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25th January 2018

… The KLu CH-47F fleet is operated by 298 Squadron based at Gilze-Rijen … December 14, to upgrade six Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu) CH-47F Chinook helicopters to the latest production standard from …

By Wim Das 19th July 2018

… (Royal Netherlands Air Force, RNLAF) took part with two CH-47 Chinooks and two AS532 Cougars. Together with Germany, the … on the LZ and they secured the site. Once the first Chinook had lifted the slung load, a second example picked up …

By Jerry Gunner 28th June 2018

… Back in the 1970s, Germany purchased 112 Sikorsky CH-53G helicopters for the Deutsches Heer (German Army), … their two biggest helicopters, Boeing with its iconic H-47 Chinook and Sikorsky with the CH-53K King Stallion. A …

By Jon Lake 19th July 2018

… national security capability posture for the future”. RAF Chinook helicopters land on HMS ‘Queen Elizabeth’ for the …

4th January 2018

… BOEING AND THE US Army plan to conduct flight trials of a CH-47D helicopter equipped with General Electric T408 turboshaft engines installed in place of the Chinook’s Honeywell T55-L-712s. The engines will be installed in a CH-47D operated by the Aviation Flight Test Directorate at …

17th May 2018

… days – May 26 and 27. Other notable highlights are the RAF Chinook display team (on May 26 only), the former Swiss Air …

14th June 2018

… These items were airlifted to the museum by an RAF Chinook and, after a long period in storage, repair and …

17th May 2018

… 20, when 77 helicopters were unloaded consisting of Boeing CH-47F Chinooks, AH-64E Apache Guardians, Sikorsky UH-60L/M … ‘shoot us down’ by firing laser pulses at us.” Twelve CH-47Fs are in Europe as part of the 1st ACB deployment. An … Chinooks in Europe. Chief Warrant Officer 3 Witt Taylor, a Chinook pilot with the B/2-227th, who had forward deployed …

By Robin Polderman 21st December 2017

… Former US Army CH-47D 88-00095 was transferred to the ROKAF during 2014 and … BOEING AND Korean Air are to partner on the South Korean Chinook Helicopter Upgrade Program, under a memorandum of … version is under consideration. The ROKA received 18 CH-47Ds between 1988 and 1990, with one being lost in a crash …

By BRUCE HALES-DUTTON 14th June 2018

… 50 per cent longer and 20 per cent wider than the Boeing Chinook’s. Its all-up weight would have been 25 per cent …

By Peter Cooper 14th December 2017

… The Chinook is nearing four decades of service with the RAF and … was made. The MOD wanted 33 HC1s for the RAF, based on the CH-47C variant, to replace the Westland Wessex. The first, … These became the HC2 variant (equivalent of the US Army CH-47D) with improved Lycoming T55-1-712 engines, a …

By Nigel Pittaway 24th May 2018

… similar to the way the Australian Army operates its CH- 47F Chinook and MRH90 battlefield helicopters, but a major shift …

17th May 2018

… Defence – Air Component also 19th & 20th, 16/3 ZH893 Chinook HC6A 27 Sqn, RAF. 20/3 71 & 87 Xingus 28F, French …

19th April 2018

… Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). The AFT will operate two CH-147F Chinook and four CH-146 Griffon helicopters in west Africa for 12 months, it …

10th May 2018

… Westland Puma tactical support helicopter has notched up 47 years since joining No 33 Squadron in June 1971. If it … load. The type, now in upgraded HC2 form, has notched up 47 years in RAF service with a further seven to go before … to say that the RAF timeline was wrong to call the loss of Chinook HC2 ZD576 on the Mull of Kintyre “the RAF’s worst …