В конце 1972 года Южный Вьетнам получил 20 вертолетов CH-47A. Они служили до падения Сайгона. После этого их некоторое время использовали ВВС ДРВ, а в начале 1990-х годов - выставили на продажу.
A Chinook is shown here in the markings of the VNAF. At least 70 Chinooks were transferred from the US Army to the VNAF in Vietnam where losses suffered by both these services were high, approaching a combined total of 200.
One of the Boeing-built CH-47Cs supplied to the Imperial Iranian Army. A total of 95 was ordered by Iran prior to the revolution, of which Boeing had delivered 38 and at least 14 had been supplied from the Italian production line.
One of the four CH-47As originally supplied to Thailand; recent efforts to acquire additional Chinooks have been blocked by the Carter embargo on arms sales.
Among the overseas purchasers of the Chinook is Canada, which has acquired eight CH-147s for use by two of the Transport Helicopter Squadrons of the CAF.
20 мая 1982г.: вооруженные силы США получили первый вертолет Boeing Vertol CH-47D Chinook. Первыми эксплуатантами машин стали 101-я и 82-я воздушно-десантные дивизии.
The first of three YCH-47D prototypes photographed on the occasion of its roll-out in March.
A US Army CH-47C Chinook twin-engined medium transport helicopter
Boeing Vertol CH-47D Chinook
In the line drawing, the three views on the left depict the CH-47D with the wide-chord plastics rotor blades. The plan view upper right shows the commercial Model 234UT and the other three views depict the Model 234LR civil transport version.
An impression of the civil Chinook now under development, initially for British Airways Helicopters, showing the wider fuselage-side fairings that accommodate the enlarged fuel tanks.
Boeing Vertol 234LR Commercial Chinook; Boeing Vertol 234UT Commercial Chinook;
The Boeing Vertol 347 was a heavily modified CH-47A used for a number of research programmes. Featuring a longer fuselage and retractable undercarriage, among other special features, it is shown with the wing removed and a retractable capsule added for a load-controlling crewman, when being used to evaluate the fly-by-wire control system for the XCH-62 heavy-lift helicopter.
The Boeing Vertol 347 was a heavily modified CH-47A used for a number of research programmes. Featuring a longer fuselage and retractable undercarriage, among other special features, it is shown with a tilting wing fitted.
