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| Disposition of the CH-47D Helicopters |
| In service to the United States Army |
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| Big Windy's 88-00104 and Neuschwanstein Castle. |
| As of 14 June 2009, we had generally a good idea what became of most of the 444 D model Chinooks manufactured for the U.S. Army. Many of the details surrounding the demise of most of the known lost aircraft has remained a mystery. |
| This list does not include MH-47D model tail numbers. |
| Click-N-Go on an underlined tail number to read more about a specific Chinook. |
| Total Airframe Losses |
| 124 D model airframes have been lost due to accidents, mechanical failure, enemy fire, conversion to other models, sales to foreign governments or scrapped. |
| Accidents: | 18 |
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| Mechanical Failure: | 5 |
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| Enemy Fire: | 4 |
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| Prototype Conversion: | 2 |
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| F Model Conversion: | 1 |
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| G Model Conversion: | 41 |
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| Sold to Foreign Government: | 6 |
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| Scrapped: | 47 |
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| Total Losses: | 124 |
| Airframe Losses Due to Accidents |
| 18 airframes have been lost due to accidents. |
| --- Crashed at Boeing --- |
| On 7 July 1985, one airframe crashed during a company test flight while still at the Boeing facilities in Pennsylvania, details unknown: |
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| --- Crashed at Fort Stewart --- |
| On 9 April 1986, one airframe was lost in a mid-air collision with an AH-1 Cobra: |
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| --- Crashed in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) --- |
| On 4 December 1989, one airframe was lost due to an accident when it struck a ridgeline while operating in marginal VFR weather conditions with a sling load: |
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| --- Crashed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky --- |
| On 24 July 1990, one airframe was lost due to an accident when the sling load contacted the ground, forcing the aircraft to flip over and crash inverted: |
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| --- Crashed In Saudi Arabia --- |
| On 1 March 1991, one airframe crashed during Operation Desert Shield / Storm when it struck a tower: |
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| --- Crashed in Kansas --- |
| On 31 July 1994, one airframe was lost due to an accident when it hit high tension power lines, disintegrated, and fell into the Osage River: |
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| --- Crashed in Idaho --- |
| On 23 September 1994, one airframe was lost due to an accident when the rotor system struck the ground while the aircrew was attempting to land on a ridgeline: |
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| --- Crashed at Fort Hood, Texas --- |
| On 24 April 1995, five personnel were killed when one airframe was lost near Florence in Williamson County. The accident occurred as a result of the rotor system disintegrating during a maintenance test flight. A bushing was not installed in the aft swashplate during a maintenance procedure: |
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| --- Crashed in Afghanistan --- |
| On 28 January 2002, one airframe was lost due to an accident after encountering brown out conditions and subsequently suffering from a hard landing. The airframe was later destroyed in place: |
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| --- Crashed in California --- |
| On 29 May 2002, one airframe was lost in a post crash fire after attempting an aft gear landing on a pinnacle. The aft rotor system contacted the ground, initiating the airframe destruction: |
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| --- Crashed in Afghanistan --- |
| On 24 April 2003, one airframe was lost due to an accident after encountering an engine failure and subsequently suffering from a hard landing. The airframe was later destroyed in place: |
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| --- Crashed in Iraq --- |
| On 28 August 2003, one airframe was lost due to an accident after encountering brown out conditions and subsequently suffering from a hard landing: |
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| --- Crashed in Iraq --- |
| On 14 April 2004, one airframe was lost due to an accident after encountering brown out conditions and subsequently suffering from a hard landing: |
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| --- Crashed in the Republic of Alaska --- |
| On 20 April 2004, one airframe was lost when interaction between the airframe and terra-ferma became unavoidable: |
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| --- Crashed in Afghanistan --- |
| On 6 April 2005, one airframe was lost due to an accident after encountering adverse environmental conditions and crashed: |
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| --- Crashed in Iraq --- |
| On 22 May 2005, one airframe was lost due to an accident due to fuel exhaustion: |
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| --- Crashed in Iraq --- |
| On 2 July 2005, one airframe was lost due to an accident when it landing on a pad and the pad was ingested by the rotor system: |
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| --- Crashed in Afghanistan --- |
| On 5 May 2006, one airframe was lost due to an accident when it rolled off a ridgeline while transporting soldiers on the battlefield: |
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| Airframe Losses Due to Mechanical Failure |
| Five airframes have been lost due to mechanical failure. |
| --- Crashed near Chico, Texas --- |
| On 25 February 1988, while on a routine flight from Fort Hood, Texas, to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, one airframe was lost after suffering from an in-flight fire caused by the failure of the number two engine transmission and driveshaft. There were ten killed and eight burned: |
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| --- Crashed in Honduras --- |
| On 8 December 1988, one airframe was lost due to failure of the number one input pinion gear in the Combining Transmission. An inflight flight started which resulted in the loss of the flight control tubes in that area: |
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| --- Crashed in Saudia Arabia --- |
| On 11 January 1991, one aircraft was lost when the number two engine transmission failed in flight causing an in-flight fire: |
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| --- Crashed in the Republic of Alaska --- |
| On 10 October 1992, one airframe was lost when a small screw in an upper dual boost actuator failed due to hydrogen embrittlement: |
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| --- Rolled Inverted --- |
| On 11 April 1997, one airframe rolled inverted severely damaging the airframe, and was later utilized as a ballistic evaluation device at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland, and was eventually destroyed in a ground resonance incident: |
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| Airframe Losses Due to Enemy Action |
| Four airframes have been lost due to enemy fire. |
| --- Shot Down in Iraq --- |
| On 2 November 2003, one airframe was lost when it was shot down in Iraq: |
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| --- Shot Down in Afghanistan --- |
| On 25 September 2005, one airframe was shot down during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) while in Afghanistan, details unknown: |
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| On 4 December 2005, one airframe was lost when it was shot down in Afghanistan: |
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| On 30 May 2007, one airframe was lost when it was shot down in Afghanistan: |
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| Airframe Losses - Converted to F Model Prototypes |
| Two airframes were converted to F model prototypes (EMD or Engineering & Manufacturing Development aircraft) and sent to the Avation Technical Test Center, Fort Rucker, Alabama for evaluation and testing: |
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| Airframe Losses - Converted to Production F Model |
| One airframe was converted into the only D to F model Chinook remanufacture aircraft (more or less a concept test article - 03-08003: |
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| Airframe Losses - Converted to G Model |
| As of 14 June 2009, 41 D model airframes were converted to G model airframes: |
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| Airframe Losses - Sold to Foreign Government |
| --- 6 airframes were sold to Foreign Governments --- |
| 6 airframes were sold to Canada: |
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| Airframe Losses - Scrapped |
| As of 14 June 2009, 47 Airframes were scrapped during the F Production Process. The airframes were essentially stripped of useable dynamic components that were used on some new built F model Chinook helicopter fuselages and the old airframes were scrapped. Some of the usable components included the engines, transmissions, drive train sync shafts, rotor systems, hydraulics, doors, fuel pods, nose enclosures, avionics and some electrical items. The following airframes were scrapped: |
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| CH-47D Chinook Helicopters Sold at Auction |
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| In Flyable Service |
| --- To the United States Army --- |
| 315 D model Chinook helicopters were in service as of 14 June 2009: |
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