The Hill reports that US Army spokesman Jason Waggoner said that the service now has 59.5 percent of its Chinook helicopter fleet available to support missions and training after grounding the fleet late last month due to fuel leaks. Waggoner said that “though the number could fluctuate day to day, this number continues to increase daily with ongoing logbook records review and a standard leak-check maintenance procedure outlined in an Aviation Safety Action Message published” September 2.
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US Army Grounds Its Entire Fleet of Chinook Helicopters Over Risk of Engine Fires
Bloomberg reports that Army spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said in a statement that the service has “grounded its entire fleet of some 400 CH-47 Chinook transport helicopters after engine fires broke out on a few of them.”
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Netherlands Receives its 20th and Final Boeing CH-47F Chinook Heavy Lift Helicopter
FlightGlobal reports that on November 14, the Netherlands “received its 20th and final Boeing CH-47F Chinook heavy lift helicopter.” The Boeing Company “said it had delivered the final Chinook airframe to the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF), marking the conclusion of Amsterdam’s fleet upgrade programme.” Boeing H-47 program manager Ken Eland said, “These state-of-the art aircraft will significantly improve their defence and humanitarian assistance capabilities.”
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Boeing Selected to Deliver Five More MH-47G Block II Chinooks
Defense Daily reports, “Boeing [BA] has received a $240 million contract covering delivery of five MH-47G Block II Chinook heavy-lift aircraft for U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command (USASOAC), the company said on Thursday. Deliveries of the remanufactured MH-47G Block II…”
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