Boeing Chinook (UK variants)
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The Boeing Chinook is a large, tandem rotor helicopter operated by the Royal Air Force. A series of variants based on the United States Army's Boeing CH-47 Chinook, the RAF Chinook fleet is the larges
Chinook HC6A of 18 Sqn RAF in 2020
Cockpit view of an RAF Chinook on a training flight over Wales, 2009
Chinook HC1 of Royal Air Force, 1982
RAF Chinook HC2 in 2009
No. 7 Squadron RAF
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No. 7 Squadron is a squadron of the Royal Air Force which operates the Boeing Chinook HC6 from RAF Odiham, Hampshire. It is part of the Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing.
Boeing Chinook (UK variants)
…2010. This brought the total fleet size to sixty aircraft; as of 2009, the RAF had forty-eight Chinooks in inventory. On 6 June 1999, two Chinooks of No. 7 Squadron left RAF Odiham in Hampshire, carrying paratroopers to join NATO forces serving in the Balkans; six more arrived the following week in Kosovo to support…
No. 7 Squadron Short Stirling "S for Sugar" at RAF Oakington during the early 1940s
An RAF Chinook HC2 during 2008