Chinook Royal Air Force Full Display

The Boeing CH47 Chinook is an American twinengined, tandem rotor, heavylift helicopter developed by American rotorcraft company Vertol and manufactured by Boeing Vertol (later known as Boeing Rotorcraft Systems). The CH47 is among the heaviest lifting Western helicopters. Its name, Chinook, is from the Native American Chinook people of modernday Washington state.

The RAF Chinook fleet is the largest outside the United States.] RAF Chinooks have seen extensive service in the Falklands War, the Balkans, Northern Ireland, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

The Chinook aircraft, normally based at RAF Odiham, provides heavylift support and transport across all branches of the British armed forces. The RAF has a total of 60 Chinooks in active inventory as of 2018. In 2018, the UK issued a request to the United States to purchase 16 additional aircraft. The Chinook is expected to remain in RAF service until the 2040s.


This Video was filmed At RIAT Saturday 18 July and Sunday 19 july 2015