90-00185

 

 

Property of the Hook-ers, through 2003.

 

90-00185, Boeing D model kit number M3337, was a CH-47D helicopter. The U.S. Army acceptance date was 21 December 1990. As of 22 June 1998, 90-00185 had accumulated 862.5 D model hours and 3,953.5 total aircraft hours. 90-00185 was a conversion from the original C model Chinook 70-15009. On 12 January 1990, 90-00185 was inducted into the D model program, converted, and initially assigned to the Kansas Army Reserve on or about 4 January 1991. At some point, 90-00185 was assigned to Company A, 5th Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment, Washington Army Reserve. As of 1 January 2002, this aircraft was 30.7 years old. The last known location of 90-00185 was at Gray Army Airfield, Fort Lewis, in the State of Washington, assigned to A Company, 5th Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment. Aircraft status: Flyable.

 

 

Below, Chinook 90-00185 - A flight over Mount Rainier, Washington, with the Washington Army Reserve.

 

Shielding their faces from the sting of the ice and snow stirred up by rotor blades of the Chinook helicopter that had just deposited them there, a team of National Park Service rangers prepares to practice for high-altitude rescues. They're at the 9,000-foot level on the northeast side of Mount Rainier, at Camp Schurman.

 

 

The following article appeared in the Northwest Guardian on Friday, 8 June 2001:

 

 

 

 

This aircraft was piloted by:

 

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This aircraft was crewed by:

 

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