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By Ben Dunnell 22nd July 2022

… them daily. The breadth of the job also saw him flying the Chinook , Puma, Merlin, Apache and Wildcat, though not as …

By James Peene 3rd March 2022

… thrilled to announce the acquisition of the legendary RAF Chinook HC6A Bravo November . The newest addition to the … March and will travel by road on a low loader lorry. The Chinook will be on public display for the first time ahead of … Peter Johnston, RAF Museum Head of Collections said: "The Chinook, and in particular Bravo November is a significant …

By Charles Kennedy 21st August 2022

… in Scotland in December 1984 to uplift a British Airways Chinook and transport it to its new owners in Canada. After … the end of their service lives the four aircraft had flown 47,150 hours for Airbus and carried 100,000 tonnes of …

By Frank Visser 26th July 2022

… with four AH-64D Apache Longbow gunships and three CH-47D Chinook heavy-lift tactical transport helicopters. In 2021, … been performed on behalf of the MINUSMA by RNLAF-operated CH-47Ds from No 298 Squadron, so both they and the FAP …

7th March 2022

… of Gibraltar to serve RAF Gibraltar. A UK Royal Air Force Chinook helicopter airlifted the massive new radar onto the … The new radar was transported as an underslung load by the Chinook in four parts. The radar’s rotational turning gear, …

By Babak Taghvaee 11th March 2022

… of February 4, 2022, two MH-60M Black Hawks and a MH-47G Chinook of the US Army Special Forces approached a … three special operations helicopters, including a Chinook and two Black Hawks, landed near the building where … reach, with a little help. As the maximum ranges of the Chinook and Black Hawk is 348 miles and 317 miles, …

By Richard Thomas 13th May 2021

… The UK has agreed to purchase 14 Chinook CH-47 (ER) heavy-lift helicopters from the US via a …

By Richard Thomas 31st March 2022

… $650m for 25 UH-60 Black Hawk (M model), and $169m for six CH-47 Chinook helicopters. Meanwhile, naval requested spending …

By Khalem Chapman 7th May 2021

… a special Union Jack-themed scheme to one of its Boeing Chinook HC6A heavy-lift tactical transport helicopters in … Foreign Military Sale (FMS) of 16 extended-range Boeing CH-47F Chinooks to the UK in a deal worth US$3.5bn. As per … will be replaced by the latest variant of the type – the CH-47F. This acquisition process will be conducted alongside …

By Frank Visser and Ludo Mennes 13th January 2022

… at Gilze-Rijen Air Base to see how the air arm's new CH-47F Chinook fleet is gaining more traction with the Defence … but because we were set to receive the first of 14 new CH-47F MYII CAAS aircraft,” explained the squadron commander, …

By Tom Kaminski 27th April 2022

… can support numerous naval rotary-wing types including the CH/MH-53E, MH-60R/S, UH-1Y, AH-1Z, and MV-22B tiltrotor as …

By Dave Allport 10th February 2022

… BOEING HAS delivered the first of 17 CH-47F Chinooks to the Fuerzas Aeromóviles del Ejército de … being remanufactured from an existing older model FAMET CH-47D. The helicopter, coded ‘ET-420’ but serial … region. The Netherlands recently retired its last CH-47D Chinook in favor of the F-model configuration, while the …

By IAN BLACK 20th May 2022

… the Atlantic Conveyor transport ship carrying much-needed Chinook and Wessex helicopters to the Falkland Islands had …

By Richard Thomas 24th January 2022

… the New Medium Helicopter programme. The oldest of the CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopters would also be retired from …

17th February 2022

… and commandeered the only Royal Air Force (RAF) Boeing Chinook HC1 in the task force to carry his troops into … C1s of the recently formed special forces flight of 47 Squadron. The idea was to land SAS teams at Rio Grande air …