In mid 2025, exercise Pinion Storm has recently concluded. This large scale exercise saw the involvement of three AAC AH-64E squadrons from Wattisham, along with other UK and NATO assets, including from new NATO members Finland and Sweden. 14 AH-64Es from Wattisham were involved, and all had safely returned home by June 2025. ZM701 Departed […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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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 […]
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 […]
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
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.