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Boeing Chinook (UK variants)
| Chinook | |
|---|---|
&sq=&lang=&file=File:18_SQUADRON_MOUNTAIN_TRAINING_MOD_45166839.jpg) Chinook HC6A of 18 Sqn RAF in 2020 | |
| General information | |
| Type | Transport helicopter |
| Manufacturer | Boeing Defense, Space & Security |
| Status | In service |
| Primary user | Royal Air Force |
| History | |
| Introduction date | 1980 with RAF |
| First flight | 23 March 1980 (HC1) |
| Developed from | Boeing CH-47 Chinook |
The Boeing Chinook is a large, tandem rotor helicopter operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF). A series of variants based on the United States Army's Boeing CH-47 Chinook, the RAF Chinook fleet is the largest outside the United States.[1] RAF Chinooks have seen extensive service in the Falklands War, the Balkans, Northern Ireland, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
The Chinook, normally based at RAF Odiham in England, provides heavy-lift support and transport across all branches of the British armed forces since the early 1980s.[2] The RAF has a total of sixty Chinooks in active inventory as of 2015.[3] In 2018, the UK issued a request to the United States to purchase sixteen additional rotorcraft.[4] The Chinook is expected to remain in RAF service until the 2040s.[5]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
raf_pagewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Great Britain: Parliament (2009). (RAF). p. 57.
- ^ "Final new-build Chinook HC6s delivered to UK RAF". 10 December 2015.
- ^ "United Kingdom – H-47 Chinook (Extended Range) Helicopters and Accessories". United States Defense Security Cooperation Agency. 19 October 2018. Archived from the original on 9 April 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
- ^ Baldwin, Harriett (7 December 2017). "Chinook Helicopters: Written question – 116751". UK Parliament. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
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