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    Airframe Family: Boeing-Vertol V-234 / H-47 Chinook
    Latest Model:CH-47D Chinook
    Last Military Serial:91-00248 US
    Construction Number:B517
    Compressed ID:Boeing-Vertol CH-47D sn 91-00248 US...
    Latest Owner or Location:Summit Airport (EVY), Summit Bridge, Delaware

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a CH-47C.

    28 July 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 67-18547.

    August 1968

    Transferred to Director for Maintenance, 1st Army, New Cumberland Army Depot, PA.

    From December 1968 to August 1971

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

    From September 1971 to December 1971

    Transferred to Army Materiel Management Center, Vietnam.

    January 1972

    Transferred to 178th Assault Support Helicopter Company, Vietnam.
    Company named Boxcar.

    From February 1972 to February 1973

    Transferred to 62nd Aviation Company, Vietnam.

    March 1973

    Transferred to Army Aviation Systems Command, Saint. Louis, MO.

    From April 1973 to June 1973

    Loaned to NASA, Langley Research Center, VA.

    From July 1973 to June 1974

    Transferred to Director for Maintenance, 1st Army, New Cumberland Army Depot, PA.

    From October 1974 to December 1975

    Transferred to 179th Assault Support Helicopter Company, Fort Carson, CO.

    Transferred to California Army National Guard.

    By March 1992

    Remanufactured as a CH-47D.
    New construction number, M3397, assigned to the airframe.

    By 31 March 1992

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 91-00248.

    From Circa April 1992 to After July 2007

    Transferred to F Company, 106th Aviation (ARNG), Bartonville, IL.

    22 July 1995


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL

    Transferred to 1st Battalion, 168th Aviation Regiment (ARNG), AaJoint Base Lewis McChord, WA.

    By May 2016

    To Summit Airport (EVY), Summit Bridge, DE.
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     U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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