66-19138

 

66-19138, Boeing Build number B-396, was a CH-47B helicopter. The U.S. Army acceptance date was 11 August 1967. 68-15825 accumulated 1,596.0 aircraft hours. At some point, through an unknown end date, 66-19138 was involved in the TAGS Program at the Ames Research Center for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), located at Moffett Field, California, and known as NASA 737. 66-19138 was part of NASA's Variable-Stability Research Rotor Craft project. The NASA CH-47 was equipped with a fly by wire control system and three different flight computers. On 9 October 1990, 66-19138 was inducted and converted to D model 89-00176. The last known location of 66-19138 was at Boeing during the conversion. Aircraft status: Converted to D model.

 

 

Pictured below is Boeing CH-47 Chinook 66-19138 working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We do not have much more than this in the way of information about the above aircraft, or other Chinooks that played a part in the research for NASA. If you have more information and would like to share it, please email us.

 

 

This aircraft was piloted by:

 

Your Name Here.

 

 

This aircraft was crewed by:

 

SP5 David M. Gorjup, FE/CE, 1976 - 1978.

 

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