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.

This Chinook was delivered to the USArmy as CH-47A with serial 66-00101 and accepted on 9 September 1966. It was converted to CH-47D with serial 85-24348 and redelivered on 27 May 1986. The helicopter then served A/2-159th AVN from April 1994 to October 1997 and was transferred to C/159th AVN on 16 October 1997 up to June 2003. Fro 2006, the CH-47D appeared in Afghanistan where it was sadly lost in an accident on 1 July 2010. It was reported that the accident was not related to enemy fire, no further details known.

This Chinook was delivered to the US Army as CH-47A with serial 63-07914 and accepted on 31 August 1964. The helicopter was converted to CH-47D with serial 87-00104 and redelivered on 30 July 1988. The helicopter was withdrawn from use by 2016 and eventually dumped at Middletown-Sum with Summit Aviation (DE).

This Chinook was delivered to the US Army as CH-47A with serial 61-02424 on 30 July 1963. The transport helicopter was converted to CH-47D with serial 87-00070 and redelive4rd to the US Army on 23 November 1987. Here it was seen deployed with the 3-158th AVN to Afghanistan.

The great thing of picturing deployed aircraft is often that very nice weathering and dust over the airframes, like this worn Chinook in Kandahar. This Chinook was once delivered to the US Army as CH-47C 85-24736. The helicopter was accepted on 9 August 1985). It was converted to CH-47D 92-00281 and redelivered on 15 December 1992. The helicopter was withdrawn from use in 2015 and eventually dumped at Middletown-Sum with Summit Aviation (DE).

Once Canadian Air Force CH-147 with serial 147006 (c/n B729/G003). The Chinook was sold to the Netherlands and converted by Boeing to CH-47D from 1994, it received a new US serial 93-0664 and conversion number M3664 and company number B729. The helicopter was delivered to the KLu on 29 December 1995. This Chinook deployed with the Dutch 1(NL) Air Task Force to Kandahar in 2006.

This Chinook was delivered as CH-47A with serial 61-02423. The helicopter was accepted on 30 June 1963 by the US Army. It was converted to CH-47D and received a new serial 91-00270. After conversion it was redelivered on 15 December 1992. It is here seen during its deployment to Afghanistan. The helicopter was sold as N166CN on 29 January 2016 and is now owned and used by by UC Helitanker, joint vernture of UNICAL and Coulson that offers commercial CH-47 Chinook and UH-60 Black Hawk aerial work and firefighting services.