US disposal of CH-47D’s

[NutLoose]

I don’t know if this has been seen, as the US moved over to the CH-47F the older D were Scrapped… what a waste.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anQnQgkh3io&t=382s

[SASless]

It just does not make a lot of sense....surely they have some value on Fire Fighting Contracts under a Restricted Category authorization.

[NutLoose]

Agreed, surely they could have been refurbished to F standard as well?

[evansb]

Federal government bureaucratic decisions are not based on logic nor financial propriety. Never have been, never will be. It has always been thus. Sad. Just sad. Amazon.com wastes even more on a near-daily basis.

[Davef68]

A large number were rebuilt to F standard, but that involved a new fuselage structure (so how much is rebuild is a moot point, but it gets approval faster!)

[PICKS135]

Not just the military. Was working in a covid test center. Government removed funding for the test centers at educational establishments. I asked if the £3million worth of kit was going to be given to the local NHS trust for use in NHS centers. Was informed that they had approached them, but they had refused them. Allegedly the logic behind this refusal - which I can quite believe - was if the local trusts took £3 million worth of kit from us, then come next year at budget time £3 million would be cut from the budgets. Thus that equipment is sitting a store waiting to go life ex, and then be destroyed.

[jpn crj driver]

When I was on active duty back in the late 80's most all the "D's" were refurbed A/B/C airframes... So many of the "D's" have a lots of wear and tear on the actual structures... Because the increased Gross weight of the D was much greater than the original A we did have stress fractures in some structural areas... New Airframes really have been need for quite some time...

[megan]

Would have made great caravans, complete with ramp for the runabout.


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[Old-Duffer]

I seem to recall that when Wildcat was replacing Lynx (whose barrel was supposed to form the basis of the rework), Leonardo made new barrels as it was cheaper and more realistic.
Old Duffer

[Cyberhacker]

I seem to recall that when Wildcat was replacing Lynx (whose barrel was supposed to form the basis of the rework), Leonardo made new barrels as it was cheaper and more realistic.
At least something was learned from the Nimrod MR2-->MRA4 upgrade

Upgrading manually metal-bashed fuselages with CAD/CAM exact modules is a recipe for failure...

[NutLoose]

I would have thought quite a lot of US museums would have loved one.