I am looking for the full call sign and type of this Chinook. The number given to me by ATC was 08753, yet I can find nothing on this serial for CH-47s. I find the series it may be in 2007, since those numbers are close, but no cigar on the sites I've found.
Can anyone help me? The aircraft flew over my house today and I got some shots.
Glenn, I have pictures of a CH-47 04-08713 (F model I believe) that I took at Ontario, California (ONT) and could not find any information on it either. I even went to the Chinook site and sent them pictures and asked if they had any info and they advised they didn't. http://www.chinook-helicopter.com
I used it as my avatar for awhile
Checked today and no information available
Walt
If I had a chance to look at the CH-47 myself, I could get the full number. But it isn't parked where a controller can see it, and they didn't ask before it shut down. I have also learned as a controller that they often will not give that information. I'm thinking with that last four numbers it is probably and F model.
Glen,possibly 05-03753 (three and eight being easily misread) this is MH-47G 3-160TH SOAR,Hunter AAF,Savannah GA......best match i can find!
Last noted operational May 2011.
Ian
No, it wasn't read off the aircraft. That was the call sign given by the chopper pilot to the controller. I talked to the controllers when the bird flew over my house. (I still talk to them all the time).
I called the tower this morning and learned the CH-47 was still parked on the ramp from overnight and I went up to the airport and photographed it through the fence (I will download soon). New controllers haven't a clue. Big numbers on the tail they obviously couldn't read (I asked for FULL call sign and they gave me what the pilot said). The number is 08-08753. It isn't on the net anywhere that I could find, and From my position I couldn't get a specific model but I believe it to be a CH-47F
I called the tower this morning and learned the CH-47 was still parked on the ramp from overnight and I went up to the airport and photographed it through the fence (I will download soon). New controllers haven't a clue. Big numbers on the tail they obviously couldn't read (I asked for FULL call sign and they gave me what the pilot said). The number is 08-08753. It isn't on the net anywhere that I could find, and From my position I couldn't get a specific model but I believe it to be a CH-47F
Glenn, was the Chinook tan or dark green/black? Tan would be a Fox model, if it is a 160th bird (03-03753) which it could be, then it would be black with a few extras attached to it relative to a normal -47. Tan or black i guess will be the determining factor as to whether it is CH-47F 08-08753 or MH-47G 03-03753.
Actually, I guess I should have updated this. The following day a friend of mine who works over at Rockwell-Collins (he's their Director of Flight Operations) invited me to take a tour of the aircraft. I was able to have a thorough look at everything and talked to the crew. The aircraft was about two months out of the factory, but is indeed a CH-47F. Assigned to a Pennsylvania unit eventually, but Boeing representative were taking it places such as Collins for what-ever politicking they do :
Here are my photos: http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/08-08753.html
Actually, I guess I should have updated this. The following day a friend of mine who works over at Rockwell-Collins (he's their Director of Flight Operations) invited me to take a tour of the aircraft. I was able to have a thorough look at everything and talked to the crew. The aircraft was about two months out of the factory, but is indeed a CH-47F. Assigned to a Pennsylvania unit eventually, but Boeing representative were taking it places such as Collins for what-ever politicking they do :Here are my photos: http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/08-08753.html
hmm. what I dont get is if it was only 2 weeks out of the factory, why does it have an 08 serial? when I was deployed this past year, we had 09s on our pads at times as the newest year serials with 10th CAB, just before the Fox models were sent to germany for their transition there. all Fox models are re-serialed if they were previously D models and rebuilt, as about half are. so it wouldnt be an older serial. if it truly just came off the line, it would most likely be an 09, or possibly a 10 serial. i dont think any 11s are out. remember the first 2 of the serial for army/af aircraft signifies the FISCAL year in which they were ORDERED, not calendar year in which they came off the line, as some believe. even so, 08 is too old to be a new off the line bird. may have just came out of RESET, which would entail the addition of a few IR mods and such.
also interesting to hear it is going to a NG unit. I was under the impression that all of our Fox models were going to BIG army units first, and there are a few that havent gotten them yet, such as Korea, Kansas, and a few others, and i was under the impression no NG units were getting them until the big army units did.
Time out was about two MONTHS.
The serials are the FY of when the funds for that machine were appropriated, not when they were built. In the old days such as WWII, so many planes were being built so quickly that most likely the FY the money was appropriated was very often the same year they were built!
The aircraft was a new build, not a rebuilt D model, and the tail number is plain, as well as the testimony from the crew and the Boeing representative.
Time out was about two MONTHS.The serials are the FY of when the funds for that machine were appropriated, not when they were built. In the old days such as WWII, so many planes were being built so quickly that most likely the FY the money was appropriated was very often the same year they were built!
ok sorry i get the difference. my point, however, was that if there are 09 serials there right now that came out of the factory nearly 10 months ago, how is there an 08 serial that just 2 months ago came out of the factory?
It is all about when they start building that particular serial number. You are talking about government contracts here - they don't have to make sense!
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(I know - I worked for the government for 38 years!)
It is all about when they start building that particular serial number. You are talking about government contracts here - they don't have to make sense!:
(I know - I worked for the government for 38 years!)
lol alright ill take your word on it lol. ive worked on CH-47Fs from 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, and 09 : i guess the govt can always push one to the side.
then again there are sometimes different things too. we had a bird with us that was an 04 serial, but had only about 400 flight hours on it when it came to us. it had been shot down in Iraq a few years prior and had just begun flying again. we had an 07 serial with just over 1000 flight hours on it, for comparison. most our airframes were under 1000 though.
This one was being taken on some sort of tour. Since it came to Collins, it was probably something about new avionics which Collins supplies. Maybe the new avionics suite was the reason it was delayed? Was it a demonstrator? Who knows?
This one was being taken on some sort of tour. Since it came to Collins, it was probably something about new avionics which Collins supplies. Maybe the new avionics suite was the reason it was delayed? Was it a demonstrator? Who knows?
could definitely be something new with avionics, but doubt it was something full cockpit size. would have heard it from the pilots. i do know there are some more mods coming for the Fox in what they are calling a Block II upgrade, even though Boeing doesnt generally use the Block designators. could be part of that.
Well, the only things I know for sure is that it has an FY08 serial, it is a CH-47F, it is a new build having left the line "this spring" (quoting the Boeing rep), and it will be assigned to a Pennsylvania unit. This info came from the rep and the crew. So I guess we'll never know "the rest of the story."
