Netherlands cleared to buy 17 CH-47Fs

Netherlands has been approved to buy 17 CH-47F helicopters, with customer unique post-modifications, by the U.S. State Department.

D-892 Grizzly 24 Boeing CH-47F Chinook RNLAF
By Alf van Beem (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said “the CH-47F aircraft will supplement and eventually replace the Royal Netherlands Air Force’s aging fleet of CH-47 helicopters.”

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