Known as "Guardian Angel" on her last deployment to Afghanistan with the Washington National Guard, this CH-47D is on her last mission before going through phase and being sold through the FMS program. The unit is already receiving new-build CH-47F's.
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".
Usually a common sight around Yakima, I had not seen this particular C-12 around in a while, and now I know why. It was upgraded with the Common Missile Warning System and a Chaff/Flare dispenser on the back-right part of the fuselage.
Santa's Coal Delivery Vehicle this year, an MH-60M from the 4th Battalion, 160th SOAR (A) based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, stops by Yakima for some training.
An MH-60M from Charlie Company of the 4th Battalion gets ready to head out on infiltration/exfiltration mission with a group of "undisclosed customers" over the Yakima Training Center.
Crewmen from the 160th SOAR prepare an MH-60M from the Charlie Company of the 4th Battalion based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord for another mission on a dreary December day in Yakima.
MH-60M, Charlie Company, 4th Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) in town from Joint Base Lewis-McChord for some training around Central Washington.
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.
A combat veteran, Upupa Epops is now owned and operated by the Flying Heritage Collection, and is routinely flown in the skies above Everett, Washington in the summer months.
Another shot of the Viper on deck of the USS Essex docked in Elliot Bay before the beginning of the Parade of Ships as part of the 2014 Seattle Sea Fair.
Betty Jane comes in after a revenue flight during a weekend Free Fly Day at Paine Field in Everett. You can see several 787 Dreamliner tails in the background.