This Blackhawk belonged to the 1-160th SOAR and accompanied POTUS George Bush during an unexpected visit to the US Embassy-Kabul on 1 March 2006. A day later, the squadron was used for some logistic completements. It delivered some goods and personnel to Kabul where a standbye C-17A took these over.

Preserved in Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison, Texas.

This MH-47E was once delivered as CH-47C 74-22289 and accepted on 31 Aug'76. It was converted to MH-47E 91-00497 and delivered to the 2-160th SOAR on 21 Oct'93. The special ops Chinook crashlanded on 11 July 2006 near Sangin (Afghanistan) during operation Mountain Thrust, the damaged airframe was destroyed by coalition forces in an airstrike. Multiple 1-160th CH-47Ds, MH-47Gs, UH-60Ls and two HMX-1 VH-60Ns landed on or near HQ ISAF that is close to the US Embassy. Overhead was an AC-130 and a flight of A-10s gave Close Air Support while F-16s gave top cover. Quite an operation!

This Blackhawk belonged to the 1-160th SOAR and accompanied POTUS George Bush during an unexpected visit to the US Embassy-Kabul. Multiple 1-160th CH-47Ds, MH-47Gs, UH-60Ls and two HMX-1 VH-60Ns landed on or near HQ ISAF that is close to the US Embassy. Overhead was an AC-130 and a flight of A-10s gave Close Air Support while F-16s gave top cover. Quite an operation! The helicopters at HQ ISAF were on idle during the whole visit. Due to tight security measures, not all helicopters could be appraoched, but this one was.

This Chinook belonged to the 1-160th SOAR and accompanied POTUS George Bush during an unexpected visit to the US Embassy-Kabul. Multiple 1-160th CH-47Ds, MH-47Gs, UH-60LS and two HMX-1 VH-60Ns landed on or near HQ ISAF that is close to the US Embassy. Overhead was an AC-130 and a flight of A-10s gave Close Air Support while F-16s gave top cover. Quite an operation! The helicopters at HQ ISAF were on idle during the whole visit. Due to tight security measures, not all helicopters could be appraoched, but this one was. 350 is former CH-47B 66-19060 that was converted to CH-47D 85-24350 and CH-47F 09-08068.

Assigned at this time to 502nd Aviation Regiment Cyclones, USAREUR, Coleman Barracks, Mannheim, West Germany. Seen here with 2 others "colleagues" during a stopover.

This Citation was assigned to the 1-214th AVN

A VIP jet of the US Army, this Citation V (Model 560) belongs to the 2-214th AVN and visited Kabul.

Serial obscured by rotor. One of two Huey Cobras at Air Fete '82, serials were 71-21016 and 71-21026

This H-47 was once delivered to the US Army as CH-47C with serial 68-15846. It was converted to CH-47D with serial 88-00101 and redelivered on 25 Nov'89. It served for quite a long time - until '11 - the US Army in Europe from Coleman Barracks (Germany). When 101 was deployed to Dublin in support of President Obama's visit to Ireland, it was damaged during its landing in bad weather. The helo was then picked up by an USAF C-17A on 3 Jun'11 and flown back to USA. Luckily, it was inducted into the CH-47F conversion programme, cvtd to CH-47F as 11-08095. On this picture it served F/159th AVN.

One of 10 Guardrails to transit through Prestwick.

Assigned to HQ USEUCOM, based at Stuttgart, Germany.

Former AH-64A 83-23805 with c/n PV030

Deployed to Afghanistan with 3-158th AVN and seen here at Kandahar.

This rare Aero Commander arrived at the museum in 1988, in the US Army AVRADCOM markings it was last operated in. By the mid 1990s the museum had it repainted in fake and boring all-grey USAF markings, but fortunately they eventually saw the error of their ways and in 2008 it was restored in these original and very nice AVRADCOM markings.