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India’s First CH-47 Takes Flight As Boeing Prepares For Massive Foreign Chinook Campaign

India’s First CH-47 Takes Flight As Boeing Prepares For Massive Foreign Chinook Campaign
CH-47F Chinook and AH-64E Apache. Photo courtesy Boeing.

RIDLEY PARK, Pa. — India’s first Ch-47F made its maiden flight July 23 from the Boeing flight line July 23 outside the factory where it builds the tandem-rotor heavylift aircraft for the U.S. Army and 19 other nations.Flying under an FAA experimental ticket and designated the first CH-47F(I), the helicopter is the first of 15 on contract under a direct commercial sale to India. The experimental ticket is a unique requirement of DCS aircraft and is indicated by the word…

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