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    Airframe Family: Boeing-Vertol V-234 / H-47 Chinook
    Latest Model:Chinook HC.1
    Last Military Serial:ZA717 RAF
    Construction Number:MA029
    Last Civil Registration:N37056
    Compressed ID:Boeing-Vertol Chinook HC.1 sn ZA717...
    Latest Owner or Location:Newark Air Museum, Winthorpe, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 352.
    Boeing-vertol CH-47(352) MA029

    To Boeing Vertol Co, Philadelphia, PA with new c/r N37056 (BOEING-VERTOL CH-47(352), c/n MA029).

    23 February 1982

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n ZA717 as a Chinook HC.1.

    8 June 1982

    Civil registration, N37056, cancelled.
    Exported to United Kingdom.

    25 July 1989

    Crashed.
    RAF Mount Pleasant, Falkland Islands. Struck the ground and rolled over due to mechanical failure while hovering caused by the fitment on a rear transmission input pinion in reverse.

    To Cranwell.
    Instructional Airframe.

    To Newark Air Museum, Winthorpe, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England.
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    29 August 2021


    Photographer: Andrew Appleton
    Notes: Chinook HC Mk.1 ZA717 under restoration at the Newark Air Museum.
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