Boeing CH-47 Chinook - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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denben
N 10° 46.757 E 106° 41.556
48P E 685067 N 1192085
This Boeing CH-47 Chinook is displayed at the War Remnants Museum in HCMC, Vietnam.
Waymark Code: WME2NT
Location: Vietnam
Date Posted: 03/26/2012
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The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is an American twin-engine, tandem rotor heavy-lift helicopter. Its top speed of 170 knots (196 mph, 315 km/h) is faster than contemporary utility and attack helicopters of the 1960s. It is one of the few aircraft of that era, such as the C-130 Hercules and the UH-1 Iroquois, that is still in production and front line service with over 1,179 built to date. Its primary roles include troop movement, artillery emplacement and battlefield resupply. It has a wide loading ramp at the rear of the fuselage and three external-cargo hooks.
The most spectacular mission in Vietnam for the Chinook was the placing of artillery batteries in perilous mountain positions inaccessible by any other means, and then keeping them resupplied with large quantities of ammunition.
At its peak employment in Vietnam, there were 22 Chinook units in operation. Of the nearly 750 Chinooks in the US and Republic of Vietnam fleets, about 200 were lost in combat or wartime operational accidents.
Type of Aircraft: (make/model): Boeing CH-47 Chinook
Tail Number: (S/N): 6086
Construction:: original aircraft
Location (park, airport, museum, etc.): War Remnants Museum
inside / outside: outside
Other Information:: Not listed
Access restrictions: Not listed
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Visit Instructions:
Photo of aircraft (required - will be interesting to see if the aircraft is ever repainted or progress if being restored)
Photo of serial number (required unless there is not one or it is a replica)
Photo(s) of any artwork on the aircraft (optional but interesting)
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