The Heavy Lifter
A FORCE Report
The Indian Air Force (IAF), on March 25, officially inducted the Boeing Chinook CH-47F (I) heavy-lift helicopter into its inventory. Giving a significant fillip to the IAF’s strategic heavy-lift and tactical air-lift capabilities, the IAF’s first modern heavy-lift chopper was inducted at a special ceremony at Air Force Station Chandigarh where the Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal B. S. Dhanoa presided over as chief guest.
At the ceremony, the first four of 15 Chinooks, ordered from Boeing in September 2015, were commissioned into the IAF’s 126 Helicopter Uni
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