147003 CH-147 Chinook
first date: 10 March 1975 - Taken on strength
US serial 74-22060 assigned, never marked while with Canadian Forces. With 450 Squadron, CFB Uplands, Ontario. Detached to St. Jean, PQ to support Montreal Olympics security in summer of 1976. Took part in flying display at 1978 International Air Show, Toronto, Ont. Later with No. 447 (HT) Squadron at CFB Edmonton, Alberta. Took part in Canadian/US/RAF mountain flying exercise at Vernon, BC in September 1980. To CFB Gagetown, NB in June 1981 for Exercise RV 81 with this Squadron. Converted by Boeing to CH-47D from 1994, new US serial 93-0661, conversion number M.3661, new company number B725. Delivered to R. Netherlands Air Force on 3 August 1996, their serial number NL001, later D-661. Named "Red October", after a near "incident" during water landing trials. Operated by 298 Squadron. Supported UN operations in Ethiopia and Eritrea in 2001, and in the Former Yugoslavia in 2002. Still active January 2009.
last date: 7 January 1992 - Struck off, returned to US