.
SHIELD is also international it wouldn't surprise me if the other Helicarrier was overseas, or involved in some other event. Hydra which might not have been able to subvert that one might have wanted it far away until it got it's three into the air. If I had to guess, it would probably be over London helping deal with the aftermath of "Dark World" which seemed to leave some alien monsters around, and is the last place an alien ship was spotted. If I was writing it, I'd say that's where it is.
It's also possible it was too badly damaged after "Avengers" given the huge beating it took, and it was decommissioned and scrapped for parts. Sure, you wouldn't just retire something like that because a "new gen" version comes out when your dealing with something in a league of it's own to begin with, but there is a point at which damage is just going to be too extreme for practical recovery. I mean it lost jets, got shot at by aliens, had The Hulk go on a rampage through it... I think it hit a building at one point too didn't it?
