Aircraft reference
N949CH
CH-47D Chinook · Heligroup Fire
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Identity
- Mission
- Helicopter bombers
- Registration
- N949CH
- Mode-S address
- AD2ED1
- ICAO type
- H47
- Model
- CH-47D Chinook
- Manufacturer
- Boeing-Vertol
- Serial number
- 90-0205
- Operator
- Heligroup Fire
- Country of registration
- United States
About the Boeing CH-47 Chinook
Water-bombing helicopter
It uses a suspended bucket or an installed tank to take water from a nearby source and place short, precise drops, including in steep or confined terrain. Depending on its configuration, it may also move crews, equipment, or rescue teams.
What this type can do
The Chinook’s tandem rotors provide heavy lift for a very large bucket or tank. It can deliver high-volume water drops and then move large loads, equipment, or crews, making it both a suppression and logistics platform.
This describes the type’s usual firefighting capability; it does not prove what this aircraft is carrying or doing now.
The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a tandem-rotor helicopter originally developed by American rotorcraft company Vertol and now manufactured by Boeing Defense, Space & Security. The Chinook is a heavy-lift helicopter that is the second-heaviest lifting Western helicopter to the Sikorsky CH-53. Its name, Chinook, is from the Native American Chinook people of Oregon and Washington.
ICAO type · H47Flight history
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