Last week, Boeing announced that it had been awarded two new contracts for CH-47F Block II Chinook helicopters for the United States Army. The Lot 4 and Lot 5 awards are valued at 461 million […]
Last week, Boeing announced the US Army Special Operations Aviation Command (USASOAC) awarded the company a contract worth 240 million USD to remanufacture five MH-47G Block II Chinook rotorcraft. The deliveries were set to begin […]
Since the 1980s, Boeing and Kawasaki delivered more than one hundred Chinooks to the JSDF. The helicopters were manufactured through one of the longest lasting and most successful license manufacturing programmes in Japan. ´This award […]
On 1st July 2024, the Boeing company officially informed about the delivery of the first CH-47F Chinook helicopter, modernized to the new Block II configuration. The rotorcraft is the first of up to 456 of […]
Boeing/Vertol CH-47D Chinook (c/n M-3666, D-666 ´the Beast´ of the 299th Squadron, the Royal Netherlands Air Force), static display during the 40th Sanicole International Airshow, Hechtel-Eksel, September 2017. On 21st September 1961, a new American […]
The US Army Special Operations Aviation Command (USASOAC) has recently awarded the Boeing company a contract for six remanufactured MH-47G Chinook Block II helicopters, as a part of the US Army modernization programme. The latest […]
On 5th July, the office of German Ministry of Defence announced that budget committee of Bundestag, the German parliament, finally approved the purchase of sixty heavy light CH-47F Chinook rotorcraft. It is supposed that the […]
At the beginning of January, Boeing announced that the US Army awarded the company a contract to produce twelve CH-47F Chinook helicopters for the Egyptian Air Force. That purchase, worth 426 million USD, will allow […]
In the middle of November 2022, the Boeing company delivered the twentieth CH-47F Chinook transport helicopter to the Royal Netherlands Air Force. This marked the completion of the country´s latest fleet upgrade. The CH-47F is […]
On 9th November this year, US Army aviators, Air Force tactical air control specialists and Air Force special warfare airmen conducted a joint airborne training in the vicinity of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER), Alaska. The […]
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