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Brian Harris, U.S. Army (public domain)<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"chips\"><span class=\"chip\"><b>Role<\/b> Heavy-lift transport helicopter<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Era<\/b> 1962\u2013present<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Engine<\/b> 2 \u00d7 Lycoming \/ Honeywell T55 turboshaft<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Origin<\/b> USA \u00b7 Boeing (Vertol)<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Status<\/b> In frontline service<\/span><a class=\"chip fly\" href=\"#faq\">Can you fly in a CH-47 Chinook?<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">The Story<\/div>\n<h2>The CH-47 Chinook: how the U.S. Army got its heavy lifter<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cols\" style=\"margin-top:22px\">\n<div>\n<p>By the late 1950s the U.S. Army wanted a turbine-powered transport helicopter big enough to move artillery, vehicles and troops in one lift. Frank Piasecki\u2019s company \u2014 by then <strong>Vertol<\/strong>, soon <strong>Boeing Vertol<\/strong> \u2014 had long championed the <strong>tandem-rotor<\/strong> layout, with a large rotor at each end of the fuselage instead of a main-and-tail-rotor arrangement. Their <strong>Model 114<\/strong> became the Army\u2019s answer.<\/p>\n<p>The prototype, the <strong>YHC-1B<\/strong>, first flew on <strong>21 September 1961<\/strong>. Designated the <strong>CH-47A Chinook<\/strong>, it entered U.S. Army service in <strong>1962<\/strong> and deployed to <strong>Vietnam from 1965<\/strong>, where it hauled guns to mountaintop firebases and recovered thousands of downed aircraft. Two big counter-rotating rotors cancel each other\u2019s torque, so \u2014 unlike a conventional helicopter \u2014 almost all engine power goes into <strong>lift<\/strong>, not into a tail rotor.<\/p>\n<p>What followed is one of aviation\u2019s great longevity stories. The Chinook was progressively re-engined and rebuilt \u2014 the CH-47C, the rebuilt <strong>CH-47D<\/strong>, and today\u2019s digital <strong>CH-47F<\/strong> and special-operations <strong>MH-47G<\/strong>. More than <strong>60 years<\/strong> after its first flight it remains in production, operated by around <strong>20 nations<\/strong>, with Block II upgrades aimed at keeping it flying for decades more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pull\">\u201cTwo rotors, no tail rotor, and all that power turned into lift \u2014 the Chinook was built to carry what nothing else could.\u201d<cite><b>On the tandem-rotor design<\/b><\/cite><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"deepset\">\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">01<\/span><span class=\"t\">Why the CH-47 Chinook exists: the U.S. Army\u2019s search for a turbine heavy lifter<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>In the 1950s the Army was moving from piston to turbine power and wanted a transport helicopter that could lift a meaningful cargo \u2014 a field gun, a light vehicle, or a squad-plus of troops \u2014 in a single trip. Vertol\u2019s tandem-rotor experience with the earlier H-21 \u201cFlying Banana\u201d and the Sea Knight fed directly into the Model 114.<\/p>\n<p>The tandem layout was chosen deliberately: it gives a very wide usable centre-of-gravity range and puts all installed power into lift, both of which matter enormously for a heavy-load workhorse. The formula proved so sound that it has never been replaced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">02<\/span><span class=\"t\">The CH-47 Chinook\u2019s name: the U.S. Army\u2019s Native American naming tradition<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>Following the Army\u2019s long-standing convention of naming helicopters after Native American peoples (Iroquois\/Huey, Apache, Kiowa, Black Hawk), the CH-47 is named \u201cChinook\u201d after the Chinookan peoples of the Pacific Northwest. Boeing\u2019s own model designations run from the Model 114 through the modern CH-47F.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Design &amp; Engineering<\/div>\n<h2>How the CH-47 Chinook works: tandem rotors, engines and the cargo cabin<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cards3\">\n<div class=\"ecard\">\n<div class=\"num\">01<\/div>\n<h3>Two counter-rotating rotors, no tail rotor<\/h3>\n<p>The Chinook\u2019s defining feature is its <strong>tandem-rotor<\/strong> layout: two large three-blade rotors, one at each end, turning in opposite directions. Their torques cancel, so no power is wasted on a tail rotor and almost all of it becomes lift. The layout also gives a wide centre-of-gravity range for heavy, awkward loads.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ecard\">\n<div class=\"num\">02<\/div>\n<h3>Two T55 turboshafts and enormous power<\/h3>\n<p>Two <strong>Lycoming \/ Honeywell T55<\/strong> turboshafts, mounted on the rear pylon, drive both rotors through interconnecting shafts \u2014 so a single engine failure still leaves the aircraft flying. In the CH-47F each engine produces around <strong>4,700 shaft horsepower<\/strong>, giving the Chinook the muscle to lift heavy loads in hot, high conditions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ecard\">\n<div class=\"num\">03<\/div>\n<h3>A rear ramp, a cabin and a triple hook<\/h3>\n<p>A full-width <strong>rear loading ramp<\/strong> lets the Chinook swallow vehicles, pallets and troops; the cabin carries <strong>33\u201355 troops<\/strong> or cargo. Underneath, <strong>triple external cargo hooks<\/strong> sling loads too big to fit inside \u2014 guns, containers, even other helicopters \u2014 and place them precisely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"deepset\">\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">03<\/span><span class=\"t\">The CH-47 Chinook\u2019s lift: troops, internal cargo and underslung loads<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>Inside, the Chinook typically carries around <strong>33\u201355 troops<\/strong>, or roughly <strong>24 litters<\/strong> in the medical role, or pallets and vehicles rolled up the rear ramp. Its external load capacity is the headline number: modern variants can sling on the order of <strong>10,900&nbsp;kg (about 24,000&nbsp;lb)<\/strong> beneath the fuselage, though the exact figure varies with model, fuel, altitude and temperature.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>triple-hook<\/strong> system (a large centre hook plus forward and aft hooks) lets the Chinook carry a single very heavy load, or spread multiple loads to keep them stable in flight \u2014 a capability used to move artillery, engineering plant and downed aircraft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">04<\/span><span class=\"t\">The CH-47 Chinook family: from the CH-47A to the CH-47F and MH-47G<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>The <strong>CH-47A<\/strong> (1962) was the original. The <strong>CH-47C<\/strong> brought more powerful T55 engines and greater lift. The rebuilt <strong>CH-47D<\/strong> (1982) added uprated engines, better rotor blades and the triple-hook cargo system. The current <strong>CH-47F<\/strong> (2007) has a digital \u201cglass\u201d cockpit, a strengthened monolithic airframe and vibration reduction; the <strong>MH-47G<\/strong> is the special-operations version.<\/p>\n<p>Civil heavy-lift versions exist too: the Boeing <strong>Model 234<\/strong> and the machines flown by operators such as <strong>Columbia Helicopters<\/strong> for logging, construction and firefighting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">05<\/span><span class=\"t\">Who builds the CH-47 Chinook: Vertol, Boeing and licence production<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>The Chinook was designed by <strong>Vertol<\/strong>, which became <strong>Boeing Vertol<\/strong> and today <strong>Boeing Rotorcraft Systems<\/strong>, historically at Ridley Park, Pennsylvania. It has also been built or assembled under licence abroad \u2014 notably by <strong>Kawasaki<\/strong> in Japan (CH-47J\/JA) and by <strong>Elicotteri Meridionali \/ Agusta<\/strong> in Italy \u2014 and remains in production for the U.S. Army and export customers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Specifications<\/div>\n<h2>CH-47 Chinook specifications: dimensions, performance and cost<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-note\">Baseline note: the figures below describe the <b>CH-47F Block II<\/b>, the standard the US Army began taking on 1 July 2024 and to which up to 465 of its Chinooks are to be rebuilt. Deltas for the <b>CH-47D<\/b> of 1982 and the <b>MH-47G<\/b> special-operations aircraft are in <span class=\"imp\">grey<\/span>. One correction to sources that circulate widely: the Block II does not have new engines. It keeps the 4,777 shp T55-GA-714A, and its extra 4,000 lb of gross weight comes from a reinforced airframe, a redesigned single-cell fuel system, an improved drivetrain and a new rotor system. The 6,000 shp T55-GA-714C is a drop-in growth engine still in test, and the 6,500 shp &quot;T55-715&quot; quoted in some places was a 2008 proposal for a heavier Chinook that was never built.<\/p>\n<div class=\"specgrid three\">\n<div class=\"spectable\">\n<h4>Dimensions &amp; weights<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>Crew<\/dt>\n<dd>3 &mdash; pilot, co-pilot and a flight engineer or loadmaster, plus up to three gunners when the door and ramp mounts are manned. <span class=\"imp\">The flight engineer is not a passenger: on a Chinook he runs the hooks, calls the load and is the reason a pinnacle landing works<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Capacity<\/dt>\n<dd>33&ndash;55 troops, or 24 stretchers with three attendants, or 10,886 kg <span class=\"imp\">(24,000 lb)<\/span> of payload<\/dd>\n<dt>Fuselage length<\/dt>\n<dd>15.60 m <span class=\"imp\">(51 ft 2 in)<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Length, rotors turning<\/dt>\n<dd>30.14 m <span class=\"imp\">(98 ft 10.7 in)<\/span> &mdash; the discs overlap, so the aircraft is far shorter than two 60 ft rotors set end to end would be<\/dd>\n<dt>Rotor diameter<\/dt>\n<dd>18.29 m <span class=\"imp\">(60 ft 0 in)<\/span> each, three blades per rotor, fully articulated, counter-rotating<\/dd>\n<dt>Disc area<\/dt>\n<dd>525.3 m&sup2; <span class=\"imp\">(5,655 sq ft) for both discs, which is the basis on which the Army&rsquo;s 9.5 lb\/sq ft disc loading is calculated<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Fuselage width<\/dt>\n<dd>3.78 m <span class=\"imp\">(12 ft 5 in)<\/span>, 5.34 m (17 ft 6 in) across the sponsons<\/dd>\n<dt>Height<\/dt>\n<dd>5.68 m <span class=\"imp\">(18 ft 7.8 in)<\/span> to the top of the aft pylon<\/dd>\n<dt>Cargo compartment<\/dt>\n<dd>9.30 &times; 2.29 &times; 1.98 m <span class=\"imp\">(30 ft 6 in &times; 7 ft 6 in &times; 6 ft 6 in)<\/span> with a full-width rear ramp. <span class=\"imp\">The box takes a HMMWV, pallets on standard 463L handling, or a light vehicle driven straight up the ramp; the ramp can be flown open, level or trailing<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Empty weight<\/dt>\n<dd>11,148 kg <span class=\"imp\">(24,578 lb)<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Maximum gross weight<\/dt>\n<dd>24,494 kg <span class=\"imp\">(54,000 lb) on Block II, raised from 22,680 kg (50,000 lb) on Block I<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Internal fuel<\/dt>\n<dd>~4,088 litres <span class=\"imp\">(~1,080 US gal; ~899 imp gal)<\/span> in the sponsons, combined into one cell per side on Block II. <span class=\"imp\">The MH-47E and MH-47G carry far more in enlarged sponsons and can refuel in flight from a probe, which is the whole point of them<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>External load<\/dt>\n<dd>11,793 kg <span class=\"imp\">(26,000 lb)<\/span> on the centre hook; 7,711 kg <span class=\"imp\">(17,000 lb)<\/span> on each of the forward and aft hooks. <span class=\"imp\">Three hooks let one aircraft carry three separate loads and set them down in three places, or carry a single long load slung fore and aft so it does not swing<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Disc loading<\/dt>\n<dd>46.4 kg\/m&sup2; <span class=\"imp\">(9.5 lb\/sq ft)<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spectable\">\n<h4>Performance<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>Never-exceed speed<\/dt>\n<dd>315 km\/h <span class=\"imp\">(196 mph; 170 kn) &mdash; and it is a genuine Vne, not a brochure figure; the Chinook is one of the fastest helicopters in general military service<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Cruise speed<\/dt>\n<dd>291 km\/h <span class=\"imp\">(181 mph; 157 kn)<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Vertical rate of climb<\/dt>\n<dd>7.7 m\/s <span class=\"imp\">(1,522 ft\/min)<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Hover ceiling, in ground effect<\/dt>\n<dd>2,990 m <span class=\"imp\">(9,800 ft) at operational weight<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Hover ceiling, out of ground effect<\/dt>\n<dd>1,675 m <span class=\"imp\">(5,500 ft) at operational weight. These two figures matter far more than the service ceiling and are routinely misreported. A Chinook at 54,000 lb cannot hover anywhere near 20,000 ft; the Block II requirement is stated as a hover at 4,000 ft pressure altitude and 35 &deg;C carrying 22,000 lb, with an eventual goal of 6,000 ft, and that is the number the US Army actually cares about<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Service ceiling<\/dt>\n<dd>6,100 m <span class=\"imp\">(20,000 ft) &mdash; a lightly loaded, standard-day figure<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Range<\/dt>\n<dd>741 km <span class=\"imp\">(460 mi; 400 nmi)<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Combat radius<\/dt>\n<dd>~306 km <span class=\"imp\">(~190 mi; ~165 nmi)<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Ferry range<\/dt>\n<dd>2,252 km <span class=\"imp\">(1,400 mi; 1,216 nmi)<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Power-to-weight<\/dt>\n<dd>0.28 hp\/lb<\/dd>\n<dt>Hot-and-high behaviour<\/dt>\n<dd>The reason the type dominated Afghanistan. At altitude and in heat, where a UH-60 loses most of its useful load, a Chinook keeps enough of its own to be worth the sortie. <span class=\"imp\">One Chinook was reckoned to replace up to five Black Hawks in the air-assault lift role in the Afghan mountains. In Vietnam the same arithmetic ran the other way: a CH-47A was limited to a 7,000 lb payload in the mountains against 8,000 lb near the coast, and heat and humidity cost 20 per cent of maximum lift in the lowlands and 30 per cent in the hills<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Landing technique<\/dt>\n<dd>No tail rotor and lift that can be traded between two rotors give a very wide usable centre-of-gravity range and a set of manoeuvres nothing else can do: a pinnacle landing with only the forward wheels on a rock, or the rear ramp alone touched to a hillside with the aircraft held in a hover and the rotors turning clear of the slope. <span class=\"imp\">Because both rotors carry lift, adding or removing weight at either end &mdash; troops fast-roping out, a load released, men climbing up a rope &mdash; upsets a Chinook far less than it upsets a single-rotor helicopter<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spectable wide\">\n<h4>Propulsion &amp; systems<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>Engines<\/dt>\n<dd>2 &times; Honeywell (Lycoming) T55-GA-714A turboshaft, 3,562 kW <span class=\"imp\">(4,777 shp)<\/span> each, mounted on the sides of the aft pylon. <span class=\"imp\">CH-47A: T55-L-5 at 2,200 shp, later -L-7 and -L-7C; CH-47C &quot;Super C&quot;: T55-L-11 at 3,750 shp, hurriedly introduced, unreliable and temporarily withdrawn; CH-47D: T55-L-712 at 3,750 shp. The 6,000 shp T55-GA-714C has been in test since November 2021<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Transmission and drive train<\/dt>\n<dd>Both engines feed a combining transmission that drives forward and aft rotor gearboxes through shafting, with a synchronising shaft tying the two rotors together. <span class=\"imp\">Two consequences follow. Either engine can drive both rotors, so an engine failure is a performance problem rather than an emergency. And the rotors cannot go out of phase and strike one another, because they are mechanically locked in relative position &mdash; the whole overlapping layout depends on that shaft<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Rotor system<\/dt>\n<dd>Two three-blade fully articulated counter-rotating rotors in tandem, the aft one raised on a pylon and set with more blade angle so it works in cleaner air. <span class=\"imp\">Counter-rotation cancels torque, so there is no tail rotor and none of the roughly 10 per cent of engine power a tail rotor consumes; the pedals work by tilting the two discs in opposite directions instead. The type has no loss of tail-rotor effectiveness in a downwind hover, because there is nothing to lose<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Flight controls<\/dt>\n<dd>BAE Systems Digital Advanced Flight Control System, with an Active Parallel Actuator System on Block II that splits torque precisely between the two rotors. <span class=\"imp\">The CH-47C was refused an FAA certificate because its hydraulic flight-boost drive had no redundancy; redesigning it for the CH-47D is what allowed the civil Model 234 to be certificated<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Avionics<\/dt>\n<dd>Rockwell Collins Common Avionics Architecture System glass cockpit, shared with the MH-60K\/L and CH-53E\/K, plus dual embedded GPS and inertial navigation and a digital moving map. <span class=\"imp\">The British Project Julius rebuild fitted a Thales TopDeck flight deck, a nose-mounted forward-looking infra-red sensor and uprated T55-714 engines, producing the Chinook HC.4 and HC.5<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Sights and sensors<\/dt>\n<dd>No weapon sight of any kind on a standard aircraft. <span class=\"imp\">Nose-mounted forward-looking infra-red for pilotage on later marks; the MH-47G adds multi-mode terrain-following and terrain-avoidance radar, which is what lets it fly a low-level infiltration in weather that would ground everything else<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Defensive aids<\/dt>\n<dd>AN\/AAR-57 Common Missile Warning System, AN\/APR-39 radar warning, chaff and flare dispensers and infra-red suppressors on aircraft configured for it. <span class=\"imp\">The MH-47G carries a comprehensive suite as standard. It is worth saying plainly that none of this saved Extortion 17<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Loading equipment<\/dt>\n<dd>Three external cargo hooks, an internal rescue hoist, a full-width powered rear ramp and rollers or tie-down rings across the cabin floor. <span class=\"imp\">Chinooks in Vietnam also served as bombers, rolling tear gas or napalm drums off the ramp onto bunkers &mdash; an improvisation rather than a fit<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>First flight<\/dt>\n<dd>21 September 1961 <span class=\"imp\">(YHC-1B first hover); CH-47F prototype 2001, first production aircraft 23 October 2006; first CH-47F Block II delivered to the US Army 1 July 2024<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Service entry<\/dt>\n<dd>August 1962 <span class=\"imp\">(CH-47A); CH-47D 1982; MH-47E from 1991; CH-47F 2007; MH-47G Block II from September 2020<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Number built<\/dt>\n<dd>~1,200 airframes and still in production, including Kawasaki&rsquo;s Japanese line and Agusta&rsquo;s Italian one. <span class=\"imp\">Counting is complicated because most CH-47Ds and many CH-47Fs are rebuilds of earlier airframes rather than new aircraft &mdash; 472 of the Army&rsquo;s CH-47Ds were converted A, B and C models<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Unit cost<\/dt>\n<dd>~US$38 million flyaway for a recent CH-47F, considerably more for an MH-47G. <span class=\"imp\">The type first flew in 1961, is still being ordered in 2026, and the US Army expects to operate it beyond 2060 &mdash; a service life of a full century, which no other combat aircraft of any kind is on course to match<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"deepset\">\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">06<\/span><span class=\"t\">CH-47 Chinook variants: from the CH-47A to the CH-47F, MH-47G and civil Model 234<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p><strong>CH-47A<\/strong> \u2014 the original production Chinook (service from 1962).<\/p>\n<p><strong>CH-47C<\/strong> \u2014 more powerful T55 engines and greater lift.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CH-47D<\/strong> \u2014 from 1982, a comprehensive rebuild with uprated engines, improved rotors and the triple-hook cargo system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CH-47F<\/strong> \u2014 the current standard, with a digital cockpit, a strengthened airframe and reduced vibration; the <strong>MH-47G<\/strong> is the special-operations variant, and the civil <strong>Model 234<\/strong> serves commercial heavy-lift roles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">07<\/span><span class=\"t\">The CH-47 Chinook\u2019s operating costs: what a Chinook costs to buy and fly<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>Costs vary widely with variant, contract and customer. Recent CH-47F flyaway prices are frequently reported in the region of <strong>USD 30\u201340 million<\/strong>, with full Foreign Military Sales packages (training, spares and support) running higher per aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost per flight hour<\/strong> is commonly estimated at roughly <strong>USD 4,000\u201310,000 or more<\/strong>, but published figures differ widely depending on what is counted (fuel only, or fuel plus maintenance, overhaul and support). Treat any single number as an estimate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">Armament &amp; payload<\/p>\n<h2>The Chinook is a lorry, and the only weapons on a standard one are three machine guns pointed out of the windows<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">There is no honest way to write an armament section for a CH-47, so the six cards below describe what the aircraft actually carries: load. The standard Chinook has no gun mount fitted as delivered, no pylons, no missile, no bomb and no sight. What it has is a 30 ft cargo box, three external hooks and enough power to lift nearly eleven tonnes, and every operational reputation the type has &mdash; artillery on mountain tops in Vietnam, air assault in Afghanistan, flood relief in Uttarakhand, sea water dropped on Fukushima reactors through lead plates laid on the cabin floor &mdash; comes from that and nothing else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">The Army did try arming it. Four CH-47As were converted in 1965 into the ACH-47A &quot;Guns A Go-Go&quot;: two 20 mm M24A1 cannon, a 40 mm grenade turret, five .50 in or 7.62 mm machine guns and two pods of 70 mm rockets or miniguns. Three were lost, one of them when a retention pin worked loose on a 20 mm cannon and the aircraft shot off its own forward rotor blades. The programme stopped because transport demand was more urgent than gunship experiments, which was the correct answer then and remains the correct answer now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">What the Chinook has always been is a target rather than a shooter, and the record is blunt about it. Of the roughly 750 Chinooks in US and South Vietnamese hands, about 200 were lost to combat or wartime accidents. The two worst single days for American forces in Afghanistan were both Chinook shootdowns: sixteen special-operations men in Kunar in June 2005, and 38 aboard Extortion 17 near Kabul on 6 August 2011, brought down by a rocket-propelled grenade. A large slow helicopter full of people is the most valuable target on any battlefield, and no amount of defensive equipment changes that arithmetic. <span class=\"imp\">Fits vary sharply: US Army and RAF aircraft routinely fly with two door guns and a ramp gun in theatre, several European operators fly without any gun mount at all, and the MH-47G carries a permanent armed and defensive fit that no standard aircraft has.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"armgrid\">\n<div class=\"armcard\">\n<h4>Payload &amp; lift<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><b>10,886 kg (24,000 lb)<\/b> of payload at a 24,494 kg (54,000 lb) gross weight, with Block II adding 4,000 lb of that gross weight over Block I<\/li>\n<li>The Block II design point is not a maximum figure but a hot-and-high one: hover with 22,000 lb at 4,000 ft pressure altitude and 35 &deg;C, growing to 6,000 ft, which is what is needed to lift a Joint Light Tactical Vehicle out of an Afghan valley<\/li>\n<li>In Vietnam the same aircraft was limited to 7,000 lb in the mountains and 8,000 lb near the coast, and the CH-47A&rsquo;s transmission could not take both engines at full power. The whole B and C development programme was chasing that one problem<\/li>\n<li>Nothing is carried on pylons because there are none. Every kilogramme goes inside the box or under the hooks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"armcard\">\n<h4>Cargo bay &amp; vehicles<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><b>9.30 &times; 2.29 &times; 1.98 m<\/b> (30 ft 6 in &times; 7 ft 6 in &times; 6 ft 6 in) with a full-width powered rear ramp and a flat floor on rollers and tie-down rings<\/li>\n<li>A HMMWV drives straight up the ramp; so do quad bikes, light guns and pallets on standard 463L handling equipment. The ramp can be flown open, which is how paratroops and stores leave<\/li>\n<li>Because lift is shared between two rotors, the usable centre-of-gravity range is enormous. A load can be put almost anywhere in the cabin and the aircraft will still trim &mdash; a freedom no single-rotor helicopter has, and the single most underrated feature of the layout<\/li>\n<li>The best-value work the type ever did was recovery: under Project Pipe Smoke, Chinooks lifted roughly 12,000 downed aircraft worth more than US$3.6 billion out of Vietnam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"armcard\">\n<h4>External loads &amp; the triple hook<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Centre hook: 11,793 kg (26,000 lb)<\/b> &mdash; enough for a 40 ft ISO container, an M198 or M777 howitzer, a light vehicle or a bulk fuel bladder<\/li>\n<li><b>Forward and aft hooks: 7,711 kg (17,000 lb) each<\/b>, usable independently for three separate loads dropped at three separate places on one sortie, or together in tandem for a single long load that will not oscillate<\/li>\n<li>Tandem slinging is the reason the Chinook can carry things that would set a single-hook helicopter swinging uncontrollably. It is also why the type flies bridge sections, boats and recovered airframes<\/li>\n<li>The signature Vietnam mission was artillery: placing a battery on a mountain top reachable by nothing else, then keeping it fed with ammunition. The Chinook was so valuable at this that it was rarely risked as an assault troop carrier at all<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"armcard\">\n<h4>Troops, casualties &amp; airdrop<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><b>33 to 55 troops<\/b> depending on seating and load, which is a rifle platoon and then some &mdash; the reason a Chinook can put a coherent fighting unit on the ground in one lift rather than four<\/li>\n<li><b>24 stretchers and three attendants.<\/b> The Chinook has been the British forces&rsquo; casualty-evacuation aircraft of choice in every recent campaign, and in Vietnam it was used for the job whenever nothing else could take the numbers<\/li>\n<li>Fast-rope insertion and extraction from the ramp and doors, and parachute despatch off the open ramp<\/li>\n<li>Disaster relief is a real role rather than a public-relations one: Hurricane Andrew in 1992, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, Fukushima in 2011 and Indian flood relief in 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"armcard\">\n<h4>Defensive armament<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Up to three pintle-mounted 7.62 mm machine guns<\/b> &mdash; one at each forward shoulder window and one on the rear ramp. Normally <b>M240<\/b> or <b>FN MAG<\/b>; the <b>M134 Minigun<\/b> is fitted in place of an M240 where weight of fire matters more than ammunition<\/li>\n<li>Crews in Vietnam invented the fit themselves, hanging an M60 in each forward door and sometimes an M2 .50 in on the ramp, with mechanical stops added so a gunner could not fire into his own rotor discs<\/li>\n<li><b>None is fitted as standard on a factory aircraft.<\/b> Where the guns are carried, they are for suppressing a landing zone during the seconds the aircraft is stationary and vulnerable, and they cover nothing forward of the beam<\/li>\n<li>The one armed Chinook was the <b>ACH-47A<\/b> of 1965: 20 mm cannon, a 40 mm grenade turret, five heavy machine guns and rocket pods. Four converted, three lost, programme closed by 1968<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"armcard\">\n<h4>MH-47G special-operations fit<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Air-to-air refuelling probe<\/b> and enlarged sponson fuel tanks, giving the range for a single-sortie infiltration far beyond any standard Chinook<\/li>\n<li><b>Multi-mode terrain-following and terrain-avoidance radar<\/b> and forward-looking infra-red, flown with night-vision goggles at very low level in weather<\/li>\n<li><b>A comprehensive defensive aids suite<\/b> and a permanent armament of two 7.62 mm M134 Miniguns and two M240 machine guns &mdash; the only Chinook variant whose guns are part of the design rather than a theatre fit<\/li>\n<li>Fast-rope and rappelling systems, the Rockwell Collins CAAS cockpit and all the Block II structural changes. Twenty-four Block II aircraft ordered from September 2020 against a stated requirement of 69<\/li>\n<li>The United States does not export the model. The nearest thing is the RAF&rsquo;s H-47(ER), 14 aircraft contracted in March 2024 with extended range and in-flight refuelling, and the ill-fated Chinook HC3 of 1995 &mdash; a cut-price MH-47E whose bespoke avionics were never certificated, which cost an estimated &pound;500 million and had to be reverted to HC2 standard before it could fly operationally<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"loadouts\">\n<h4>Three typical loadouts<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>Artillery air movement<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">One 155 mm M777 or M198 howitzer under the centre hook, about 30 rounds of ammunition and the eleven-man gun crew inside. The mission the Chinook was bought for, flown first onto Vietnamese mountain tops and most recently into Afghan valleys, and the one nothing else in Western service can do in a single lift.<\/dd>\n<dt>Air assault lift<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">33 to 44 troops with weapons and combat load, doors and ramp manned with two M240s and an M134, defensive aids live, escorted by AH-64s. Where a UH-60 would need five sorties in the mountains, the Chinook needs one &mdash; and carries the whole platoon as one unit rather than as five fragments.<\/dd>\n<dt>Special-operations infiltration<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">MH-47G with full sponson fuel, in-flight refuelling probe, terrain-following radar, two Miniguns and two M240s, fast ropes rigged. Flown at night at very low level, hundreds of miles, in weather that grounds everything else. This is the Chinook doing the job the type is least suited to and does anyway, and it is the mission profile in which the type has taken its worst losses.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"spx-note\"><span class=\"imp\">Sourcing caveat: hook capacities, cabin dimensions and payload figures are Boeing and US Army publications for the CH-47F and describe permissible limits at particular weights and temperatures, not what a given aircraft will lift on a given day &mdash; on a Chinook the operator&rsquo;s manual chart, not a single number, is the answer. Gun fits are theatre-dependent rather than fixed, and several operators fly the type entirely unarmed.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">Variants<\/p>\n<h2>Boeing has kept one 1961 airframe in continuous production by rebuilding it roughly every twenty years<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">The Chinook exists because the US Army could not decide how big its new turbine transport should be. One faction wanted a light tactical helicopter carrying a squad; another wanted something that could lift artillery and the Pershing missile system. The Army eventually took both: Vertol&rsquo;s smaller Model 107 became the Marine CH-46 Sea Knight, the Huey was enlarged to carry the squad, and Vertol was told to scale the 107 up into the Model 114. That aircraft first hovered on 21 September 1961 and has never been out of production since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Development has run in two streams. The mainstream A, B, C, D, F and F Block II line is mostly about power, gross weight and cockpit, and most aircraft in any given fleet are rebuilds rather than new-builds &mdash; 472 of the Army&rsquo;s CH-47Ds were converted A, B and C airframes. The special-operations stream, from the MH-47D of the 1980s to the MH-47G Block II of today, adds range, refuelling, radar and defensive equipment, and it has always been small, expensive and export-restricted.<\/p>\n<dl class=\"varlist\">\n<dt>YHC-1B \/ CH-47A <span class=\"imp\">(1961&ndash;1967, 354 built)<\/span><\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">Lycoming T55-L-5 at 2,200 shp, later -L-7 and -L-7C, 33,000 lb gross weight and about 10,000 lb of payload. Deliveries from August 1962. Its transmission could not absorb both engines at full power, which is the problem the next two marks were built to fix.<\/dd>\n<dt>CH-47B and CH-47C <span class=\"imp\">(1967&ndash;1980, 108 and 233 built)<\/span><\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">The power fix, in two steps. The B was an interim aircraft with 2,850 shp T55-L-7C engines, a blunted aft pylon, asymmetric blades and strakes along the ramp and fuselage to clean up the airflow, and it introduced the M24 door and M41 ramp gun mounts. The C brought stronger transmissions and, as the &quot;Super C&quot;, 3,750 shp T55-L-11 engines at a 46,000 lb gross weight &mdash; an engine rushed in to buy payload, unreliable enough to be temporarily swapped back for the older -L-7C. The C was widely exported and licence-built by Agusta in Italy. Four CH-47As had meanwhile been converted in 1965 into the armed ACH-47A described above; three were lost and the idea was abandoned by 1968.<\/dd>\n<dt>CH-47D <span class=\"imp\">(1979&ndash;2002, 472 converted plus new-build)<\/span><\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">The transformation: T55-L-712 and later T55-GA-714A engines, composite rotor blades, redesigned cockpit, redundant electrics, an advanced flight control system, GPS and the triple-hook cargo system with 26,000 lb on the centre point. Almost every US CH-47D was a rebuilt A, B or C.<\/dd>\n<dt>MH-47D and MH-47E <span class=\"imp\">(1980s&ndash;1990s, 12 and 26 built)<\/span><\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">Special-operations conversions for the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, with in-flight refuelling, fast-rope systems and, on the E, greatly enlarged fuel capacity and terrain-following radar. All later rebuilt to MH-47G.<\/dd>\n<dt>CH-47F <span class=\"imp\">(2001&ndash;present)<\/span><\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">A monolithic milled airframe with far fewer joints, which cuts vibration, inspection and crack repair and extends fatigue life; T55-GA-714A engines, the Rockwell Collins CAAS cockpit and the BAE digital flight control system. Boeing had delivered 48 by August 2008 and then took a US$4.8 billion contract for 191 more.<\/dd>\n<dt>CH-47F Block II <span class=\"imp\">(from 2024)<\/span><\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">Reinforced airframe, single-cell fuel system saving 90 kg and adding capacity, improved drivetrain, three 60 kVA generators, 54,000 lb gross weight. First delivered 1 July 2024. The Advanced Chinook Rotor Blades derived from the cancelled RAH-66 Comanche were dropped after persistent vibration and an aft-blade stall problem &mdash; a rare public admission that a promised upgrade did not work.<\/dd>\n<dt>MH-47G <span class=\"imp\">(2004&ndash;present, Block II from 2020)<\/span><\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">The current special-operations aircraft: CAAS cockpit, all the CH-47F structural work, refuelling probe, terrain-following radar, a full defensive suite and two Miniguns and two M240s. The last first-generation MH-47G was handed over in February 2011; Block II deliveries began 1 September 2020 against a requirement of 69.<\/dd>\n<dt>CH-47J and CH-47JA <span class=\"imp\">(1986&ndash;present, licence-built by Kawasaki)<\/span><\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">Japanese aircraft for the Ground and Air Self-Defense Forces, differing in engine, rotor brake and avionics; the JA of 1993 added enlarged tanks, an AAQ-16 infra-red turret and a partial glass cockpit. Kawasaki had built 61 by April 2001 and more than 110 by the early 2000s. Three flew the sea-water drops over Fukushima in March 2011.<\/dd>\n<dt>UK Chinook HC.1 to HC.6A <span class=\"imp\">(1980&ndash;present)<\/span><\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">The largest fleet outside the United States. HC.1 based on the CH-47C, HC.2 and HC.2A rebuilt to CH-47D standard from 1993, HC.4 and HC.5 produced by the Project Julius avionics rebuild, and HC.6 and HC.6A based on the CH-47F. The HC.3, eight cut-price MH-47Es ordered in 1995 and delivered in 2001, never became operational and had to be reverted. <i>Bravo November<\/i> survived the sinking of the <i>Atlantic Conveyor<\/i> in 1982 and once lifted 81 troops in a single Falklands sortie.<\/dd>\n<dt>Model 234, CH-47SD and other exports <span class=\"imp\">(1980&ndash;present)<\/span><\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">The civil Model 234LR and 234UT, whose type certificate Columbia Helicopters bought in 2006 and which still fly logging and firefighting work; the Model 414 export CH-47D; the CH-47SD &quot;Super D&quot; with extra fuel for Singapore, Greece and Taiwan; the CH-47DG for Greece; and the HH-47D search-and-rescue variant for South Korea.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"spx-note\"><span class=\"imp\">Closing caveat: production totals for the Chinook are unusually soft because the great majority of D and F aircraft are rebuilds, so the same airframe can appear in three different production figures. Roughly 1,200 airframes is the most defensible single number, and it excludes the separate Kawasaki and Agusta licence runs from some counts and includes them in others.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Timeline<\/div>\n<h2>The CH-47 Chinook: a timeline from the Model 114 to the CH-47F<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tl\">\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1958<\/div>\n<h3>Vertol designs the Model 114<\/h3>\n<p>Vertol begins design of the tandem-rotor Model 114 to meet a U.S. Army medium-transport requirement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1961<\/div>\n<h3>YHC-1B first flight<\/h3>\n<p>The prototype YHC-1B (Boeing Vertol Model 114) makes its first flight on 21 September 1961.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1962<\/div>\n<h3>CH-47A enters service<\/h3>\n<p>The type is designated CH-47A Chinook and enters U.S. Army service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1965<\/div>\n<h3>Chinook goes to Vietnam<\/h3>\n<p>The Chinook deploys to Vietnam, lifting artillery to firebases and recovering downed aircraft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1967<\/div>\n<h3>The uprated CH-47C<\/h3>\n<p>Up-engined variants follow; the CH-47C brings more powerful T55 engines and greater lift.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1982<\/div>\n<h3>The rebuilt CH-47D<\/h3>\n<p>The rebuilt CH-47D enters service with uprated engines, better rotors and a triple-hook cargo system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2007<\/div>\n<h3>The digital CH-47F<\/h3>\n<p>The new-build, digital CH-47F enters U.S. Army service with a strengthened airframe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">Today<\/div>\n<h3>60+ years and counting<\/h3>\n<p>The CH-47F and special-operations MH-47G remain in production after 60+ years, with Block II upgrades extending the design toward mid-century.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Stories &amp; Eyewitnesses<\/div>\n<h2>The CH-47 Chinook in action: notable missions and variants<\/h2>\n<div class=\"car\"><button class=\"cbtn p\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('stcar').scrollBy({left:-712,behavior:'smooth'})\">\u2039<\/button><button class=\"cbtn n\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('stcar').scrollBy({left:712,behavior:'smooth'})\">\u203a<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"track\" id=\"stcar\">\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Vietnam<\/div>\n<h4>Vietnam, 1965: the Chinook goes to war<\/h4>\n<p>The heavy lifter proved itself hauling guns and rescuing aircraft.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">From 1965, CH-47A Chinooks in Vietnam lifted artillery to mountaintop firebases, carried troops and supplies, and recovered thousands of downed aircraft \u2014 reportedly well over 10,000 airframes flown back for repair over the war. A gun-armed version, the ACH-47A \u201cGuns-A-Go-Go\u201d, was also trialled in the fire-support role.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Falklands<\/div>\n<h4>1982: \u201cBravo November\u201d, the Chinook that survived<\/h4>\n<p>A single RAF Chinook did the work of many after disaster at sea.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">When the container ship Atlantic Conveyor was hit during the 1982 Falklands War, most of the British Chinooks aboard were destroyed. One aircraft \u2014 RAF Chinook \u201cBravo November\u201d \u2014 was airborne at the time and survived. It went on to carry huge loads of troops and stores across the islands, and remained in RAF service for decades, earning near-legendary status.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Tandem rotors<\/div>\n<h4>Why the Chinook has two rotors and no tail rotor<\/h4>\n<p>The twin-rotor layout turns all engine power into lift.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">Instead of a tail rotor that burns power just to stop the fuselage spinning, the Chinook uses two large counter-rotating rotors, one at each end. Their torques cancel out, so almost all engine power goes into lifting. The layout also gives a very wide centre-of-gravity range, letting the Chinook carry heavy and awkward loads that would unbalance a conventional helicopter.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Heavy lift<\/div>\n<h4>The triple hook: slinging vehicles, guns and even aircraft<\/h4>\n<p>The Chinook can carry loads too big to fit inside.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">Under its belly the Chinook carries multiple external cargo hooks \u2014 the CH-47D and F use a triple-hook system \u2014 able to lift and stabilise very heavy underslung loads: light vehicles, artillery pieces, containers, and even other downed helicopters. Loads can be delivered precisely to places no truck or fixed-wing aircraft can reach.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Special operations<\/div>\n<h4>The MH-47: flying special forces into the dark<\/h4>\n<p>A heavily modified Chinook is a special-operations workhorse.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">The MH-47D\/E\/G, flown by the U.S. Army 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (the \u201cNight Stalkers\u201d), adds air-to-air refuelling, terrain-following radar, extra fuel and defensive systems for long-range, low-level infiltration at night and in bad weather. It has inserted and recovered special-operations teams across Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Mountains<\/div>\n<h4>Afghanistan: the helicopter that owns the high country<\/h4>\n<p>Twin rotors and huge power make the Chinook a high-altitude champion.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">In the thin air of Afghanistan\u2019s mountains, where lift is scarce, the Chinook\u2019s power and tandem rotors let it work from high landing zones that defeat many other helicopters. British, American, Dutch, Italian, Canadian and Australian Chinooks became the backbone of air movement in the campaign.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Relief<\/div>\n<h4>From earthquakes to floods: the Chinook as lifesaver<\/h4>\n<p>The same lift that moves armies moves aid.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">Chinooks have flown disaster relief around the world \u2014 carrying food, shelter and the injured after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and after countless floods and storms. Their ability to lift bulky loads into cut-off areas makes them one of the most valuable aircraft in any humanitarian operation.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Civil Chinook<\/div>\n<h4>The Boeing 234 and Columbia: Chinooks in civilian colours<\/h4>\n<p>A handful of Chinooks work for a living outside the military.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">Boeing built a civil version, the Model 234, used for North Sea oil-rig support and passenger work; today firms such as Columbia Helicopters operate commercial Chinooks for heavy-lift logging, construction and firefighting. These are working aircraft, not passenger-ride operations \u2014 there is no bookable Chinook \u201cexperience flight\u201d.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Longevity<\/div>\n<h4>The 60-year helicopter<\/h4>\n<p>Few combat aircraft stay in production this long.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">First flown in 1961, the Chinook has been in continuous production and upgrade ever since \u2014 one of only a handful of military aircraft to pass 60 years in frontline service. The current CH-47F Block II and MH-47G keep the design competitive, and the U.S. Army expects Chinooks to keep flying for decades to come.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Worldwide<\/div>\n<h4>The heavy lifter the world buys<\/h4>\n<p>Around 20 nations fly the Chinook.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">Beyond the U.S. Army, the Chinook and its export versions serve with the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Spain, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey and Thailand, among others \u2014 roughly 20 nations. Many have used it in combat, disaster relief and mountain operations.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Gallery<\/div>\n<h2>CH-47 Chinook photos: the heavy-lift helicopter up close<\/h2>\n<div class=\"car\"><button class=\"cbtn p\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('gal').scrollBy({left:-660,behavior:'smooth'})\">\u2039<\/button><button class=\"cbtn n\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('gal').scrollBy({left:660,behavior:'smooth'})\">\u203a<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"track gal\" id=\"gal\">\n<figure data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:1022\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ch-47-chinook-us-army-training-exercise.jpg\"><img data-opt-id=584583923  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:1022\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ch-47-chinook-us-army-training-exercise.jpg\"  class=\"ph\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201022%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221022%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221022%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"CH-47 Chinook helicopter during a training exercise\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption><span>An Army CH-47 Chinook during a training exercise. Photo: U.S. Army (public domain).<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:963\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ch-47-chinook-helicopter-landing.jpg\"><img data-opt-id=4094249  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:963\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ch-47-chinook-helicopter-landing.jpg\"  class=\"ph\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%20963%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%22963%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%22963%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"CH-47 Chinook helicopter preparing to land\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption><span>A CH-47 Chinook kicks up dust as it prepares to land. Photo: U.S. Army \/ DVIDS (public domain).<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1501\/h:1080\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ch-47f-chinook-iraq-4th-infantry-division.jpg\"><img data-opt-id=512014769  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1501\/h:1080\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ch-47f-chinook-iraq-4th-infantry-division.jpg\"  class=\"ph\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201105%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221105%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221105%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"CH-47F Chinook helicopter of the 4th Infantry Division in Iraq\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption><span>A CH-47F Chinook of the 4th Infantry Division, combat-tested in Iraq. Photo: Spc. Jason Dangel, U.S. Army (public domain).<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:1023\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ch-47f-chinook-flight-engineer-rear-ramp.jpg\"><img data-opt-id=857278750  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:1023\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ch-47f-chinook-flight-engineer-rear-ramp.jpg\"  class=\"ph\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201023%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221023%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221023%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Flight engineer on the rear ramp of a CH-47F Chinook\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption><span>A flight engineer watches from the rear ramp of a CH-47F Chinook. Photo: U.S. Army \/ DVIDS (public domain).<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ch-47-chinook-vietnam-1967.jpg\"><img data-opt-id=1030259373  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ch-47-chinook-vietnam-1967.jpg\"  class=\"ph\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"CH-47 Chinook helicopter in Vietnam in 1967\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption><span>Australian soldiers with a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook in Vietnam, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army (public domain).<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:864\/h:1080\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ch-47-chinook-sling-load-external-vehicle.jpg\"><img data-opt-id=139164870  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:864\/h:1080\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ch-47-chinook-sling-load-external-vehicle.jpg\"  class=\"ph\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201229%201536%22%20width%3D%221229%22%20height%3D%221536%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221229%22%20height%3D%221536%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"CH-47 Chinook lifting a vehicle as an external sling load\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption><span>A CH-47 Chinook lifts an L-ATV vehicle as an underslung external load. Photo: Oshkosh Defense (CC BY-SA 4.0).<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:1024\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ch-47f-chinook-flight-crew-kodiak-alaska.jpg\"><img data-opt-id=555443784  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:1024\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ch-47f-chinook-flight-crew-kodiak-alaska.jpg\"  class=\"ph\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201024%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221024%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221024%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"CH-47F Chinook flight crew preparing the helicopter in Alaska\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption><span>U.S. Army flight crew prepare a CH-47F Chinook for a flight to Kodiak, Alaska. Photo: U.S. DoD (public domain).<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Watch<\/div>\n<h2>The CH-47 Chinook on screen: how the tandem-rotor helicopter works<\/h2>\n<div class=\"vidwrap\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/QYI2vTFL5WA\" title=\"How does a cargo helicopter work? (CH-47 Chinook)\" loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:14px;font-size:13.5px;color:#8b94a5\">Learn from the Base \u00b7 \u201cHow does a Cargo Helicopter work? 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The pattern is distinctive: unlike most American combat aircraft, the export Chinook fleet is concentrated in close allies who operate the type exactly as the US Army does, and several of them build or rebuild their own &mdash; Kawasaki in Japan, Agusta in Italy. The largest new order on the books is European: Germany chose the CH-47F Block II in June 2022 to replace its CH-53Gs, and none of those 60 aircraft has yet been delivered.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fleetchart\">\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">United States<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:100%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">~530<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">Japan<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:12%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">~62<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">United Kingdom<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:10%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">~54<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">South Korea<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:8%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">~40<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">Netherlands<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:4%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">20<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">Singapore<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:3%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">~18<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">Spain<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:3%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">17<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">Italy<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:3%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">~16<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">India<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:3%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">15<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">Australia<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:3%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">14<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">Canada<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:3%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">14<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"spx-note\"><span class=\"imp\">These are estimates of delivered aircraft on charge. The US figure combines 465 CH-47F with the US Army, Army National Guard and Army Reserve as of January 2025 with roughly 69 MH-47G of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, and the Block II rebuild programme covers up to 465 of them. Japan&rsquo;s number is 47 CH-47J and JA with the Ground Self-Defense Force and 15 with the Air Self-Defense Force as of March 2022, all Kawasaki-built; a Japanese equipment return gives 66, and the difference has not been reconciled. The British total was 60 in February 2022 and 54 in active inventory in 2025, with further temporary reduction announced ahead of 14 new H-47(ER) contracted in March 2024 &mdash; treat 54 as a ceiling rather than a current flying figure. South Korea&rsquo;s is Republic of Korea Army CH-47D plus air force HH-47D and is the shakiest entry here; 18 CH-47F have been approved to supplement them. The Dutch 20 are 14 new-build CH-47F and six earlier aircraft brought to the same standard, all CH-47Ds having gone by 2023. Singapore&rsquo;s figure includes twelve CH-47SD &quot;Super D&quot; and dates from 2011, with CH-47F replacement under way. Spain has 13 CH-47D upgraded to F standard plus four new-build. Ordered but not delivered and therefore not charted: Germany, 60 CH-47F Block II. Omitted because no current figure could be corroborated: Greece, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan and Libya. Iran is a special case &mdash; it bought about 90 Agusta-built CH-47Cs before 1979, has kept them flying under embargo with locally rebuilt airframes, and estimates of what is operational have ranged from 20 to 45. Sources: IISS The Military Balance, FlightGlobal World Air Forces, US Army and national inventory returns and manufacturer announcements; entries that could not be corroborated are omitted.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Combat Record<\/div>\n<h2>The CH-47 Chinook in combat: from Vietnam to today<\/h2>\n<p>The Chinook is one of the most combat-tested helicopters ever built, in continuous frontline use since Vietnam. It has hauled troops, guns and supplies, recovered downed aircraft, and inserted special-operations teams from Southeast Asia to the Falklands, Iraq and Afghanistan. Specific loss and mission figures vary between sources and should be treated as estimates.<\/p>\n<div class=\"combat\">\n<div class=\"cstat\"><b>1965<\/b><span>Combat debut in Vietnam (CH-47A)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cstat\"><b>1982<\/b><span>\u201cBravo November\u201d survives the Falklands War<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cstat\"><b>~20<\/b><span>Nations operating the Chinook<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:26px;font-size:14.5px;color:#454e5e\">Compare the <a href=\"\/fighter-jet-combat-statistics\/\">Explore the combat record of every military aircraft<\/a>. Data as of July 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"faq\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Questions &amp; Answers<\/div>\n<h2>CH-47 Chinook: frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n<div class=\"qa\">\n<details open=\"\">\n<summary>Can I fly in a CH-47 Chinook?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Not as a bookable passenger experience. The CH-47 is a frontline military heavy-lift helicopter, and there are no scheduled civilian operations selling rides in one. A small number of Chinooks fly on civil registers \u2014 Boeing 234s and Columbia Helicopters machines used for heavy-lift construction, logging and firefighting \u2014 but none offers seats to the public. If you want to actually fly in a fast military aircraft, you <b>can<\/b>: MiGFlug has put civilians in real fighter-jet cockpits since 2004. See the current options at <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\">migflug.com\/flights-prices\/<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What is the CH-47 Chinook?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a twin-engine, tandem-rotor heavy-lift helicopter. It has two large counter-rotating rotors and no tail rotor, first flew in 1961, entered U.S. Army service in 1962, and remains in production more than 60 years later.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Who makes the CH-47 Chinook?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">It was designed by Vertol, which became Boeing Vertol and today Boeing Rotorcraft Systems. It has also been built under licence abroad, including by Kawasaki in Japan and by Agusta\/Elicotteri Meridionali in Italy.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Why does the Chinook have two rotors and no tail rotor?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The tandem-rotor layout uses two counter-rotating rotors whose torques cancel each other out, so no power is wasted on a tail rotor and almost all engine power becomes lift. It also gives a very wide centre-of-gravity range, which helps carry heavy and awkward loads.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How much can a CH-47 Chinook lift?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Internally the Chinook typically carries 33 to 55 troops, or around 24 litters, or cargo rolled up the rear ramp. Externally, modern variants can sling on the order of 10,900 kg (about 24,000 lb) on their cargo hooks, though the exact figure depends on model, fuel, altitude and temperature.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What is the difference between the CH-47D, CH-47F and MH-47G?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The CH-47D was a 1982 rebuild with uprated engines and a triple-hook cargo system. The CH-47F is the current new-build standard, with a digital cockpit, strengthened airframe and reduced vibration. The MH-47G is the special-operations version, with air-to-air refuelling, terrain-following radar and extra fuel.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How fast is a Chinook and how far can it fly?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Maximum speed is about 315 km\/h (roughly 170 knots), with a cruise around 291 km\/h. Range on internal fuel is on the order of 740 km, and much greater when ferried with additional fuel tanks.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Has the CH-47 Chinook been used in combat?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Yes, extensively. The Chinook has flown in combat since Vietnam in 1965 and in nearly every major Western operation since, including the Falklands War, the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan, where its heavy lift and high-altitude performance made it indispensable.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Which countries operate the CH-47 Chinook?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Besides the United States, operators include the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Spain, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey and Thailand \u2014 around 20 nations in total.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"ad\">\n<div class=\"adin\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">The part of the collection you can touch<\/div>\n<h2>You can\u2019t fly the CH-47 Chinook.<br \/>These, you can.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"adp\">Some legends only live in museums \u2014 others are fuelled and waiting. 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alt=\"Lockheed F-104 Starfighter side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the F-104 Starfighter<\/b><span>\u201cThe missile with a man in it\u201d<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/mig-21-launch\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the MiG-21<\/b><span>The Cold War\u2019s most-produced jet<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/t-33-in-canada\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the T-33 Shooting Star<\/b><span>America\u2019s first jet trainer<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/vampire-flight-near-london\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"de Havilland Vampire side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the DH Vampire<\/b><span>A piece of early jet history<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/s-211-jet-flight-munich\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"SIAI-Marchetti S.211 side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the S.211<\/b><span>Agile Italian jet trainer<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/l-39-mb-326-jet-provost-in-italy\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"Aermacchi MB-326 side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the MB-326<\/b><span>The classic Aermacchi jet<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/mig-15-fagot-czech-republic\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the MiG-15<\/b><span>The Soviet legend of the Korean War<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\">See all flights &amp; prices<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section style=\"padding-top:44px\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Related Aircraft<\/div>\n<h2>More from the Military Aircraft Encyclopedia<\/h2>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"\/aircraft\/uh-1-huey\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Utility helicopter<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Bell UH-1 Iroquois \u201cHuey\u201d<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Vietnam-era workhorse that flew alongside the Chinook in the air-mobile Army.<\/span><span class=\"go\">View exhibit<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"\/aircraft\/ah-64-apache\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Attack helicopter<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Boeing AH-64 Apache<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The tank-killing gunship that escorts the assault and heavy-lift helicopters.<\/span><span class=\"go\">View exhibit<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"\/aircraft\/uh-60-black-hawk\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Utility helicopter<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Army\u2019s medium utility helicopter that carries the squad the Chinook supports.<\/span><span class=\"go\">View exhibit<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section style=\"padding:48px 0 64px\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Sources<\/div>\n<h2>CH-47 Chinook: sources &amp;amp; further reading<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"srclist\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boeing.com\/defense\/ch-47-chinook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boeing<\/a><span>Boeing \u2014 official CH-47 Chinook overview, variants and specifications.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Army<\/a><span>U.S. Army \u2014 service history, doctrine and operational use of the Chinook.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.army-technology.com\/projects\/chinook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Army Technology<\/a><span>Army Technology \u2014 detailed Chinook dimensions, powerplant, performance and variants.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/aircraft\/chinook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Air Force<\/a><span>Royal Air Force \u2014 the Chinook in British service, including \u201cBravo November\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/military\/systems\/aircraft\/ch-47.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GlobalSecurity.org<\/a><span>GlobalSecurity.org \u2014 CH-47 variant histories and programme background.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenmusa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Museum of the United States Army<\/a><span>National Museum of the United States Army \u2014 Army aviation history and the Chinook.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/airandspace.si.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum<\/a><span>Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum \u2014 context on rotary-wing aviation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MiGFlug Afterburner<\/a><span>MiGFlug Afterburner \u2014 the magazine behind this encyclopedia, on military aviation and jet flights.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"finenote\">Hero and gallery photography: U.S. Air Force \/ NASA, public domain. 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