Chinooks in Spain

 

 

             2008: Pictured below is Chinook helicopter ET 407 assigned to the Spanish Army Airmobile Forces (Fuerzas Aeromoviles del Ejercito de Tierra - [FAMET]) Helicopter Transport Battallion V (BHELTRA-V). The Battalion, consisting of 17 CH-47D airframes, was deployed to Herat, Afganistan from November 2007 through November 2008, where they provided aviation support to Regional Command (RC) West.

 

 

          ET 407

 

 

         
Spanish CH-47D Chinook helicopter ET 407 operating in Afghanistan, circa 2008.

 

             Spanish CH-47D Chinook helicopter ET 407 operating in Spain. The photo was taken in November 2008 in the vicinity of Ciudad Real which is in the center region of Spain. Click-N-Go Here for a larger version of this image.

 

 

          ET 408

 

 

         

 

             Spanish CH-47D Chinook helicopter ET 408 operating in Afghanistan. ET-408 was operating in the vicinity of Herat in western Afganistan. Note the fuselage is painted in the desert camoflage pattern. Click-N-Go Here for a larger version of this image.

 

 

          The CH-47 - 40 years old and still circling the world.

         

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