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    Airframe Family: Boeing-Vertol V-234 / H-47 Chinook
    Latest Model:Chinook HC.4
    Last Military Serial:ZD982 RAF
    Construction Number:MA039
    Last Civil Registration:N37085
    Compressed ID:Boeing-Vertol Chinook HC.4 sn ZD982...
    Latest Owner or Location:Odiham Wing, RAF Odiham

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 352.

    To Boeing Company, Philadelphia, PA with new c/r N37085.

    30 January 1986

    Civil registration, N37085, cancelled.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n ZD982 as a Chinook HC.1.

    By July 1992

    Transferred to 7 SQN, RAF Odiham.

    By July 1992

    Markings Applied: FI

    18 July 1992


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day

    Circa 1993

    Transferred to 18 SQN, RAF Laarbruck.

    Circa 1993

    Markings Applied: BI

    24 July 1993


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Chinook HC.1, callsign Rafair 7 Charlie Eight Five, of 18 Squadron on display at the 1993 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    Circa 1994

    Converted to a Chinook HC.2.
    New construction number, M7019, assigned to the airframe.

    19 May 1998


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Chinook HC.2, callsign Zulu Two Zero Charlie, of 7 Squadron at RAF Odiham on exercise detachment to Carlisle in May 1998.

    Circa 2001

    Transferred to DARA, Fleetlands.

    Circa 2001

    Markings Applied: BI

    Circa 2004

    Transferred to 18 SQN, RAF Odiham.

    Converted to a Chinook HC.4.

    Circa 2015

    Transferred to Odiham Wing, RAF Odiham.

    Circa 2015

    Markings Applied: DF
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     Military Aircraft Markings by Howard J. Curtis
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     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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     Robert Nichols
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