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Final AAC AH-64E delivered

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Boeing have announced that the 50th and final AH-64E for the Army Air Corps has been delivered at Mesa, Arizona. A handover ceremony on 6th March 2025 attended by representatives of Boeing, British Army, AAC, MOD, D&ES marked the final delivery of this program. With the final helicopter to remain in the USA for trials […]

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AH-64E deliveries continue

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Following a hiatus in the delivery tempo, three more brand new Apache AH-64E Guardians arrived in the UK for the Army Air Corps on 24th July 2024. The previous delivery had been in November 2023, and this new batch (ZM738, ZM739, ZM740) was airlifted from Phoenix, Arizona to RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk by USAF C-5M Galaxy […]

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April Apache Dispersals

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April 2024 saw an additional number of the recently retired Apache AH1s being dispersed to different locations. Three Apache AH1s were moved by road from Wattisham on 18th April to the Army’s trade training facility at Lyneham in Wiltshire. These airframes will be used to help train the Army’s future aircraft engineers. Another pair of […]

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Apache AH1 retires

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25th March 2024 saw the retirement of the Army Air Corps Westland Apache AH1 fleet, as the new Boeing AH-64E Guardian v6 variant took over the role. A final flypast over many Apache related bases was carried out by a pair of Apache AH1s alongside a pair of AH-64Es. With well over 20 years of […]

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Apache AH1 fleet fate (March 2024)

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ZJ166 To CSP 02/2018, scrappedZJ167 To CSP 02/2018, scrappedZJ168 To CSP 03/2018, scrappedZJ169 To CSP 03/2018, scrappedZJ170 To CSP 24/07/2018, scrappedZJ171 Instructional use at WattishamZJ172 To CSP 22/05/2018, scrappedZJ173 To CSP 22/05/2018, scrappedZJ174 To CSP 13/12/2018, scrappedZJ175 To CSP 24/05/2018, scrappedZJ176 To CSP 24/05/2018, scrappedZJ177 w/o 04/09/2008, instructional use at WattishamZJ178 To CSP 09/09/2020, scrappedZJ179 […]

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Final 2023 AH-64E deliveries

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November saw the final pair of new AH-64E deliveries that are planned for 2023. On 15th November 2023 a pair of AH-64Es (ZM736 and ZM737) arrived at RAF Mildenhall by airfreight aboard a USAF C-5M Galaxy 87-0041 “Reach449”. These helicopters had been collected from Phoenix, Arizona which is near the Boeing AH-64 Apache factory at […]

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AH-64E declared ready

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The British Army has declared the first regiment to transition to its latest Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopter to be “ready for frontline” operations, the service announced on 23 October. The Army Air Corps’ (AAC’s) 3 Regiment passed its validation tests during Exercise ‘Iron Titan’, the British Army’s largest land exercise for over 20 […]

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ZJ177 to Wattisham

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Apache AH1 was roaded into Wattisham on 26th July 2023. It had previously been in use as a Battle Damage Repair Training airframe with 1710 NAS at Portsmouth Dockyard. Prior to this, this aircraft had suffered an accident in Afghanistan and had been removed from active service. ZJ177 History ZJ177 Images

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More AH-64Es delivered

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3 more new AH-64Es were airfreighted from Arizona into RAF Mildenhall today, 28th July 2023. ZM731, ZM732 and ZM733 arrived at Mildenhall aboard a USAF C-5M Galaxy, 86-0018 callsign “Reach795“. These will be handed over for Army AIr Corps use.

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664 Sqn AH-64E

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29th June 2023 saw 4 Regiment 664 Sqn take to the air in the new AH-64E from Wattisham with a flight by AA444 in ZM709.

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ZJ173 at Dishforth in 2004 ZJ187 at Wattisham in 2020 ZJ181 at RIAT Fairford in 2019 ZM706 on Wattisham approach ZM705 Airtest ZM706 returning to Wattisham

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