Two 4th Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment MH-47G's sitting in the sun at Gray Army Airfield. Taken from a Washington Army National Guard Black Hawk.
An aggressive take-off by this 160th SOAR Chinook out of Paine Field. On this training flight, 03758 was accompanied by another MH-47G, as well as two RAF HC.6's and an MH-60M.
Cockpit area of an MH-47G Special Operations Chinook belonging to Bravo Company of the 4th Battalion, based at JBLM in Western Washington
*This shot was taken with the permission of the crew.
4th Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment "Night Stalkers", Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. Boeing MH-47G Chinook departing Paine Field after dropping off the display crew for the 2015 Paine Field Aviation Day.
After almost two weeks in Yakima for training, 03787 and her three sisters pull out and head back over the Cascade mountains to Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Fresh up from a re-fit in California, this MH-47G belongs to Bravo Company of the 4th Battalion of the 160th SOAR. It features the new cowling art of the company's moniker, "Evil Empire".
Left behind on this round, 03745 soaks up the last rays of the sun as two of his buddies head out to the Yakima Training Center range for live-fire drills.
This MH-47G, heading out just minutes before sunset on a life-fire exercise over the Yakima Training Center, was originally built as CH-47C 70-15029, and then remanufactured as an MH-47E, before being damaged in 2001 and re-built as an MH-47G.
Bravo Company, 4 Battalion, 160th SOAR(A) Nightstalkers, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. Bravo Company is named "Evil Empire" after Turbine 33, the MH-47 lost in Operation Red Wings (the operation made popular in the movie Lone Survivor).