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Boeing Moving Forward On Special Operations CH-47G, CH-47F Chinooks

Gally Articola

Wednesday, November 6th, 2013

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Boeing [BA] is now producing eight CH-47G heavy lift Chinook helicopters for the Special Operations community. The total fleet will be 69 aircraft, with 61 delivered. The remaining eight will be the new build craft under the new contract. “It was a three-step process,” Mark Ballew, director of Business Development for Vertical Lift Tiltrotor & Cargo Helicopter Programs for Boeing, told Defense Daily at the Association of the United States Army annual conference Oct. 21. The first step was buying long-lead items for…

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