Hovering above the Landsardse Plas to collect water with bambi bucket

In 1998 this Chinook was posted with 1310 Flight SFOR in Bosnia. it appeared at the Celje air show.

This Chinook belonged to the 1-160th SOAR. 350 is former CH-47B 66-19060 that was converted to CH-47D 85-24350 and later on CH-47F 09-08068.

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 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.

In an unusual and very intricate camouflage, parked in front of the crowd line at Leuchars "At Home Day".

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.

Seen at an International Air Tattoo

This Chinook was delivered to the US Army as CH-47C with serial 70-15033 and accepted on 16 December 1971). It was converted to CH-47D with serial 91-00232 and redelivered on 31 October 1991. It was last reported as stored at Middletown-Summit Airport (DE) with Summit Aviation (DE) in February 2016.