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    Airframe Family: Boeing-Vertol V-234 / H-47 Chinook
    Latest Model:Chinook HC.6A
    Last Military Serial:ZA704 RAF
    Construction Number:MA016
    Last Civil Registration:N37033
    Compressed ID:Boeing-Vertol Chinook HC.6A sn ZA70...
    Latest Owner or Location:7 Squadron, RAF Odiham, Hampshire

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 352.
    Boeing-vertol CH-47(352) MA016

    To Boeing Vertol Co, Philadelphia, PA with new c/r N37033.

    1 October 1981

    Civil registration, N37033, cancelled.
    Exported to United Kingdom.

    Circa October 1981

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n ZA704 as a Chinook HC.1.

    By June 1990

    Transferred to 240 Operational Conversion Unit.
    Operated with markings: FJ

    By March 1993

    Converted to a Chinook HC.2.
    New construction number, M7006, assigned to the airframe.

    March 1998

    Transferred to 7 Squadron, RAF Odiham, Hampshire.
    Operated with markings: EJ

    17 June 2004

    Staging through Carlisle with 18 Squadron at RAF Odiham and radio callsign Bomber.

    17 June 2004


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson

    Transferred to Vector Aerospace, Fleetlands Heliport, Gosport, Hampshire.

    By 2007

    Transferred to 7 Squadron, RAF Odiham, Hampshire.
    Operated with markings: AM

    By 23 October 2009

    Civil registration, N37033, cancelled.
    Exported to United Kingdom.

    May 2014

    Converted to a Chinook HC.4.

    March 2019

    Converted to a Chinook HC.6A.
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    Peter Nicholson
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