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    Airframe Family: Boeing-Vertol V-234 / H-47 Chinook
    Latest Model:CH-47D Chinook
    Last Military Serial:82-23780 US
    Construction Number:B501
    Compressed ID:Boeing-Vertol CH-47D sn 82-23780 US...
    Latest Owner or Location:Company F, 1st Battalion, 14th Aviation Regiment, Fort Rucker, AL

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    Dates

    Event

    1968

    Constructed as a CH-47C.

    18 June 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 67-18531.

    December 1970

    Transferred to 177th Aviation Company, Fort Benning, GA.

    December 1970


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Left side of the photo. Photographed at the maintenance area of Lawson Army Airfield, Ft. Benning, GA

    Transferred to 205th Assault Support Helicopter Company, Fort Benning, GA.
    Unit named Geronimos.

    30 September 1982

    Inducted into the CH-47D program.

    By February 1984

    Remanufactured as a CH-47D.
    New construction number, M3031, assigned to the airframe.

    23 February 1984

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 82-23780.

    By March 1987

    Transferred to 213th Aviation Company, Camp Humphreys, South Korea.

    By January 1999

    Transferred to Company F, 1st Battalion, 14th Aviation Regiment, Fort Rucker, AL.

    By 2005

    The dynamic components, such as the engines, power train, rotor system and portions of the hydraulic system, etc., were removed and placed on a new build airframe 03-03734 with remainder of airframe scrapped.
    For more information about this other airframe see this Airframe Dossier

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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Military Aircraft Serials of North America by S. Mitchell and A Eastwood
    Internet Sources
     Company H, 4th Battalion, 7th Aviation Regiment
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
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