89-00142

 

         

 

         
F Company - "Big Windy", 159th Aviation Regiment, unit decal, circa 2002.
Property of "Big Windy" - 2003.

 

         
89-00142, "Daffey's Delight" in Iraq, circa 2003.

 

          89-00142, "Daffey's Delight" in Iraq, circa 2003.

 

             89-00142, Boeing D model kit number M3296, was a CH-47D helicopter. The U.S. Army acceptance date was 26 March 1990. As of 22 June 1998, 89-00142 had accumulated at least 1,003.7 D model hours and 5,057.7 total aircraft hours. 89-00142 was a conversion from the original C model Chinook 67-18516. On 2 March 1989, 89-00142 was inducted into the D model program, converted, and initially scheduled for assignment to E Company -"Centurians", 502nd Aviation Regiment, United States Army Europe (USAREUR), located at Aviano Airbase, near Vincenza, Italy. At some point, and as of 1 January 2004, 89-00142 was assigned to F Company - "Big Windy", 159th Aviation Regiment, United States Army Europe (USAREUR), located at Giebelstadt, in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). At some point, 89-00142 was deployed to Iraq with F Company in support of the "War on Terrorism". As of 1 January 2002, this aircraft was 33.6 years old. As of 1 January 2004, the last known location of 89-00142 was in Iraq, assigned to F Company, 159th Aviation Regiment. Aircraft status: Flyable.

 

 

          89-00142 transports a wrecked MIG-21 in Iraq

 

 

         
89-00142 transporting a MIG-21 in Iraq.

 

             During December 2003, 89-00142 transports a wrecked MIG-21 from a field location about 100 miles west of Baghdad. With security provided by an AH-64 Apache helicopter, it took two days to rig the load, and about 5 minutes to fly it to a local compound.

 

         
89-00142 hovering in to picked up the wrecked Iraqi Mig-21.

 

         
The crew of 89-00142 during the MIG-21 transport mission.

             The crew during the mission (left to right): CW2 Joe "Fatass" Summerlin (PI), CW3 D.J. Watson (PC), SGT Mike Wooden (CE), SSG Christine (SI), SSG Chuck Nabors (FE), CPT James Fischer (OIC).

 

 

         
Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 508th Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, board a CH-47 Chinook helicopter for a counterinsurgency operation near Mangritae, Afghanistan.

             1 July 2005: Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 508th Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, board a CH-47 Chinook helicopter for a counterinsurgency operation near Mangritae, Afghanistan. Click-N-Go Here to see a larger version.

 

 

         
Crew Chief Jason Engel, SPC, and Flight Engineer Chuck Nabors, SSG, stand proudly in front of "Daffy's Delight".

             23 September 2005 - Above: Crew Chief Jason Engel, SPC, and Flight Engineer Chuck Nabors, SSG, stand proudly in front of "Daffy's Delight". Below, 89-00142 and crew pose for a shot that includes one of the old fortresses used by Genghis Kahn. Both photographs were taken in Bamyan Province in Afghanistan.

         
89-00142 and crew pose for a shot that includes one of the old fortresses used by Genghis Kahn.

 

 

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