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    Airframe Family: Boeing-Vertol V-234 / H-47 Chinook
    Latest Model:CH-47D Chinook
    Last Military Serial:87-00078 US
    Construction Number:B406
    Compressed ID:Boeing-Vertol CH-47D sn 87-00078 US...
    Latest Owner or Location:Company B, 1st Battalion, 126th Aviation Regiment (RNG), Stockton, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    1967

    Constructed as a CH-47B.

    6 September 1967

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 67-18436.

    November 1967

    Transferred to 355th Aviation Company, Fort Sill, OK.

    April 1968

    Transferred to Bell Helicopter, Fort Worth, TX.
    Bailment.

    May 1968

    Transferred to 155th Assault Helicopter Company, Vietnam.

    June 1968

    Transferred to 355th Aviation Company, Fort Sill, OK.

    July 1968

    Transferred to South East Asia Night Operations [SEA NITEOPS], Fort Belvoir, VA.

    August 1968

    Transferred to B Company, 159th Assault Support Helicopter Battalion, 101st Airborne Division, Vietnam.

    September 1968

    Transferred to 539th Transportation Company, Vietnam.

    June 1969

    Transferred to 178th Assault Support Helicopter Company, Vietnam.
    Operated with markings: Ole Daddy Rabbit
    Company named Boxcar.

    10 February 1970

    Damaged.
    Main rotor system and fuel system damaged by five hits of 7.62mm small arms fire; repaired in theater.

    20 January 1971

    Damaged.
    Main rotor system, oil system, transmission damaged by four hits from 7.62mm small arms fire; repaired in theater.

    June 1971

    Transferred to 271st Assault Support Helicopter Company, Vietnam.

    July 1971

    Transferred to 132nd Assault Support Helicopter Company, Vietnam.
    Company named Hercules.

    August 1971

    Transferred to 608th Transportation Company, Vietnam.

    September 1971

    Transferred to 132nd Assault Support Helicopter Company, Vietnam.

    October 1971

    Transferred to 608th Transportation Company, Vietnam.

    December 1971

    Transferred to Army Aeronautical Depot Maintenance Center, NAS Corpus Christi, TX.
    For overhaul.

    August 1972

    Transferred to Director for Maintenance, New Cumberland, PA.

    From July 1973 to After December 1975

    Transferred to 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, KY.

    9 February 1987

    Inducted into the CH-47D program.

    7 January 1988

    Remanufactured as a CH-47D.
    New construction number, M3197, assigned to the airframe.

    31 January 1988

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 87-00078.

    2 February 1988

    Transferred to B Company, 70th Transportation Battalion, Mannheim, Germany.

    5 April 1988

    Transferred to 205th Assault Support Helicopter Company, Finthen Army Airfield, Mainz-Finthen, Germany.
    Company named Geronimos.

    Transferred to B Company, 6th Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment, Finthen Army Airfield, Mainz-Finthen, Germany.

    From August 1990 to June 1991

    Deployed to Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm.

    September 1992

    Transferred to B Company, 70th Transportation Battalion, Germany.
    To prepare for shipment to Ft. Hood, TX.

    29 March 1993

    Arrived Port of Beaumont, TX. For reassembly and transfer to Ft. Meade, MD.

    1993

    Transferred to Fort Meade, MD.
    Underwent a thorough cleaning and Special Technical Inspection and Repair (STIR).

    19 August 1993

    Transferred to Aviation Support Facility, Fort Meade, MD.

    From 4 March 1997 to 22 July 1997

    Transferred to Corpus Christi Army Depot, NAS Corpus Christi, TX.
    For On Condition Maintenance (OCM).

    Circa August 1997

    Transferred to B Company, 4th Battalion, 123rd Aviation Regiment, Fort Wainwright, AK.
    Company named Sugar Bears.

    After April 2001

    Transferred to Company B, 1st Battalion, 126th Aviation Regiment (RNG), Stockton, CA.
    Company named Delta Schooners.

    23 June 2005


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA airport

    23 June 2005


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA airport

    23 June 2005


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA airport


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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Internet Sources
    Company H, 4th Battalion, 7th Aviation Regiment
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association

    Individual Contributors
    Glenn Chatfield

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