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boeing-vertol 114

1959        


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ModelYearHistory
    YHC-1B     1960
    CH-47 Chinook     1961 Development began in 1956 as the Vertol model 114. In Jun 1959 a US Army contract for 5 prototype effective battlefield medium/heavy lift helico ...
The CH-47 Chinook is tandem rotor medium/heavy lift helicopter with a pair of 3 bladed, contra-rotating rotors atop a square section, semi-monoco ...
Hugely successful design has been developed and improved for over forty years in a number of versions and for a variety of customers, with every ...
Also built by Kawasaki in Japan and Meridionali in Italy. Chinooks have served in all branches of the US military and para-military and the armed ...
The much improved variant CH-47D is listed separately
    234     1978 Boeing built a total of 13 Model 234 civil Chinook helicopters; 6 for British Airways Helicopters (BAH), 3 for Helikopter Services AS in Norway, ...
    B 414 - H-47D Chinook     1979 In 1976 three US Army Chinooks (one for each existent version, A,B and C) were chosen to be converted to the new CH-47D variant which have upgra ...


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